Sterling Reames

Sterling Reames

Efficient, quality animation, rigging, and much more!

Lead Technical Animator / 15 yrs

Boston, MA

Hire Me
150 million players delighted by Sterling's animation/rigging/fx work around the world. From Indiana Jones to award winning zombie games and beyond. As well as contributing to key assets, he is experienced building art pipelines from the ground up and also well versed in transforming existing pipelines in a games as service environment.

Sound good? Give him a shout! :)
Work History
  • Gameblend

    July 2019 - October 2019
    Boston, Massachusetts, United States
  • No Goblin

    August 2019 - September 2019
    Boston, Massachusetts, United States
  • No Goblin

    June 2019 - July 2019
    Boston, Massachusetts, United States
  • Freelance Animator

    Sterling Animation Studios

    June 2018 - August 2020
    Remote

    Happy clients: PivoVR, ARX.Studio, Funkitron, Game Knight, No Goblin, Bit Fry Game Studios & more!
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  • Sr. Technical Animator (remote)

    Digimancy Entertainment

    August 2020 - July 2021
    Greater Boston

    Narrative RPG with George Ziets (Unreleased)
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  • Sr. Technical Animator

    Omni Creator Products

    July 2021 - April 2022

    Worked with Ex-Epic Games employees on a User Content Creation Platform
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  • Sr. Technical Animator

    Gala games

    April 2022 - September 2022
    Remote

    Worked on Mirandus, a First Person blockchain MMO!
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  • Sr. Technical Animator

    Six Foot

    September 2022 - September 2023
    Remote

    Heading up the animation pipeline on exciting new projects!

  • Technical Animator (Freelancer/Consultant)

    Sterling Animation Studios

    September 2023 - November 2023
    Boston, Massachusetts, United States · Remote

    Companies (Hyperion Realms, Backstage Games, Liithos)

  • Creative Director

    Empath Games

    October 2023 - Present
    Boston, Massachusetts, United States · Remote

    I made a Roblox Game with my family. Please check it out! (more info on the Empath Games page). Thanks!

  • Technical Animator

    Striking Distance Studios

    November 2023 - Present
    Boston, Massachusetts, United States · Remote

    Working on something new and exciting! Will share as soon as I can. :)

  • Lead Technical Animator (Remote)

    Bit Fry Game Studios, Inc.

    July 2016 - June 2018
    Portsmouth, NH

    -Character pipeline for many characters on a single rig
    -Rigging & animation
    -UI/FX/SFX
    -UE4 BP scripting for gameplay/animation/fx/sfx

  • Sr. Animator

    Proletariat Inc.

    May 2013 - July 2016
    Boston, Ma

    -Created character pipelines
    -Animation & rigging
    -UE4 gameplay/animation scripting
    -FX and SFX
    -UI animation
    -Promotional video editing

  • Freelance Animator

    Juicebox Games

    March 2013 - May 2013
    Boston, Ma

    -Setup character pipeline
    -Documented animation pipeline for future hires
    -Animated & rigged 2d characters in Spine
    -2d FX in Spine

  • Sr. Animator

    Zynga

    August 2010 - October 2012
    San Francisco Bay Area

    -Customizable character pipeline
    -Animation & rigging with retargetting
    -FX
    -Low poly modeling + texturing

  • Animator

    Conduit Labs

    November 2008 - August 2010
    Cambridge, MA

    -Animation & rigging

Education
  • BS in Computer Animation

    Full Sail University

    May 2006 - June 2008