Resume

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Objective

Seeking an opportunity to utilize and enhance my character animation skills, while working with a team of talented developers in a creative and collaborative environment.

Software

Software: Maya, MotionBuilder, 3ds Max | Engines: UE4, APEX, UE3

Animation Experience

Playground Games – Senior Gameplay Animator on Fable                                                                   March 2021 – Present

NetherRealm Studios – Gameplay Animator on MK11 Kombat Pack & Aftermath                               July 2019 – Feb’ 2021

• Push motion capture to achieve the established hyperreal style
• Collaborate with design on the timing of attacks for a better gameplay experience
• Contribute final quality body and prop animations to Fatalities
• Manage the development of animation tools created by outsourcers
• Oversee and test a Motionbuilder to Maya pipeline
• Training the animation team on more efficient workflows within Maya
• Assist in R&D on improving systems and animation style on the next game
• Tasked with bringing others shots to a higher polished state
• Discuss with the Tech Art team on creating tools and rigs that allow us to animate faster
• Participate in character animation reviews before they shipped

Avalanche Studios – Animator on Just Cause 4 and DLC                                                                           Jan’ 2017 – June 2019

• Created a majority of the civilian character animations to produce a living world
• Cleaned up and polished cinematics to create shippable quality
• Collaborated with design and environments to shape a metropolis where civilians interact and live
• Prototyped hand-key animation and integration for new enemy types and flow states
• Designed previz scenes exploring the differences in personality and environmental layout of factions
• Worked closely with tech to improve Maya tools and the in-game pipeline
• Managed the creation of all props that the world sim would use
• Updated state machines and integrated new animations into the engine
• Planned internal and external animation milestone deliveries
• Acted and performed in our in-house Motion Capture suit

Hi-Rez Studios – Associate Animator on Smite                                                                    Aug’ 2015 – Dec’ 2016

• Created attacks, locomotion, emotes, idles, and transitional animations
• Animated cinematic sequences promoting new content, including layout and camera
• Brainstormed and developed personalities of new characters
• Added flavor and personality for new skins of existing characters
• Adapted animation sets for remodels of old characters
• Reviewed animations in engine and fixed bugs for upcoming patches

Education

iAnimate, Online Animation School                                                               

• Creature Animation Workshop 1 Mar’ 2014
• Games Animation Workshop 1 Oct’ 2016

Animation Mentor, Online Animation School

• Diploma in Advanced Studies of Character Animation Dec’ 2013

DePaul University, Chicago, IL                                                                                                      June 2012

• B.S. in Computer Game Development: Production and Design, 3.5 GPA, Cum Laude

Awards and Honors

            Eagle Scout, May 2004

Dean’s List, Multiple Quarters 2008-2012

iAnimate Creatures Student Showreel – Summer 2013, Fall 2014