Ivan Lancaster Email & Phone Number

Kirkland, Washington, United States

Tacoma, Washington, United States

Worked on new cinematic content for Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed DLC.

• Designed and created sequences in Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed for Level Start, Level End, transitions, and Narrative Story using UE4.
• Worked with writers on a script, and designed narrative scenes for approximately 20 minutes of cinematics.
• Created storyboards and layout passes, basic posing of characters, and camera blocking for reference during motion capture.
• Directed motion capture sessions with actors and crew, onsite in Austin.
• Created and implemented in-game cinematic sequences with multiple actors, fx, props and cameras, from initial pass to final polish.
• Processed and authored in-game facial animations in FaceFX.

Tacoma, Washington, United States

• Designed and created sequences in Arcadegeddon for Boss and NPC introductions, Level Start, and Narrative Sequences using UE4.
• Established a cinematic style to fit different game features.
• Worked with writers and designers to develop story moments in-game.
• Developed cinematics from storyboards to animatics, and implementation to final, shipped cinematics in sequencer and blueprints.
• Built content for in-game conversations with NPCs, including cameras, dialog events, strings and level blueprints.
• Maintained a system of sublevels and sequencer bindings for streaming cinematic content.

Greater Boston Area

• Worked Remotely and Onsite to create procedural gameplay experiences in Judas, using blueprints in UE4.
• Designed and created in-game procedural gameplay moments, scripted rules and predicatesusing Blueprints.
• Created placeholder animations, fx, and sequences for various in-game story beats andnarrative moments.

• Designed, built and maintained systems to expand on the Nemesis System in Middle Earth: Shadow Of War and all DLC as part of the Realization team, using Monolith’s proprietary engine and tools.
• Created animations, cameras and staging of in-game cutscenes, from storyboards to final polish.
• Designed, built and maintained systems for the sequence of events from when player loses against enemy through to respawn (Pre-death Minigame, Savior, Humiliator, Death Taunt, Battle Reports, Resurrection).
• Directed Mocap and animated bipeds for procedural Nemesis Moments (Showdowns, Hype Man, Savior, Ambushes).
• Developed in-game procedural cameras to film combat moves, sync-action kills, Identify system, transitions from game to menus.
• Worked on character animation, camera framing and transitions for UI menus.

Kirkland

• Designed and implemented presentations in Middle Earth: Shadow Of Mordor and all DLC as part of the Realization team, using Monolith’s proprietary engine and tools.
• Animated bipeds using Mocap data, and implemented animations into game engine.
• Created facial animation for Orc and Human characters.
• Created in-game, procedural presentations that adhered to a cinematic language, using animated and procedural cameras, animation keystrings, and game database records.
• Animated and Sequenced events to interface the player to the Nemesis System in the Army Screen, that illustrated the evolving hierarchy of enemies through Battle Reports.

Greater Seattle Area

• Rigged and adjusted skin weights for various rigs including birds, quadrupeds and bipedal creatures in Maya.
• Animated entire character sets for pre-production on unreleased first-person fantasy game in Maya
• Animated in-game assets for Deerhunter game series.
• Developed prototype art for future reskinned Dragon Storm releases.

Greater Seattle Area

• Animated complete character sets, movement, social emotes, combos, supers, item interaction, and special moves for DLC content for Super Hero Squad Online, in 3ds Max.
• Retargeted and adjusted existing animation clips onto new characters in conjunction with CAT rigs and proprietary tools.
• Added content to game build using Unity game engine.
• Participated in and reviewed gameplay design for new characters and content.

Greater Seattle Area

• Animated combat, movement, emotes, and loops, on creatures, playable characters, NPCs, ambient life, and cinematics for Guild Wars 2 using Maya.
• Cleaned up and polished motion capture footage for playable characters, NPCs, and in-game cutscenes for unreleased Prototype.
• Intern of ArenaNet University, attended life drawing sessions, intracompany classes and talks, and guest lectures.

Perth, Western Australia

• Designed and created professional 3D presentations for mining, oil & gas, engineering and product design sectors. Worked individually and in teams on storyboarding, layout animatics, modeling, texturing, basic rigging.
• Delegated tasks, trained new staff, met with client executives and managers throughout production pipeline.

Diploma Of Advanced Character Animation, Animation

Diploma Of Screen, Animation

Bachelor Of Arts, Multimedia