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WILDWOOD.

Portland, Oregon Area

Digital Sculptor for Henry Selick's Wendell and Wild. More details to come.

Hillsboro, Oregon

Worked on Golden Globe Best Animated Feature Missing Link, and Laika's unannounced next film.ART: For next film, created Laika's pipeline for digisculpts, sets of digitally sculpted expressions for director buy off on look of character. Created art approval sculpts and expression sculpts for most main characters. Some digital models made from Kent Melton sculptures and others modeled from 2d artwork. Created animate-able topology and sculpted a digital maquette. For Missing Link modeled facial hair of most characters in film, worked on secondary characters, armor, even helped model a printed piece of poop!CODING:Created and published dozens of company python tools through gitlab and jenkins to automate and improve team workflow.Wrote scripts which procedurally model print-ready complex puppet parts, like eye-rigs, to various sizes, dynamically choosing appropriate hardware and altering physical configurations as the parts scale. Vacuform parts, laser cutter curves, etc., all procedurally generated for time savings to all artists. For workflow created many tools for precision, speed, and ease of modeling, including dynamic scripted hardware rigs for magnets, screws, lasernuts,etc.ENGINEERING:Worked with Lead Fabricators to engineer hundreds of puppet parts together for face interiors. Technical precision modeling. Worked with 3d prints, created printed molds, and learned a lot of stuff I knew nothing about! Our department recently won a technical achievement Oscar award.

San Francisco Bay Area

Undisclosed project. Character modeling and texturing for unity. Designed highly performant unity shader for project.

San Francisco Bay Area

Farmville 2 Web team! Responsible for taking assets through outsourcing pipeline, providing art direction for teams in Japan, China, and India. Responsible for establishing look for new species, and creating pipeline automation/tools/efficiency improvements. Created initial technical pitch and all art required for launching the animal breeding feature. Documented pipeline for overseas training. Did shader, render, and some modeling work for Farmville short film Pig Out. Offered Lead position for next Farmville project before departure.

Modeling and texturing characters for Marvel Heroes 2015 MMO. Created hundreds of Zbrush models for the game, leading by example with a small team of three and no outsourcing. In several weeks, did the modeling, texturing, lighting, compositing for our game's cinematic. Work was delivered on tight timelines, while going through approval process with Joe Quesada, TQ Jefferson, Marvel Legal, and Art Director.

San Francisco Bay Area

Created several character and object models for Vainglory, a tablet/smartphone MOBA.

San Francisco Bay Area

Technical Modeling, rendering, and compositing for several demonstration videos of a high voltage circuit breaker.

One on one advising of Masters students on their thesis projects.

San Francisco Bay Area

Modeling/Rendering in Vray. Pre-vis of multiple interior spaces.

Creating the syllabus for an animation for film class, using Maya software and a little bit of Zbrush.

Modeling, texturing and rendering interior spaces for multi-million dollar interior design projects. 3DS Max, Vray, and Photoshop.

SPIDERMAN 3:Created brushes and tips for texturing pipeline. Painted realistic high res textures.FANTASTIC FOUR 2: Painted textures for cg truck and for Johnny character. Created mattes in Shake.HAPPY FEET: Modeled snow and created shader mattes.

UV Setup, character modeling, rigging and texturing.