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San Francisco, CA, US

Acting at the sole remote animator for the entire project starting in Nov '22, I Created a trailer cinematic with full character and camera animation without any storyboards, that was used as the reveal trailer for the game which had over 1M views across multiple channels. Made over 100 different emotes, victories, kill cam sequences in and out of vehicles.

Troy, NY, US

Internal Engine experimentation: Crafted dozens of hand keyed animations for player vs player and player vs enemy attack and locomotion sequences. Collaborated with gameplay designers and programmers to deliver the most engaging and best looking results in a custom built engine.Unannounced AAA Fantasy RPG: Co-dev onboarding to learn proprietary systems.

San Rafael, CA, US

Worked remotely Animating characters interacting with objects for victory screens, as well as in vehicle car interactions and emotes. Victory animations include props and small cinematic sequences showing the most personality possible.

I was responsible for all 3d animation in all of Soundfall as well as 80% of the final level design (more on that below). This animation includes all heroes, enemies, bosses, and environments. As I was the only animator, visual direction was mostly my call to make, based on design and gameplay requirements. All characters in Soundfall are animated to a.

Pawtucket, RI, US

Hello Pinkie Pie: Animated Youtube series: Worked as a character animator to create shots used in web shorts. Primarily worked with a VO track and storyboards, with a lead animator providing high level oversight and final sign off. Animations included character, prop, and camera work. Rate of production was 30 or more seconds per week.Mr. Potato Head.

Richardson, Texas, US

Assisted remotely animating a character for help on the new card game Riot was making. This was a very constrained isometric camera which made it so animating normally from the perspective view was not possible. Characters needed to be scaled in size to fake moving closer to the camera, limbs broken to create better posing from the viewed angle and so on.

Responsible for establishing tone and style of game animations while working directly with the dev team for a two projects: Alliance Heroes of the Spire, and an Unannounced project. This includes a overall stylistic choice as well as meetings with the designers on a per character basis.Reviewed and managed two outsourcing studios for in game asset.

Sausalito, CA, US

Created 24 unique character suites based on the Android mascot, to be viewed in Augmented Reality for display at a google event in Barcelona

Fremont, California, US

Worked as Lead Character Animator to created cinematic and in-game animations based on a VO clip and design descriptions. Also Lead and mentored a team of about 3 other brand new Jr. animators to teach them how to deliver a higher standard and create game ready assets in a very short amount of time of 2 weeks before going into full production.

Vancouver, Washington, US

Worked remotely as Lead Character Animator to rework and then come up with the 1st and 3rd person animation style of the game. This involved meeting with other departments, coming up with designs and actions, as well as pipeline discussions and state machines. A previous version of the game existed before my involvement, we had to revise and often times.

Cary, NC, US

Remote Character animator for 1st and 3rd Person animations. Primarily taunts and locomotion. Started out originally as unpaid community work, but was hired on for an 8 month contract after the team sought to utilize my skills on a larger scopeSoftware used: Maya, Unreal Engine 4.

Foster City, CA, US

Using 3dSMax and CAT I work on the SHSO team as the only in house animator on staff. We produce about 1 character with 70 animations per month internally. These animations range from emotes to combat and locomotion. My job revolves around using the assets we have from our other 100+ characters to cut down on that work load, and create custom animations.

Cary, NC, US

conceptualization of character animation ideas, assisting the community by writing documentation so others could contribute to the project.

Animation of characters as well as cameras and layout

New York, NY, US

Social games projects:Creating 3d rigs and animation within Maya 2011Illustration and Flash animation

Redwood City, CA, US

The Sims Medieval, The Sims Medieval EP1: Character animator Software used: MayaProject outline: As a character Animator for both the Sims Medieval and it's first Expansion Pack, I was talked with creating in game animations involving character, creature, and object interactions, loops, locomotions, and state machines.Sims 4: Character animator Software.

San Francisco, CA, US

Animating Characters, objects, and cameras for various medical videos

San Francisco, CA, US

How to Train Your Dragon: Character animator on pre-rendered cinematicsSoftware used: MaxProject outline: As a character animator on this project, I was responsible for animating a main character: Stoick, Background crowds, and as well as Ruffnut and Tuffnut who were cut. Biped animation with full lip-sync and acting, totaling about 1 minute and 30 seconds.

Redwood City, CA, US

Sims 3: Character animator for a Sims 3 Web AdvertisementSoftware used: MayaProject outline: This was a short week long project where I was tasked to animate 2 of the 5 characters in a web advertisement. I took on a 3rd character when I spoke with the art director and we agreed it needed cleanup and improvement.

San Francisco, CA, US

Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2: Director on 2 pre-rendered cinematicsSoftware used: MaxProject outline: I was lead on two cinematics, one being the biggest and longest one of them all. As lead, my responsibilities are the same as Xavier listed below. It is a similar project and as such, the responsibilities are the same. The main difference between the two is.

Spiderman Web of Shadows: Character animator for in game animations and in game cutscenes.Software used: MaxProject outline: On WoS I worked in the first few months doing in game animations. There was no specific assignments for my tasks, just “what ever is needed at the time” Be it Spiderman animations or enemy hit reactions, and everything in between.Mid.

San Francisco, CA, US

Xavier: Renegade Angel: Lead on episode 1 and 7. Assistant animator on 3 and 9.Project outline: As Lead, I was responsible for the entire 11 minute episode. That meant I had to act as Animation director, approving work from the team as they were shown to me, as well as assigning shots out to other coworkers. I also had to approve all sets, effects, and.

For Gunshop, I primarily had to animate four 20 second commercial spots dealing with a gumby-like 3d character. But was also tasked with modeling, texturing, and lighting.

Emeryville, CA, US

The Incredibles CD ROM Game: Lead Animator for required pre-rendered game animations. Also served as TD, Render Manager, Level Designer, Fallback modeler and texture artist, and Bug Tester.Software used: MayaProject outline: Started on the project at the very beginning, including preproduction. Main duties were to do character animation, however as listed.

Whirl Tour: Animator on cinematics for Papaya Studios using character studio. Project outline: Started on the project in the middle of production. First real industry job, only consisting of minor 1 character shots at first, but then being assigned full scenes after proving competency.Rise to Honor: Lead Animator dealing with Motion Capture Blending and.

Associate'S Degree Computer Animation, Computer Animation

Associate'S Degree, Computer Animation