Mark Jackson Email & Phone Number

Leicester, Gb

Loughborough, United Kingdom

Red9 Consultancy offers cutting edge production tools, rigging systems, bespoke workflows and support to the animation industry. Ever thought your studio or production could be working faster, better, more streamlined or efficiently but don't have the man-power, experience or R&D team to do anything about it.... that's where we come in.Red9 is already supplying state of the art pipeline solutions, rigging and facial systems to some of the largest film and game studios around the world. Our open-source StudioPack is expanding rapidly, gaining a huge user-base across the animation industry and recently becoming the only Maya App on the Autodesk Exchange site to be fully certified by Autodesk.

Nottingham

Deep Silver acquired the Crytek UK studio and Homefront IP in 2014, I continued to push the animation tech and facial systems from the same desk but under a new company, Dambuster Studios. I also set-up Red9 Consultancy at the same time and continued to push both aspects of my work life hard. Homefront is released on May17th and I'm proud of how things turned out. You have to remember when playing it that all the generic facial, and much of the interactive scene facial was auto-generated by back-end lipSyncing and expression systems written in-house.... and that covered 6 languages, churning out updated lipSync on a nightly basis.

Nottingham, United Kingdom

What is it I do... kind of hard to explain, I design and supervise the Maya based animation pipeline across multiple studios with the help of my counterparts in the UK and Frankfurt. This is an ever growing beast, spanning all aspects you'd expect from a modern animation setup in a AAA studio. It's great to be involved in such an ambitious project with the challenges of syncing code and design between multiple studios, but it's a hell of a ride. For the last 8 months I've been deep in facial systems, writing a new facial core from the ground up for the current project, looking forward to finally seeing the hard work pay dividends. I think facial sorts the men from the boys, at the moment I feel like a teenager!Oh and I write the Red9 Studio Pack in what little spare time I get.

Responsible primarily for the design & development of the animation pipelines for all Eurocom's games teams. This has included tools for procedural Maya rigging, animation re-targeting, character toolkits, BatchExporters and a huge list of supporting tools. Along with a number of key members of the R&D department I’ve also pushed the development of our internal facial MoCap tracking pipelines.

Responsible for the pre-rendered title sequences / FMVs that headed the games developed by the company. Vanishing Point was released in March 2001 for PS2 & Dreamcast. I was also responsible for the design of the 'Vanishing Point' logo, box artwork and press renders.

Responsible for all 3D animation undertaken by the company as well as a high percentage of Quantel Harry / Paintbox effects compositing. Work varied from high profile TV Commercials for the likes of Nintendo and Pepsi to Title sequences and In-Show graphics. I was always involved from the outset of projects, advising clients on budgets and techniques to achieve the effects required.