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Royal Leamington Spa, England, United Kingdom

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Responsible for rigging Characters, Creatures and Vehicles, creating tools and developing modular technical pipeline for animated short films and TV series at this Emmy winning studio.Accomplishments:- Responsible for building, testing and updating multiple hero characters in multiple productions.- Improved upon the rig template for bipeds as well as establishing new templates to standardise rigs across production.- Doubled the deformer weight import and export speeds… Show more Responsible for rigging Characters, Creatures and Vehicles, creating tools and developing modular technical pipeline for animated short films and TV series at this Emmy winning studio.Accomplishments:- Responsible for building, testing and updating multiple hero characters in multiple productions.- Improved upon the rig template for bipeds as well as establishing new templates to standardise rigs across production.- Doubled the deformer weight import and export speeds. Resulting in ~30% reduction in time, every time a rig is built.- Played pivotal part in developing new modular rigging pipeline and improving existing pipeline features. - Acted as an onboarding mentor for new rigging artists, guiding them through the rigging pipeline to facilitate seamless integration into project workflows. - Improved documentation on proprietary pipeline and tools.- Organised events every month for the rigging department and established a studio-wide football club. Show less

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Created and optimized character and facial rigs, built and integrated character assets into Unreal Engine, simulated cloth and rigid body systems as well as utilizing particle systems.Accomplishments:- Acted as bridge between programming and art departments.- Responsible for rigging as well as physics simulations and FX.- Created script for automatic joint re-targeting, which allows standard character rigs to counter proportion changes.- Ported finished art into Unreal… Show more Created and optimized character and facial rigs, built and integrated character assets into Unreal Engine, simulated cloth and rigid body systems as well as utilizing particle systems.Accomplishments:- Acted as bridge between programming and art departments.- Responsible for rigging as well as physics simulations and FX.- Created script for automatic joint re-targeting, which allows standard character rigs to counter proportion changes.- Ported finished art into Unreal Engine.- Improved upon optimisation to increase efficiency of both vehicular rigs and shaders.- Created and improved upon technical documentation. Show less

Bristol, England, United Kingdom

Co-created a 3D video game Art Installation developed on Unreal Engine on the subject of 'Freedom of Movement' for Glastonbury Music Festival as a part of my Master's degree in Computer Science: Creative Technologies, at the University of the West of England, Bristol under supervisor Daniel Buzzo. As a Tech Artist , I was responsible for many aspects of the pipeline starting from Unreal engine integration, optimizing, rigging, shader building to physics and cloth simulation. This position gave… Show more Co-created a 3D video game Art Installation developed on Unreal Engine on the subject of 'Freedom of Movement' for Glastonbury Music Festival as a part of my Master's degree in Computer Science: Creative Technologies, at the University of the West of England, Bristol under supervisor Daniel Buzzo. As a Tech Artist , I was responsible for many aspects of the pipeline starting from Unreal engine integration, optimizing, rigging, shader building to physics and cloth simulation. This position gave me valuable knowledge into game industry workflows.Accomplishments:- Created multiple biped, and vehicular rigs.- Imported motion capture animation into rigs- Improved efficiency of shaders.- Collaborated with animation department to achieve high quality facial animation. Show less

Master Of Science - Msc, Computer Science And Creative Technology

Activities and Societies: Elected Student Representative. Core modules completed: • Creative Technology Toolkit • Creative Technology.

Bachelor Of Science - Bsc (Hons), Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Computing Society (2015-2018), Elected Student Representative Core Modules completed: • Robotics • Game.

Higher National Diploma, Computer Animation, Visual Effects And Game Design

Mentor: Arron Robinson Primary focus: Rigging Core modules: • Rigging • Life Drawing • 3D Sculpting • 3D Modelling • Texturing • Lighting.

Foundation Degree, Sciences

Activities and Societies: Elected Student Representative. Subjects: • English Language • Physics • Pure Mathematics • Statistics •.