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Los Angeles, California, United States

Rigging hero characters, digital stunt doubles and costume replacements for Marvel movies:- Spiderman: No way home (costume replacement for Green Goblin, Peter Parker, Spiderman)- Thor: Love and thunder (costume replacement for Thor)-upcoming Guardians of the galaxy 3 (work in progress)

Los Angeles, California, United States

Universal Theme Park, Orlando FL - Harry Potter ExperienceMotion of life size animatronic robots for Harry Potter ride - developing technology for conversion of motion capture data from recorded actors into virtual motors data inside Maya; which is then transferred into real world robots to capture nuanced motion of actors. Challenges required developing rigging system with rotational and velocity limits per motor in each limb, that reflect design of existing and proposed robots - while keeping realism and emotion captured from actors.

Los Angeles, California, United States

Rigging various characters for BrawlStars, FisherPrice, MountainDew, Vistaprint projects. Emphasis on realistic human faces needed for MountainDew commercial, which required detailed close-up performance within critical time schedule. As facial rigs were fully scripted, I am focused now on offering fully developed realistic facial rigs within reasonable timeframe – as market needs keep growing.

Los Angeles, California, United States

Managing postproduction of shots for tv series for HBO and NBC, working between head VFX supervisor and multiple vendors on bidding, scheduling, producing and quality control of shots. Challenges included providing high end quality in extremely tight timeframe for season release which was pushed a month ahead of planned. Also providing Hollywood organizational skills to European vendors which had great artists but required management help in high end production environments.

Montpellier, Occitanie, France

Disney/Pixar "Monsters at Work" animated series for Disney+Responsibilities: Building faces and bodies for primary and secondary characters for upcoming streaming series based on Monsters Inc. franchise. Developed body deformations system that supports full range of motion and applied it to most of the characters. Disney asked for full feature quality on an animated series so main challenges were to achieve highest quality of deformations that are portable to multiple characters in a reasonable time frame.

Los Angeles, California, United States

Working on various and diverse high end projects including tv commercials; game trailers; characters for mobile app development; sequences, fantasy creatures and digital doubles for live action movies; characters for Unity environment. Companies include: Disney Imagineering, Burbank; Mirada, Marina del Rey; Psyop, Venice; Atomic Fiction, Oakland; BaconX, Copenhagen; Ghost FX, Copenhagen; Kevin LLC, Venice; Imaginary Forces, Los Angeles.Responsibilities: Usually primary rigger maintaining faces, bodies and pipeline for characters, often managing post animation effects such as cloth and muscle sims as well, scripting most of the work in Mel and Python for easy rebuilding and model changes, working closely with animators for best performance of characters.

Cologne, Germany

Responsibilities: Design of rigging course and online teaching.

Greater Los Angeles Area

“Kung Fu Panda 2”, “Puss in Boots”, “Rise of the Guardians”, “Turbo”, “Bureau of Otherworldly Operations” (canceled). Responsibilities include rigging bodies and faces for feature quality characters, working on character pipeline, rigging cloth, dynamic hair, crowds, props etc.

"The Tale of Despereaux" feature animation - Body deformations for CG charactersResponsible for development of body deformations system and pipeline, while rigging most of primary characters – skin rigging, clothing rigging, crowd variations etc.