Todd Palamar Email & Phone Number

Winter Park, FL, US

Orlando, Florida Area

• Mentor and supervise art team including outsourced talent and contractors
• Design, model, texture, rig, weight, and export characters capable of extensive facial expressions, speech, and sign language using Maya, Mudbox and 3ds Max
• Built 6 camera markerless Motion Capture studio
• Streamlined and improved pipeline to share skin weights and facial rigs between characters. Scripting with Mel, Python, MaxScript, and Batch files to automate common tasks; cutting development time by 75%
• Developed facial rig capable of Dr. Paul Ekman’s F.A.C.S and lip syncing
• Collaborated with programming team to develop pipeline for exporting characters to CryEngine, Unity3D, Gamebryo and proprietary engines

Orlando, Florida Area

• Mastering Autodesk Maya 2016 864 pgs. (Sybex)
• Mastering Autodesk Maya 2015 846 pgs. (Sybex)
• Mastering Autodesk Maya 2014 1008 pgs. (Sybex)
• Mastering Autodesk Maya 2013 1088 pgs. (Sybex) Lead Author, 16 chapters
• "Living Flesh" Computer Generated movie series. Show Creator
• Presented a special Master Class workshop for ACCAD Graduate Students at Ohio State University. The focus was Special Effects/Cloth

• Developed and implemented 12 week Maya training program

• Supervised staff of 13 instructors
• Designed and implemented over 380 hours of lecture and lab training material
• Managed and instructed three courses, averaging 230 students a month
• Won Outstanding Educator award for 2002, 2003, and nominated for prestigiousTop Gun award in 2003 and 2004

• Character and object animation for cinematic sequences
• Designed, modeled, and textured animals and vehicles
• Animated dozens of seamless cycles for a variety of animals

Orlando, Florida Area

• Built characters, hard surface models and environments for rendered and real time projects. Rigged characters for muscles, breathing, blinking, etc...Animated effects, vehicles, and objects.
• Animated player path and vehicles for coin-op Sega arcade game "Behind Enemy Lines"

• Best Friend Films, Oviedo, FL“Deathmask”, video release
• Designed, created, and animated 3 deathmask expressionsTriboro Entertainment, Hollywood, CA“Jack-O”, video release
• Directed Jacko death sequence and created over 20 seconds of CGIVidmark Entertainment, Hollywood, CA“BioHazard: The Alien Force”, video release
• Designed, and created blood effects, pyrotechnics, SFX makeup, SFX propsCurb Entertainment, Hollywood, CA“Dark Universe”, video release
• Designed, and created blood effects, miniatures, SFX makeup, SFX props