Ted Gordon Email & Phone Number

Greater Chicago Area

• Created realistic, hand-keyed and motion-captured animation for Arcade Game titles: Jurassic Park Arcade, King Kong of Skull Island VR, Nerf Arcade, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Superbikes 3, Cruis’n Blast, Winter X.
• Researched available Motion Capture options, recommended and implemented our in-house mocap system
• Created MaxScripts for animation export,… Show more
• Created MaxScripts for animation export, to reduce export errors and save time. Reduced saving 12 files to one menu operation, saving roughly 10 minutes per export, per animation
• Animated in 3DS Max, Maya, and Motionbuilder
• Created effects using in house particle effects tools

Greater Chicago Area

• Created 3D Computer Animation, including:
• Hand Key and Motion Capture projects
• In-Game animations and Real-Time Cinematics
• Human and Creature Animation
• Mocap sequences with multiple characters
• Console, PC, Arcade, and Serious Games projects

Greater Chicago Area

• Management:
• Promoted to Associate Chair within 2 years of full-time service: Taught as Adjunct Faculty Fall 2007, Accepted Full-time Faculty position Feb 2008, Became Associate Chair July 2010
• Facilitated our department’s ACICS accreditation process, employing collaborative software and automating processes to increase departmental efficiency; institution earned longer-than-normal period of accreditation.
• Art-Direction… Show more Management:
• Art-Direction and management of a small team of artists for a mobile game for Microsoft. Critique and direction for multiple student projects.
• Designed department’s entire Art curriculum; taught classes in 2d and 3d Art

Greater Chicago Area

• Designed curriculum and taught classes in 2d and 3d Art within the Game Development department
• Art-Directed student-staffed projects for outside clients, helping students learn-by-doing to create higher quality work and better looking presentation pieces for Flashpoint

Greater Chicago Area

• Animated real time characters using Motion Capture for Wrestlemania XXI (XBOX)
• Worked with motion for 1, 2, and 3 person in-game moves
• Created MELscripts to automate my most repeated tasks

• Animated and Rigged characters: Red Faction 2 (PS2) [FPS], Summoner 2 (PS2) [Action/RPG], and unreleased stealth action title
• Setup, exported, and tested animations in game using custom tools and debug station

• Modeled, Textured, Lit, Rigged for Dynamics, and Keyed Animation for Objects: vehicular combat project
• Animated characters, hand keyed and motion captured: outdoors, fighting and sports game demo projects

B.A., Self-Designed Liberal Arts Major Including Course Work In Animation, Film, Figure Drawing, Anatomy

Activities and Societies: Graphics lab TA (9th floor, Mac Quadras, Advertising/Design equip) Dean’s List, Semester GPA 4.0

Liberal Arts

Activities and Societies: Science Fiction Club president 2 Years of Liberal Arts including one semester at Regent’s College, London, UK.