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Berlin, Germany

Barcelona Spain

Horsham, England, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Austin, Texas Area

For this position, I was head hunted by Screw Attack/Rooster Teeth Productions and asked to assist them with animating their upcoming fight scene. This later extended to working on the entire 4th season of their video series.What I did:. Working remotely, I produced 30 seconds of hand keyed animation for a fight sequence, whilst keeping to a strict deadline.. Produced over 2 minutes of Facial animation, as well as set up lighting and render setting using V Ray.. Sped up production by, Storyboarding, animating, lighting and choreographing section of the fight scene. whilst adhering to a script.

London, United Kingdom

In this role, I assisted with the development of a soon to be released VR Film.My responsibilities extended from planning mocap shoots, to rigging as well as produce convincing animation to compliment the story.What I did:. Quality assurance, by hand animating over mocap data.. Imported and stitched together animation in Unity.. Cleaned and retargeted body and facial mocap data.. Character rigging for body and facial animation.. Delivering Quality animations with quick turn arounds.

York, United Kingdom

In this role, it was my responsibility to assist in the development of 4 animated cut scenes of 14th century Canterbury Cathedral. My role also involved developing the centres 3D animation skills ultimately expanding the range of experiences and services they could offer to future clients. What I did:• Populated 4 large scenes with animated 3D characters, ranging between 5-25 characters per scene.• Cleaned, retargeted and edited motion capture data.• Rigged and skinned all 3D characters as well as built several custom facial rigs for facial animation.• Supervised the animation pipeline ensuring consistency between hand keyed animation sequences and motion capture sequences.

Gateshead, England, United Kingdom

Working at Hammerhead VR was an exciting opportunity where I learned about the world of Virtual Reality (VR). My role was to provide and implement fluid characters and vehicle animations for the Virtual Reality film teaser trailer called “Abduction” Using both Unreal Engine 4 and The Oculus Rift.This role involved:.Using “scrum" an agile methodology for project management..Researching the pipeline for producing animations for VR with an emphasis on providing animations that induced an emotional response from the player..Create a level plan and animations that adhere to the timing of a pre existing script and provided audio.Key Achievements:. Successfully produced animation within 3DS Max, exporting them into Unreal 4, for a VR Cutscene.. Assisted setting up the Blueprint and Matinee sequence Unreal Engine 4.. Volunteered assistance iin compositing VFX in Adobe After Effects.. Produced fluid character and vehicle animations.. Successful and Cohesive Project management.. Successful and cohesive Level planning.. Working in a professional development team.. Improved my hand keyed animation skills.. Developed a through understanding of the animation pipeline for VR.