Firat Enderoglu

Work History

• Technical Director

  NomadicVR

  April 2017 - June 2018

• Technical Art Director

  ToyTalk, Inc. (now PullString, Inc.)

  October 2013 - September 2016

  San Francisco Bay Area

  ✓ Responsible for overseeing all aspects of technical content creation for real-time, conversation based products. These products utilized different game engines such as Unity, Ogre, Stingray and others.

• Technical Art Director

  Modsy

  October 2015 - November 2015
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  Pipeline Supervisor / Supervising Technial Animator

  Sony Pictures Imageworks

  June 2010 - June 2013

  Culver City,CA

  ✓ Interviewed , trained and supervised over 15 technical directors. Managed a team located in two different countries
  
  ✓ Communicated with other departments' supervisors and the production team regularly to make sure all the problems are addressed on time, and preemptively prepared my team for upcoming challenges.
  
  ✓ During The Amazing Spider-Man, Along with the Stereo supervisor, spearheaded the production front-end pipeline for Imageworks' first native stereo movie.
  
  ✓ Created a new standardized documentation pipeline that allows both artists and TDs to effectively use the same tool to generate both API documentation and user guides.
  
  ✓ Worked on unifying the front-end pipeline that is spread over many remote locations such as Vancouver-CA, Bristol-UK, Albuquerque-NM, Culver City-CA and Chennai-India

  
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  Technical Animator / Pipeline TD

  Sony Pictures Imageworks

  June 2005 - June 2013

  Culver City, CA

  ✓ Worked on the proprietary photogrammetry and tile-world pipelines, creating realistic CG buildings that are used in movies such as Spider-Man franchise and I am Legend
  
  ✓ Maintained and improved upon the Maya toolset that covers all the front-end departments such as modeling, layout, animation and rigging. Converted many MEL interfaces to pyQT equivalents
  
  ✓ Worked with rigging department to benchmark base character rigs, wrote scripts to automate ad-hoc rig creation for various props.
  
  ✓ Provided technical shot support to all departments including animation, layout, lighting, composting.
  
  ✓ Acted as a generalist to help with other departments loads.
  
  ✓ Along with 3 other TDs, created the pipeline that allows the artists to make major adjustments and re-working to the live action plates. This system is used to it's extend on all of the Imageworks' live-action movies such as Alice in Wonderland, Oz The Great and Powerful, The Amazing Spider-Man

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
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  Contributor

  3D World Magazine

  February 2007 - March 2011

  Wrote maya tutorials and reviews
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  Character Setup

  Bishop Animation

  April 2004 - May 2005

  Rigging and skinning various models
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  Technical Director, AR

  Facebook

  ? - Present

  Menlo Park, CA

  Manager of multiple tech artists and engineers working on different AR projects
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  Facebook

  ? - Present