Resume

• Product owner of migrating the muscle simulation work from Maya Ziva Dynamics into a fully procedural Houdini workflow that improves efficiency by 90%.

• Created a plug-and-play template that requires very little intervention from tech anim artists to produce muscle sims.

• Workflow and standard overhaul communicated with Art, Rigging, and Pipeline Departments to ensure consistent inputs/outputs for our Creature FX department

• Responsible for documenting all of the physique/anatomy-related work from Maya through to Houdini and how to produce good quality ML deformation outputs

• Integrated the muscle deformation outputs to flow into the outfit simulation workflow smoothly to create outfit simulation training data for game characters

• Run shot work cloth simulation for game cinematic sequences

• Work on character outfit variations and create simulation + training data to add real-time ML cloth folds and wrinkles

• Create comprehensive documentation on confluence for new hires and Tech Anim team to reference new workflows and practices

• Creation of animation rigs for live-action and feature-animated movies, including digi-doubles, cartoony characters, vehicles, props and creatures

• Creation of cloth and muscle rig setup on Digi-doubles

• Shot simulation including cloth, hair, muscles, and shot fixing

• Write animation and rigging tools tailored to project and artist needs

• Contribute to new rigging modules in BlockParty 2

• Create documentation for new workflows on confluence

• Troubleshoot assets and shot issues on JIRA that arise during production

• Maintain and update rigs and their variations throughout the project

• Direct communication with Leads and Supervisors when developing custom rigs on a feature animated show

• Responsible for developing new face rig modules and RnD rig prototypes

• Used NXT node-base graph plugin for Maya in conjunction with mGear

• Direct communication with Supervisors from the modelling and animation department to help plan upcoming and current assets including topology feedback, technical constraints and artistic feedback

   Termination due to studio-wide shutdown

• Responsible for setting up hero animation rigs (biped, quadruped, wings creatures)

• Created a code library function sets and rig modules including FK/IK/Wing in Python (OOP)

• Created utility scripts in python to help with rig/sim rebuilds as well as initialization scripts for running shots

• Setup muscle sim rigs using Ziva Dynamics and run shots

• Create CFX setup for cloth, hair and skin/muscles using Vellum

• Run CFX show work for a variety of shows

• Created face rigs on a feature film movie including joint setup, skin weight painting and creation of blendshape sculpts

• Assisted the CFX department on setting up cloth simulation rigs using nCloth

• Developed tools to assist the CFX department in building cloth rigs

• Created character rigs for Maya the Bee 2

• Rigs included body, face and props

• Utilized the in-house rigging system and created post-script rigs to allow rig rebuildability

• Sole rigger and technical artist on a project bidding called Arkie.

• Created custom rigs for the characters and created environment dynamics

• Assisted in rigging assets for a number of shows including Doctor Strange, Alien: Covenant, and Underworld: Blood Wars

• CG Generalist and Rigger working in 3Ds Max, Modo for asset modelling and Maya