Experience

K2 Network, Inc./Reloaded Games, Inc.

Technical Artist / Animator / Generalist

Jan. 2011 - Mar. 2013

• Rigging of over 40 various kinds of characters, and creation of shareable rigs.
• Player character rebuild/recreation to fit bipedal shareable rig.
• Asset cleanup and optimization focused mostly on meshes and textures. Character armor reconfiguring/retro-fitting.
• Motion capture re-targeting, cleanup, and keyframe animation blending. Some keyframe animation.
• Minor scripting to maintain or add to art tools' functionality throughout development.

Digital-Toybox, Llc. / HDFilms, Inc.

Animation Lead/Technical Animator

Oct. 2008 – Jul. 2009

• Lead a small team of animators that focused on various aspects of animation and motion capture editing for a Warner Bros. web series “Chadam” that included motion capture re-targeting, motion capture clean up, keyframe animation, blending between motion capture and keyframe animation, and to ensure all animation properly fit the unique character designs.
• Created key framed animations based on storyboards for scenes lacking motion capture performances to replace motion capture, and to fill in gaps between motion capture performances.
• Blended multiple motion capture performances to create a single performance

Vicon/House of Moves

Contract Animator

Dec. 2008

• Re-targeted and cleaned up motion captured data for “Chadam” and other projects using Motion Builder.

BET Animation

Animator/Rigger

Oct. 2008

• Rigged and animated caricatures of famous musicians for BET Animation TV promotion concepts.

Education

Art Institute of California - Los Angeles

Bachelor of Science in Game Art & Design