Experience

• Senior Technical Artist at Bungie

  Bellevue

  April 2020 - Present

• Rigging Artist, In-Game Cinematics at Blizzard Entertainment

  Irvine, United States of America

  March 2019 - March 2020

• Rigging Intern at Insomniac Games

  Burbank

  May 2018 - August 2018

  Responsible for skinning polish, cinematic and prop rigs on Marvel’s Spider-Man and its DLC The City That Never Sleeps. Developed tools using the Maya API that enhanced existing character art and skinning workflows. Also assisted in the development and testing of a modular rigging tool.

• Freelance Character TD at Ronin Applied Sciences

  New York, United States

  April 2018 - Present

  Lead Character TD for an unannounced game project. Responsible for the development of body and facial rigging pipelines, animation tools, and tool distribution.

• Technical Direcor at Rig Think

  San Jose, United States

  September 2017 - April 2018

  Responsible for the development of a cross-version Picker UI using PyQt and Python. Implemented animator tools such as IK/FK matching and pose mirroring.
  
  Co-developed a Pose Library tool for storing and applying poses onto a model. Responsible for core functionality, which includes writing the keyable attribute values of selected controls to a custom json file format which can be shared to other animators.

• Lead Character TD at The Masque (Student Project)

  San Jose, United States

  September 2016 - May 2017

  Lead Character TD for a student horror game project called The Masque. Responsible for the rigging, skinning, and Unreal implementation of 4 bipedal characters. Developed a modular rigging system that allowed for the copying of character animation across similar skeletons.

• Freelance Character TD at Mattrunks

  Paris, France

  October 2017 - November 2017

  Responsible for the delivery of character animation rigs for Maya-side animation. Delivered flexible, ribbon-based character rigs with dynamic FK chain systems. Also responsible for the skinning of characters for Unity and Kinect integration.