Summary of skills

• Platforms: Xbox 360, Playstation 3, PC, Wii
• Applications: Maya, Photoshop, Unreal Editor 3, Motion Builder, Arena, Mel scripting

Education

March 2006 Art Institutes of CA Santa Ana, CA

• Media Arts and Animation
• Bachelor’s degree (3/06)

• Multimedia certificate
• Multimedia certificate of completion with emphasis on 3D art

Employment

Spark Unlimited, Sherman Oaks, CA, August 2010– april 2011

Contract character TD

unannounced project ( 3rd person adventure– Xbox 360, PS3 PC )

•  created and maintained mocap pipeline
• Aided in set up of motion capture cameras
• Created rigs (biped, multi-ped, mechanical) for animation
• created Mel scripted tools for animation/character pipeline

Heavy Iron Studios, Los Angeles, CA, March 2008 – Feburary 2010

“Associate Character Artist” (character/animation TD)

Wall-E encounters the Wii (T.V. commercial)

• Developed rig for the Wii-mote in a commercial for the Wall-E video game.

Up (Co-op Platform – Xbox 360, PS3, Wii)

• Wrote and supported tools and UI for rigging and animation teams using MEL
• Created and supported various character (quadrupeds & bipeds) and prop rigs
• Developed and maintained pipeline for cinematic scenes
• Achieved proficiency in proprietary game engine editor

Spongebob Squarepants Truth or Square (Platform – Xbox 360, Wii)

• Wrote and supported tools and UI for rigging and animation teams using MEL
• Created and supported various character and prop rigs

unreleased projects ( Xbox 360, PS3, Wii)

• Organized rigging team and workflow for future projects
• Supported existing tools in transfer to Maya 2009
• Created and supported various character, vehicle, and prop rigs
• Created Motion capture rig, pipeline, and tools for Maya

Spark Unlimited, Sherman Oaks, CA, May 2006 – Feburary 2008

Rigger

Turning Point: Fall of Liberty ( FPS – Xbox 360, PS3 PC )

•  Promoted from Jr. Rigger to Rigger by Art Leads for quality of work
• Created and supported human, weapon, vehicle, and prop rigs.
• Created and supported MEL scripted tools for production.
• Achieved proficiency FaceFX, MEL, Unreal Engine 3, and Maya .
• Developed MEL driven UI for motion capture

Legendary ( FPS – Xbox 360, PS3 PC )

• Rigged “The Box,” used in-game and in TV commercials
• Created tool for automated rigging over 140 characters

Logocentric Games, Buena Park, CA, Feburary 2005 – Janurary 2006

Intern – Technical Director

Apostle ( 3rd person Action/RPG – PC )

• Created bone structure for main and minor characters
• Used MEL to create expressions and constraints for character control
• Efficiently set up distributed rendering across a network
  

• Tutored in character rigging, modeling clean up, and scene management
• Taught technical direction to students