Todd Widup Email & Phone Number

Vancouver, Bc, Ca

Rigging Supervisor : The Marvels, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3, Ghostbusters : Frozen Empire, Minecraft the Movie, Red One, and GOATMentor artistsreview rigs/features/requestasset bid times for rigs, body and facetrouble shoot rig/anim issueswork on asset builds, body and faces rigs : layout skeleton/templates, handle all deformation setup, sculpt correctiveswork with anim leads/supes to come up with solutions for complex rigs/animation needswrite tools as neededprototype rigs for various assets

Austin, Texas, Us

Guide mentor students thru a 4 to 6 week cirriculum based around their goals. Taught roughly 25 cohortsTopics cover organic and mechanical rigging, custom face rigging approaches, tool development, python scripting and general rigging techniques

Lincoln, Ne, Us

Intro to rigging and advanced rigging courses with emphasis on emerging media and technologiesCourses :Rigging biped spring 2022Rigging basic spring 2023

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Worked on Lil Miquela and her friends, developing new rig systems to enhance and further her look

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

New York, New York, Us

Small CG service company, where I am the lead artist at, over seeing small projects with teams of 1 to 8 people handling modeling, textures, shaders, rigging and animation for VFX in films, games, TV, and VR.Projects todate include : VR avatars for various companies, Snakes for "The Originals", animation on "War with Grandpa", and rig prototyping for films

Xindian District, New Taipei City, Tw

June 2019 - Current : HTC Creative Services/ Vive StudiosOversee animation and rigging pipeline for Business Communication app. Create new models and rigs as needed, identify areas to improve in on IK solver, implement new animation systems with engineering team in TaipeiNov 2018-May2019 : HTC Creative Labsoversee animation and rigging pipeline for an internal project, come up commercial or custom software solutions for challenges, and integrate those solutions into the workflow

Redmond, Washington, Us

ARK : Extinction : Kaiju bosses and various new dinosAtlas : customizable player character, various creatures

New York, Ny, Us

Westworld VrCreate custom rigs for characters in VR project, body and face. Had to use motion capture for body and face cam footage to drive facial rig., Emmy award winning projectSAfe planning, Faceware software systems

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

Lead Tech Artist/Tech Art Director on an internal tech demo pushing what can be done on NVidia hardware

Redmond, Washington, Us

I have worked in central media, pics and platform within the Xbox org writing tools developing new techniques and working to improve characters at various studiosProjectsRare :Kinect sports rivals : facial animation systemScalebound : musclesHoloLens : various tools featuresprototype rigs for various projectspipeline tools for managing plugins/scripts for the various flavors of Maya around the office

Troy, Michigan, Us

working with game development to a 1st party developer on character technical challenges, including rigging, script and plugin development

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

rig creatures for animated feature. liason between animation and rigging for test work, to make sure rig is handling what they need, check out the character finalling steps for test footage

World War Zdevelop cloth rigs, write tools, rig clothing and characters

Intro to melscripting (2 classes : 2005/2006)Character Rigging in Maya (4 classes: 2007 - 2008)Scripting in Maya : mel & python ( 2 class : 2008)Mechanical Rigging (1 class : 2009)

London, Gb

Deathly Hallows Part 2 : room of requirement creatures and exploding elder wandPrometeus : digidoubleXMen First Class : ship to sub part riggingrig characters, write rigging tools and scripts

Vancouver, Bc, Ca

Green Lantern : Kilowog, abin sur, sinestro and various bg GL corp characters body rigsArthurs XMas : cloth and hair sim workrig characters, write pipeline, rigging, and animation tools

Us

sr creature/character TD at Imagemovers, rigging characters, objects, props, animals, whatever comes up, along with writing python tools for maya for rigging, animation, and modeling.belt rig for ghost of xmas present, and various characterslearning shader writing for rendermanmel, python, maya, mudbox, modo, renderman

London, England, Gb

"The Golden Compass"Oscar Academy Award and BAFTA winner for Visual Effects.Write mel scripts for skin slide/fat jiggle/muscle and fur pipeline (automate processing and asset checkin to main project DB), armour manipulation systems, create and tweak skin/fur simulation shots, along with armour animation and chainmail simulation.

Us

Animation tool development (mel and plugin based), character and vehicle rigging, animation/mocap, Unreal setup..animation tree, physics, etc.Oversee character modeling and textures, facial animation

hair rig

Us

"Pan's Labrynith" "Snakes on a Plane""Scary Movie 4"modeling, textures, rigging, lighting, pipeline development, scripting, tool development, and animationsoftware : Maya, Modo, Lightwave, photoshop, melscript

"Disney's The Wild"create procedural shape fixes for bad deformations and hair/fur/feather sims using Houdini and proprietary tools.software : Houdini

"Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith"rig creatures, run hair/fur/skin/rigid dynamic shots, create script tools for creature groupsoftware : Maya, mel, python, Zeno, Cari

Miramar, Wellington, Nz

"Lord of the Rings : Return of the King"Oscar /Bafta winner, best visual effectsprocess mocap data (animate fixes for bad performances)mocap TD for onset motion capture (developed pipeline with David Bawel)created tools for Nuance in TCL/TK

Redmond, Washington, Us

mocap artist/animator, create tools for Maya using melscript to automate some data processing.create retargeting rigs in filmbox/motion builderkeyframe tweaks to animation

animator/rigger on Altered Beast for the GBA, and did some animation work on Shinobi for the GBA

write technical docs for software, create tutorials for users, write scripts to support software, and create animations to show off software functionality

created high res models for cinematic group as well as motion capture and animation.

London, Gb

take support calls, handle trouble tickets and assign field techs to tickets. Monitor down time of systems to avoid penalties. run ticket lookups, and minor system admin.GTech ran the lottery systems for the state of Kansas.

Cert Ai, Ai/Ml

Ba, Traditional Arts : Illustration

Arts : Graphic Design And Photography