Jessica "Psy" DeLacy

Work History

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  Crowds Technical Director

  Pixar

  October 2016 - August 2030

  Emeryville, CA

  
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  Character TD

  DreamWorks Animation

  April 2012 - October 2016

  Redwood City, CA

  During my time at Dreamworks I have been fortunate to work on four shows.
  
  Penguins of Madagascar was my first show, and I was tasked with facial rigging. The first challenge was rigging background characters with multiple heads and facial proportions that needed animation to transfer between them. After I got a better hold of the tools and rigging systems, I moved on to rig Private's face. I worked with the hoca and a few animators to get his look perfect - his buggy eyes and eyelids actually turned out to be one of the most challenging areas. I a

  
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  Technical Animation TD

  Rhythm & Hues Studios

  December 2010 - April 2012

  As a technical animator at R&H, I got to experience Voodoo and write a lot of tools to streamline my workflow. I became very familiar with Parsley, Rhythm's proprietary scripting language, and learned the ins and outs of Voodoo. The technical animation team that I worked with at R&H were some of the most talented people I had the pleasure of knowing.

  

  

  

  

• Character Rigging Lead

  Project X

  August 2009 - November 2010

  Working on Project X was an amazing experience, and I am happy to say that our film is done! I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it will get into Siggraph.
  
  Being the lead rigger on Project X was a great challenge, and my first immersion as to how the industry would actually be. It was hard, we worked long hours, lost lots of sleep, learned more than we ever had before, and made a great short.
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  Student

  Cogswell Polytechnical College

  2007 - 2010

  Specialized primarily in character rigging.