Junze Zhou

Junze Zhou

Character TD / 11 yrs

Irvine, CA

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Character Technical Director

Kung Fu Panda 4 (2024)

Character Technical Director

Abominable (2019)

Senior Technical Artist

Heroes of the Storm (2015)

Character TD

Puss in Boots 2

Work History
  • Rigging Technical Director

    Pearl Studio 东方梦工厂

    October 2014 - May 2016
    Shanghai, China

    • Developed a modular rig builder and rigging workflow for the studio.
    • Developed various tools and plugins to support rigging and animation.

  • Senior Technical Artist

    Tencent America

    February 2021 - March 2022

    • Developing central technology for game content creation pipelines, supporting
    multiple AAA game teams within Tencent (U.S. and China).
    • Facilitate communication and training to game teams for technology integration.

  • Senior Technical Artist

    Artie

    February 2022 - October 2022
    United States
  • Technical Artist

    META

    October 2022 - Present
  • Senior Technical Artist

    Blizzard Entertainment

    September 2017 - January 2021
    Irvine

    Heroes of the storm

  • Character TD

    DreamWorks Animation

    June 2016 - August 2017
    Glendale, CA

    Everest

  • Rigging TD

    Oriental DreamWorks

    October 2014 - May 2016

    Everest

  • Character Technical Director

    DreamWorks Animation

    November 2013 - June 2014
    San Francisco Bay Area

    Unreleased movie

  • Rigging Artist

    Reel FX

    June 2013 - October 2013
    Dallas/Fort Worth Area

    The Book of Life

  • Graduate Research Assistant

    Department of Visualization, Texas A&M University

    January 2012 - May 2013
    College Station
  • Pre-visualization Artist

    FilmArt Inc.

    February 2012 - July 2012
Education
  • Texas A&M University

    2010 - 2013
  • Beijing University of Post and Telecommunications

    2006 - 2010