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San Fernando Valley, California, Us

Redmond, Wa, Us

Managed all of the tech artist roles at 343 Industries. Around 25+ people within my organization. This included the character, environment, pipeline, vfx, and lighting tech artist roles.

Redmond, Wa, Us

• Focused on art pipeline tools: ► Built out plan to move Maya 2017 to Maya 2022 ► Recompiled C++ plugins and fixed errors to for Maya 2022 API ► Worked through converting many tools that had QT or Maya command/API changes

Santa Monica, California, Us

Perfect DarkJoined the studio before any work on the art pipeline had been started. Oversaw the vision, hiring, and supervision of the art pipeline. Hiring manager for VFX Lead, Shader Lead, Character TD, and Pipeline TD.• Worked closely with animation, art, and environment directors on pipeline needs• Worked with head of production on building team within budget• Integrated art team into custom Maya tool set• Sourced and directed external studios for technical content creation: ► Setup contracts with studios in external countries ► Work included scanning, rigging, and plugins for Maya and Unreal• Wrote / setup several MVP Maya pipelines: ► Defined initial coding guidelines ► Maya thin client utilizing perforce ► Custom Maya launcher ► Asset referencing tool for characters /props ► Wrote animation picker using Pyside2 QGraphicsView ► Setup a basic animation library utilizing Studio Library ► Setup shared Maya shelves via perforce ► MVP RBF plugin utilizing Maya API for characters rigs ► Paint Smooth skinning Maya plugin utilizing API ► Built many library functions for Maya / Perforce / Unreal• Directed work on character and environemnt master shaders: ► Guided work on lookdev for characters and environments to build master shaders• Directed work on environment pipeline: ► Tools for consistent exporting environment assets to Unreal ► Tools for interop between Maya and Blender ► Libraries for managing assets with Shotgun

Bend, Oregon, Us

Days GoneOversaw all of tech art for Days Gone. Managed and directed a team that reached the size of 23 toward the end of the project. I managed the following teams, the animation team, character tech art team, environment tech art team, shader team, VFX team, and lighting team.• Worked with our internal Sony studio VASG on face pipelines: ► Integrated several tools my team and I had written at Naughtydog into our workflows at Sony Bend. ► Tools for building our face rigging ► Tools for working with our animation pipeline• Improved and finished the blueprints for the in game UI weapon crafting system: ► We had some last minute all hands on deck neeeds, so I helped with this area toward the end of the game.• Extensively tested the game for performance at the end of the game: ► Worked with engineers to improve in game debug interfaces for testing ► Directed artists at areas that could be improved for performance

Santa Monica, Ca, Us

Uncharted 4: A Thief's End► Managed interviewing, training, scheduling TDs► Designed and programmed tools for a new facial system► Worked with programmers to R&D new pipeline for how our game handled joints► Rigged and skinned high resolution cinematic characters► Designed pose space tool for setting up shoulders and neck poses ► Wrote new channelbox in Maya to allow more efficient animation and rigging workflows► Wrote and maintained various animation, rigging, and designer toolsThe Last of Us► Worked on tool for exporting models to game for character modelers► Rigged and skinned a few early prototype characters► Wrote and maintained various animation, rigging, and designer toolsUncharted 3: Drakes Deception► Managed interviewing, training, scheduling TDs► Rigged faces and characters for cinematics► Rigged and skinned high resolution horse► Created Maya tools for animation, cinematic, design, and environment departments► Created tool to streamline auto rigging and publishing simple game assets► Worked with programmers to R&D cloth pipeline► Setup dynamic cloth assets to be used in game► Setup parts pipeline for user customized multiplayer charactersUncharted 2: Among Thieves► Rigged and skinned high resolution cinematic characters► Set-up NPC part system and skinned and rigged all enemy characters► Rigged and skinned various in game objects► Re-wrote the prop-management pipeline based on production used in Uncharted 1► Created tools for automatically setting up dynamics for game and cinematics► Created tools to help with rigging and fixing charactersUncharted: Drakes Fortune► Rigged and skinned high resolution cinematic characters► Rigged and skinned all in-game enemies ► Rigged and skinned various in game props ► Created scripts and tools for animators ► Created scripts to help with current rigging pipeline ► Created script to transfer magpie audio files to in game face rigs

Eugene, Oregon, Us

Godzilla: Unleashed ( Wii ) 2006 - 2006Managed three artists to create Godzilla: Unleashed proof of concept pitchCreated characters rigs and part of the animations for the pitchCreated character rigs and animations for the game after production startedDeath Jr. and the Science Fair of Doom ( DS ) 2006-2006Managed two artists to create character models and animations for Backbone VancouverCollaborated with Backbone to ensure consistent art styleManaged asset lists for artists to work fromCreated character rigs, scripts, animations, and character modelsGauntlet ( DS ) 2006 - 2006Managed three artists to create objects, characters, animation and levels for Backbone Emeryville.Coordinated with art director to create task list and assign themCreated a character rigXbox 360 Boot Screen 2005 - 2005Created animation for Xbox 360 boot screen based on reference videoRampage ( PS2, Gamecube, Wii ) 2005 – 2006Managed two artists to create 1,500 character animationsCreated animation asset lists and tracked their statusCreated face animation system rigging and scripts.Managed 28 outsourced character modelsCreated 30 character rigs including various scripts for animatorsCreated scripted tool for exporting poses and animationsGodzilla: Save the Earth (PS2, X-Box) 2002 – 2004Modeled, textured, and skinned 16 character models. Created high and low LOD models for PS2 and XboxCreated Character Studio based character rigs & animationsGodzilla: Destroy All Monsters ( X-Box, Gamecube ) 2000 – 2002Modeled, textured, and skinned 10 character models Created Character Studio based character rigsWorked as the sole animator for six months and set the groundwork for our animation system of around 200 animations per character

Eugene, Oregon, Us

-Outsourced from Pipeworks Software to work on site-Worked on animation, environment art, and scripted tools for Maya