Ryan Cushman Email & Phone Number

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Vancouver, Canada Area

Vancouver, Canada Area

--Write/ Maintain all Rigging Tools: I'm responsible for maintaining the traditional ILM rigging tools for our production. Further, I've written many tools including our facial system.--Support Character Pipeline: I've written all of our tools that manage how our department treats assets/characters and how those assets transfer between Maya and proprietary software. --Rig Characters: I utilize our character pipeline and Maya to rig a variety of bipeds/quadrupeds and other assorted characters for use in a variety of packages.

I provide technical and creative support for the previz assets department.

MFA in Visual Effects for feature films. I received a great deal of CG specific computer science training, as well as training in Fine Art. In addition to general course work, I worked on several short films which are on the festival circuit. My thesis for graduation was the creation of an open source, modular rigging plugin.

I worked freelance on a number of projects, including "The Cannon Street Boys", "A Jake and a Tom," "Zambia Unleashed" and others. My tasks included everything from shot cleanup and composting through rigging and animation.