Luiz Amaral

Work History

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  Rigging Artist

  Electronic Arts

  February 2020 - Present

• Game On (studio)

  January 2019 - January 2020

  Montreal, Quebec, Canada

  As Supervisor Facial TD I’m responsible for developing the facial pipeline for both real time and offline digital humans.
  
  I’m also responsible for creating a live feedback for the mocap sessions so the creative director can see the final look of the characters in real time inside the Unreal engine while the mocap shooting is happening.
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  Generalist

  ScanlineVFX

  August 2014 - December 2015

  Vancouver, Canada Area

  Although I was hired as generalist I work as rigger and tools developer since my first day here at Scanline VFX and have delivered several rigs for some very cool shows.

• Character TD

  Freelance

  July 2013 - August 2014

  22 years of experience with 3D character projects available for freelance work.
  
  * Character Riggs, Auto-rigs, Animation Interfaces and Pipeline tools for both Maya and 3Ds Max.

• TD / R&D

  MGP Marcio Garcia Produções

  May 2012 - June 2013
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  R&D / TD

  TV Globo

  January 2009 - May 2012

  At this position I am responsible for writing tools and develop solutions, worflows and rigs for the Art department of the news portion of TV Globo.
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  TD / Project Manager

  TV Globo

  November 2004 - January 2009

  - Delivered more than 200 shots of the "Eva Byte" project and rigged more than 60 3d characters ranging from extreme cartoony to very realistic humans
  
  - Wrote an autorigger that also makes the skin for the character with the envelopes automatically adjusted for the mesh
  
  - Wrote a very powerful facial animation interface with real-time feedback and with a video reference embedded and sinched with the 3ds Max timeline in realtime.
  
  - Created a very efficient cloth workflow with more than 40 different realistic clothes for the Eva Byte project (with more
• 

  TD / 3D Generalist

  TV Globo

  January 2001 - November 2004

  Rio de Janeiro Area, Brazil

  
  At this position I was involved in several character and motion graphic projects for the TV Globo network.
  

• Co-Founder

  Z-Movie Studio

  January 1991 - January 2001

  Rio de Janeiro Area, Brazil

  
  At this position I had the opportunity to manage and work in the production of 16 pc game projects, including the first Brazilian pc game ever ("Master Multimidia") and a realtime 3d game with a Development support of Intel ("Pluft o Fantasminha"). Two of these PC games feature the famous brazilian soccer player Romario.
  

• Team Lead, Character Animator. Interface Designer

  Laboratorium PUC - RJ

  January 1990 - January 1991

  Rio de Janeiro Area, Brazil

  
  Laboratorium was a multimedia company inside PUC college and only the best in their fields could integrate this team.