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Animation Direction, overseeing animation/technical animation team and outsource. Responsible for animation quality, animation pipeline, animation blueprints, state machines, and animation implementation in Unreal 4 and 5.PROJECT: Unannounced SciFi RPG. Video Game for PCSOFTWARE: Maya, Unreal

Animation Direction, Previz, Animation, Skinning, Rigging, Engine Implementation, Pipeline and Scripting.PROJECT: Swashbuckler. Royal Caribbean’s 4D Virtual Reality GamePROJECT: A Flood of Reality. 4D Virtual Reality Motion RideSOFTWARE: Maya, MotionBuilder, Unreal, Unity

Responsible for one of two main player character's rig, animations and implementation and multiple creatures. Unified Unity and Unreal animation pipelines. Rearchitected state machines on characters of a live game. Developed modular characters and gear. Developed tangent based rubber hose arms/legs rigs.PROJECT: Wildcard. Video Game for PCPROJECT: Creativerse. Video Game for PCSOFTWARE: Maya, Unreal, Unity, Proprietary Software

Animation Direction, overseeing animation/technical animation team and outsource for 3 concurrent games. Responsible for animation quality, animation pipeline, state machines and animation implementation in Unity. Developed squash and stretch modular rigs, animation retargeting and export tools.PROJECT: DungeonBoss. Video Game for iOS and AndroidPROJECT: Unannounced Title. Video Game for iOS and AndroidPROJECT: Anvil. Video Game for iOS and AndroidSOFTWARE: Maya, Unity, Proprietary Software.

Responsible for most town NPC and vendor animations, state machines and implementations. Responsible for a subset of mini bosses, cinematics and traversal animations using hand keyed and motion captured animations. Developed procedural lipsync and gesture system animation tools. Developed modular auto-rigger. Developed matrix based pose and mirror tool.PROJECT: RAGE. Video Game for Xbox 360, Playstation 3, and PC- Animation, Skinning, Rigging, Engine Implementation, Pipeline and Scripting.PROJECT: DOOM. Video Game for Xbox 360, Playstation 3, and PC- Animation, Skinning, Rigging, Engine Implementation, Pipeline and Scripting.SOFTWARE: Maya, Motion Builder, idTech5, Proprietary Software

PROJECT: Unannounced First Person Shooter. Video Game for Xbox 360 and Playstation 3.- Character Animation and Supervision. Motion Capture Animation and Supervision. Character Rigging and Supervision. Animation Pipeline Design. - MEL Scripting: Animation Pipeline, General Pipeline Tools.PROJECT: Stuntman: Ignition. Video Game for Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and Playstation 2.- Character Animation and Supervision. Environment Animation. Created Character Rig. Created Vehicle Damage Rig. - MEL Scripting: Character Rigging system, Vehicle Shader Preview & Export Tools, and other various General Pipeline Tools.SOFTWARE: Maya, Motion Builder, Havok Behavior, Proprietary Software

PROJECT: Kung Fu Panda Interstitials. http://www.kungfupanda.com/- Rigged cartoony Viper snake body. Various small tweaks and cleanup on the other characters.SOFTWARE: Maya

PROJECT: Terminator 3: Redemption. Video Game for Xbox, Playstation 2 and Gamecube.- Animation for In-Game and Cinematics. MEL Scripting and Pipeline Optimizations.PROJECT: Dungeons & Dragons: Dragonshard. Video Game for PC.- Character Animation (outsourced).SOFTWARE: Maya, Proprietary Software

PROJECT: Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick. Game Cinematics for THQ for Xbox and Playstation 2.- Character Animation.SOFTWARE: Lightwave, Maya

PROJECT: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. TV Commercial for Electronic Arts’ Harry Potter Game.- Character Animation.PROJECT: "I'm Still Here" by John Rzeznik of the Goo Goo Dolls. Theme song from Disney's feature film Treasure Planet. Music Video.- Animation, Scene Setup and Compositing.SOFTWARE: Lightwave, Messiah

PROJECT: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Feature Film.- Character Animation.SOFTWARE: Maya, Proprietary Software

Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

PROJECT: Scottish Power. TV Commercial.- Supervised a team of 7 artists. Animated most hallway shots. Responsible for Layout, Shot Breakdown and Edit.PROJECT: Famous Grouse Finest Scotch Whisky. TV Commercial.- I Wrote and Directed this ad. Supervised a team of 6 artists. Animated cartoony bird and camera.PROJECT: Head to Head with Britney Spears. Half hour TV Show.- Supervised 6 animators and Animated the CG host of the show with full facial animation.PROJECT: James Bond '007 Racing'. Game Cinematics for EA Games for the Playstation.- Supervised animation. Facial Setup and Animation on James Bond. Animated vehicles. Responsible for Shot Breakdown and Edit.PROJECT: Alone in the Dark IV. Game Cinematics for Infogrames for the PC & Playtstation.- Facial Setup and Lipsynch on 6 characters. Character and Camera Animation. Responsible for Shot Breakdown and Edit.SOFTWARE: Lightwave, Magpie, Digital Fusion, Premiere, Proprietary Software, XSI, Maya.

PROJECT: Roger Corman's Nightfall. Feature Film.- Responsible for taking individual shots from storyboards through to final composite, including modeling, texturing, lighting, rigging, animating, rotoscoping and compositing.PROJECT: Black Scorpion. Episodic TV Show.- Responsible for taking individual shots from storyboards through to final composite, including modeling, texturing, lighting, rigging and compositing.PROJECT: Players. CG Series Pilot.- Responsible for lipsync, character animation, some rigging and mocap.SOFTWARE: 3D Studio MAX, Digital Fusion

Bfa, Computer Animation

Certificate Of Achievement, 6.00X: Introduction To Computer Science And Programming, 94%

This was a course of study offered by MITx, an online learning initiative of The Massachusetts Institute of Technology through edX.org.