Josh Dicarlo Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, CA, US

Los Angeles, CA, US

Burbank, CA, US

• Responsibilities
• Lead new character technology initiatives
• Directly contribute to the design of tools and pipelines
• Establish key relationships with related external partnersKey Contributions
• Built an industry first ML team specializing in the acquisition, generation and training of novel & synthetic data for character physique & deformation including cloth, anatomy & facial.
• Spearheaded physically-based character pipeline, facilitating transition from linear-blend skinning to scanning, physical simulation, and machine-learning.

Burbank, CA, US

• Oversee the Production & Character Technology goals for the Tech Anim team across active projects.
• Directly Responsible for Hiring & Professional Development on the tech anim team. Key Contributions:
• During this period, I led the development of the first fully physical and machine-learning based characters in an AAA Title (Miles Morales), where we built a highly anatomically accurate skeletal/muscular/skin system.
• Facilitated the transition of low-resolution skeletally based facial system on Ratchet & Clank to a more flexible and high fidelity morph-based system, used on all primary characters.

Vancouver, BC, CA

• Oversee the Production & Technology Development Goals for the Rigging Department Across all active projects
• Responsible for all hiring and professional development
• Responsible for staffing shows and working with my team of Rigging Leads & Supervisors to determine show-related production and technology needs
• Provide on-site supervision of Actor Acquisitions for body and facial performance capture
• Provide show-level supervision on specific projects when required
• Co-develop and maintain a variety of facility-level character setup and pipeline tools

Vancouver, BC, CA

• Supervise teams of up to 15 artists on both CG Features & Live-Action VFX
• Direct actors on set during facs (facial) & body scanning/acquisitions
• Create body & face rigs for hero characters in VFX & Feature Animation.
• Strong focus on physically based & FACS based rigging for VFX.
• Develop or assist in development of numerous key tools and workflows to simplify or automate rigging process.
• Author and maintain facility-level actor acquisition documents

San Francisco, CA, US

• Creature Setup/Rigging
• Cloth, Hair, Muscle, Flesh Sim Setup
• Creature Shot Finaling and simulation

Vancouver, BC, CA

• Facial rigging lead on a variety of projects
• Facial rigging/sculpting, consultation & support with emphasis on photoreal/vfx characters
• Body rigging for a wide variety of characters, creatures and props spanning animated features and vfx
• Emphasis on automating and streamlining workflow for complex character's and repetitive rigging tasks.
• Co-develop, maintain and support key facial rigging toolsets
• Contribute to maintenance and development of in-house tools, and various aspects of the rigging pipeline.

North Hollywood, California, US

• Classroom instruction on character rigging techniques in Maya.

St. Louis, MO, US

• instruct and assist in development of classes for computer animation majors.
• develop new courses for body and facial rigging

iClips Network was a startup and early competitor in the online streaming world. They focused on directing and streaming live musical events, which included numerous large concerts and festivals. Their parallel endeavors focused on the creation original content in a variety of mediums. The interactive/gaming division was a boutique spin-off focused on.

• character body and facial rigging
• character modeling
• animation

• 3D modeling and animation for motion graphics and product visualization
• video editing
• live videography

• Body & Facial Rigging.
• Modeling for characters and motion graphics.
• Video editing and videography.

Intern focused on computer-based graphics for print and web.