Michael Ware Email & Phone Number

Nyc

Senior Character technical director at Framestore building humans, quadruped, creatures, props, vehicles, etc. for episodic and commercial content including Netflix - Avatar, Netflix - One Piece, Walking Dead - The Ones that Live, realistic Deer, Bear, Nerds (crowd usable character), Dragon (How to Train your Dragon style, Monstrous Nightmare), Fish, Train (path following with dynamic car shaking), etc, etc. All rigs built at an accelerated pace while maintaining feature quality usability. I'm also building tools in python 2.7and 3.0.

Created / modified hero level character rigs and simulated clothing with Houdini Vellum (used SOPs, CHOPs, TOPs, ROPs) to push the next level of Playstation 5 games. Processing machine learning data to use in ZivaRT. Setup the ZivaRT process pipeline as well as documented the process and created scripts to speed up the Ziva process. Explored using VFX style simulations in a fast-moving development cycle. Also worked with Havok setups.

Vancouver, Canada Area

Currently I am setting up sim muscle / flesh systems for Jurassic World 2. Previously I was rigging, setting up rigid / flesh / cloth systems as well as doing rigid destruction and shot work for Transformers 5. Prior to Transformers 5 I worked on cloth, hair, muscle, fascia and skin simulation shots for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2.

Vancouver, Canada Area

Setup Maya nCloth character garments as well as rigged cloth props using nCloth, nHair and nParticle. Simulated cloth, hair, fur, muscle and skin shots in Maya for Alice in Wonderland 2.

Glendale, Ca

Setup character rigs building faces and bodies for bipeds, quadrupeds, birds, props and automobiles. Coded automated character building systems as well as created rigs on the fly for special characters. Coded in Perl, Mel and Script. Worked with both proprietary and Maya computer graphic software. Worked on Kung Fu Panda, Over the Hedge, The Bee Movie, Monsters vs Aliens, Shrek 4, Puss in Boots, Rise of the Guardians, Peabody and Sherman, Home and Puss in Boots 2. Received credits for all the above except Kung Fu Panda and Puss in Boots 2.

Greater New York City Area

Modeled, Rigged and Animated characters for commercials. Worked on projects including Pepperidge Farms Gold Fish, Skittles and ATI's Ruby.Rigged and animated the goldfishhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBDWLM2AphARigged the ninja(s)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-gEaDa8HWY

Greater New York City Area

Designed, modeled and rigged the two talking sperm with fully rigged faces in 8 days. The short ended up in Siggraphs Electronic Theater the year it was relased.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tyt6WSCUWAI

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Used HTML, JavaScript, ASP, PHP3, Cold Fusion and SQL to build and maintain online fundraising web site. Updated system with new clients as well as maintained and added new functionality to the system.

Fredrick, Md

Led company Internet technology efforts by: specifying technology and creating budgets for client web sites. Ran company’s network as well as trained designers on capabilities and limits of web technology. Worked on the following projects: Discovery Pictures Site – Wildfire Umpf CO2 Media Intranet and Extranet

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Used HTML, JavaScript, DHTML, and CSS to build and maintain various web sites. Led teams in the creation of a web site as well as joined various teams mid-project to ensure timely completion of a site. Worked on the following sites: Conservation International Mayo Clinic Nissan Haagen – Dazs First USA Mattel – Matchbox Cars Kelloggs Level3

Mfa, Computer Animation

Enginerring And Managment Bs, Mechanical Engineering