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Nick Burkard Email & Phone Number
Technical Artist Lead
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Meta
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@disneyanimation.com
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Nick Burkard is listed as Technical Artist Lead at Meta, based in Glendale, California, United States. AeroLeads shows a work email signal at disneyanimation.com and a matched LinkedIn profile for Nick Burkard.
Nick Burkard previously worked as Technical Art Lead at Meta and Technical Artist at Meta. Nick Burkard holds Bachelors, 3D Animation/ Time Based Media Studies from Columbus College Of Art & Design.
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My Goal is to work with a group of individuals who share a passion and commitment to quality animation. A self motivated autodidact driven by personal improvement and team involvement, my interest is to bridge the gap between the artistic and technical.Specialization: Rigging, Character Setup, Cloth/Hair/Fur simulation/development, pipeline and tool developmentnburkard@me.com
Listed skills include Maya, Visual Effects, Houdini, Rigging, and 10 others.
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16 roles · 14 years
Nick Burkard work experience
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Technical Artist
CurrentWorking on the Avatar Team at Meta to bring to avatars in the metaverse to life
Jan 2022 - Present
Head Of Technical Animation
Sep 2020 - Jan 2022
Technical Animation Supervisor
Technical Animation Supervisor of Wreck it Ralph 2 and previously of Zootopia
Nov 2013 - Jan 2022
Character Td
Feb 2013 - Jan 2022
Dec 2019 - Jan 2020
Dec 2017 - 2018
2017 - 2017
Hair/Fur Lookdev/Fx Artist
Worked on various commercial projects for Duncan in the capacity of either grooming artist, hair simulation artist or fx artist
2013 - 2017
~4 yrs
Character Fx Artist
As a Character FX artist, I've specialized in development of Houdini fur simulation and finaling workflows, hair simulation setups, cloth garment setups, mass crowd cloth setups, plant simulations and streamlining workflows for our department. I've also created tools used in our department across multiple shows and multiple DreamWorks locations. These tools include automated garment grading systems to adjust garments to differing generic character scales and proportions, Maya cloth simulation wedging and cache management interfaces, Houdini wire solver constraints to aid in the simulation of "clumped" styled hair and other pipeline based scripts that aid the artist in retrieving things from a convoluted pipeline. My current leadership roles include the overview of Houdini software deployment in the CFX pipeline, communicating with SideFX developers, training my peers to use Houdini and testing new software/creating new worklflows and tools inside of the software.
Feb 2010 - Feb 2013
Mentor
During this project I was a mentor to a sideFX intern and guided him through creating a hair pipeline from styling to rendering inside of Houdini.
Jul 2012 - Nov 2012
Character Rigger
Psyop
Rigged a breaking ballerina for a Terry's chocolate orange commercial in maya.Developed a muscle system and rig for a tap dancing cow in maya.
Dec 2009 - Jan 2010
Technical Director
Technical Animator responsible for hair,cloth simulation, and technical scripting on films such as:"Alvin and the Chipmunks", "The Incredible Hulk", "The Mummy 3", "Cirque Du Freak", and "Night At The Museum 2"
Jul 2007 - Nov 2009
Jul 2007 - Nov 2009
Rigging Apprentice
Jul 2007 - Aug 2007
Graphic Artist
Infosaic Technologies
Aug 2006 - Jul 2007
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Nick Burkard education
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Columbus College Of Art & Design
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What company does Nick Burkard work for?
Nick Burkard works for Meta.
What is Nick Burkard's role at Meta?
Nick Burkard is listed as Technical Artist Lead at Meta.
What is Nick Burkard's email address?
AeroLeads has found 1 work email signal at @disneyanimation.com for Nick Burkard at Meta.
Where is Nick Burkard based?
Nick Burkard is based in Glendale, California, United States while working with Meta.
What companies has Nick Burkard worked for?
Nick Burkard has worked for Meta, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Flowlab Inc., Stellar Creative Lab, and Duncan Studio.
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What schools did Nick Burkard attend?
Nick Burkard holds Bachelors, 3D Animation/ Time Based Media Studies from Columbus College Of Art & Design.
What skills is Nick Burkard known for?
Nick Burkard is listed with skills including Maya, Visual Effects, Houdini, Rigging, Animation, Computer Animation, Mel, and Cloth Simulation.
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