Skill Set

• Effective team management and inter-department communication
• Create movie-quality, complex character/animal/mechanical rigs for Film & TV
• Design, create, test, and maintain character rigs/skinning/deformations
• Develop/Code character setup scripts and other supporting tools
• Create secondary dynamics motions
• Strong knowledge of human and animal physiology

Jan 2020 – Present

Rigging Supervisor

The Mill / Arc Creative

Game Cinematic: Bethesda Softworks, Elder Scrolls Online: Gold Road, Shadow Over Morrowind

Game Cinematic: Bungie Inc., DESTINY II: Lightfall, The Final Shape, Renegades

Game Cinematic: Bungie Inc., Marathon: Save the Date, Factions

Game Cinematic: Riot Games, Valorant: Incursions, Sino, Dawn Breaks, All Paths End, United Together

Game Cinematic: Electronic Arts Inc., Star Wars: Jedi Survivor, Zero Company, Galaxy of Heroes

Game Cinematic: Wizards of the Coast, Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance

Game Cinematic: Epic Games, Rocket League: Sideswipe

Commercial: NFL Sunday Ticket, The Magic Of Sunday

Commercial: Netflix, The World is on Netflix

Commercial: Liberty Mutual, Truth Teller, Ghostbuster

Commercial: Snapchat, Phantom House Off Trail

Commercial Additional: Mercury Insurance, Energizer, Pepsi, Hasbro, Microsoft, Progressive, Mercedes, etc.

• Managing the Los Angeles rigging team including project assignments, quality control, mentoring riggers on the pipeline and best-practice techniques
• Scripting advance character setup tools to upgrade the preexisting process and rigs
• Building and supporting rigs for a characters and creatures in a variety of styles: realistic to squash-stretch
• Constantly interfacing with show supervisors, modeling and animation departments to fulfill request, meet demands and solve pipeline errors

Jan 2016 – Jan 2020

Rigging Supervisor

Encore VFX

TV: Doom Patrol

TV: Titans

TV: The Flash

TV: Batwoman

TV: Supergirl

TV: Legends of Tomorrow

TV: Black Lightning

TV: Riverdale

TV: MacGyver

• Managed the rigging department including project assignments, quality control, mentoring riggers on the pipeline and best-practice techniques
• Scripted advance character setup tools to upgrade the preexisting process and rigs
• Built and supported rigs for a variety of characters, vehicles, aliens, and animals, for crowd simulation software and TV episodes
• Constantly interfaced with show supervisors, modeling and animation departments to fulfill request, meet demands and solve pipeline errors
• Documented manuals for proper pipeline procedures to standardize the process in all department

Feb 2013 – Oct 2015

Rigging Lead

Prologue Films

High-End Game Cinematic: Bungie's Destiny

• Create, adapt, and support rigs and skinning for high-rez humanoid, alien, mechanical, vehicle assets
• Create MOCAP rigs and script tools to integrate animation onto high-rez rigs
• Add secondary animation through nCloth and dynamics
• Script tools for animators including character GUIs, MOCAP animation transfer, resolution baking, etc
• Script environmental population and set dressing tools
• Collaborate with pipeline, modelers, and animators to meet technical and artistic needs

Jan 2013 – Feb 2013

Previz Artist

Luma Pictures

TV: Agents of SHIELD

• Modeled and rigged digital characters to match actors' likeness
• Create virtual sets to match practical set blueprints
• Adapted script to a virtual portrayal through animating characters and camera

March 2013 – May 2013

Freelance Character Setup / Rigger

Super 78

Dreamworks Theme Park Fabrications

• Rigged DreamWork's Madagascar primary and secondary characters for posing

May 2012 – Jan 2013

Freelance Character Setup / Rigger

XY3 Studios

Educational Rigging DVD Series

• Full creature rig
• Develop curriculum for instructional 3-Disk set Rigging DVD
• Research and implement most efficient methods of character controls

Mar 2012 – May 2012

Character Setup / Rigger

Stargate Studios

TV Pilot: ABCs Beauty and the Beast

• Rigged/skinned all quadruped creatures
• Created and simulated creature effects including muscle mass, slobber, and armor
• Automated character setup with MEL scripting
• Generated crowd simulations and crowd characters

June 2010 – May 2011

Final Layout Artist

DreamWorks Animation

Short Film: How to Train Your Dragon: Legend of the Boneknapper

TV: How to Train Your Dragon: Gift of the Night Fury

TV: Monsters vs Aliens: Night of the Living Carrots

• Finalized scenes, character and prop positions, and camera motion before animation
• Rigged and supported Previs characters
• Applied stereoscopic 3D to shots for emotional and visual impact

Dec 2007 – May 2010

Character Technical Director

DreamWorks Animation

Film: Kung Fu Panda II

Film: How to Train Your Dragon

TV: Kung Fu Panda Holiday Special

TV: Madagascar Valentines Special

• Rigged/skinned characters (body and face) and props for production
• Maintained and modified character rigs through-out production

Aug 2006 – Sept 2007

3d Artist / Rigger

Sprite Animation Studios

Film: Undisclosed Disney Animated Movie

Film: Gon

• Rigged/skinned primary and secondary characters, biped and quadraped
• Created auto-rigging tool for face setup on diverse head shapes (MEL)
• Create tools for quick creation and transfer of facial poses/expressions (MEL)

Nov 2005 – Aug 2006

3d Artist / Rigger / Previz

Reality Check Studios

Film: Journey to the Center of the Earth

Film: Messengers

Clients: Toyota, Target, DTV, Mojave Las Vegas Museum, etc.

• Rigged and animated various characters and creatures
• Created high quality, fully animated Previz including camera direction, animation, and FX
• Designed, modeled, and lit CG characters and sets for production

Mar 2005 – Oct 2005

TD Animator

Rythm & Hues

Film: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe

• Simulated dynamic and non-dynamic motion of hair, fur, skin, and cloth
• Wrote scripts to automate tasks using proprietary scripting language
• Evaluated rigs and recommend efficient technical solutions