Adam Sidwell

Work History

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  Head of Studio

  Future House Studios

  June 2020 - Present

  Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

  Directed game cinematics and supervised a team to provide rigging, modeling, texturing, and tool development for game companies.
  
  Clients:
  deeproot Studios
  WaveXR
  Fuse Engine
  
  and more!
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  Founder

  Future House Studios

  May 2020 - Present
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  Studio Director

  deeproot Studios

  November 2018 - June 2020

  Greater Salt Lake City Area
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  Animation Director

  WITHIN (VR/AR)

  June 2017 - November 2018

  Los Angeles, California

  Animation and Character Director for Virtual Reality experiences.
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  Creative Director

  Future House Publishing

  April 2012 - August 2017

  Bestselling Author of five children’s novels and picture books. Wrote bestselling Evertaster series for children (3 novels so far). Hit the Amazon Top 100 Overall Bestseller list. Sold movie rights to the first Evertaster book. Authored and art directed the picture book Fetch. Represented by Alyssa Henkin at Trident Media Group, largest lit agency in North America.
  
  Titles:
  Evertaster
  Evertaster: The Buttersmiths' Gold
  Evertaster: The Delicious City
  Chum
  Fetch (Picture Book)
  
  My first novel Evertaster hit the Amazon Top 100 Bestseller List and claimed #1 in Children's Mystery. https://amzn.to/MCwMgo
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  Creature Technical Director

  Industrial Light & Magic

  December 2014 - May 2016

  San Francisco Bay Area

  Pirates of the Caribbean III
  Warcraft
  Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
  
  Crafted iconic digital characters shot-by-shot using ILM proprietary simulation software for the silver screen. Designed and refined digital doubles, orcs, turtles, and award-winning Davy Jones creature for Academy Award Nominee Pirates of the Caribbean III.

  

  
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  Creature Supervisor

  Mirada Studios

  October 2011 - May 2012

  Los Angeles, CA

  Designed, developed, and oversaw Creature Department tools and assets. Built rigs in Maya. Wrote tools in Python. Built articulated character rigs and deformations for robots and kaiju as proofs of concept to secure studio’s involvement in Guillermo del Toro's blockbuster Pacific Rim.
  
  Created visuals effects for various national commercial campaigns.
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  Character Technical Director

  MPC

  September 2011 - January 2012

  Made Dinosaurs! (Nintendo Commercial)
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  Character TD

  Digital Domain

  November 2007 - May 2011

  Tron Legacy, Ender’s Game, Thor, Tranformers 2, Speed Racer, I,Robot: built characters featured in full screen, demanding hero shots. Built lightwall system for lightcycles and lightjets. Shot sculpted rigs and simulated cloth. Contributed to facial rig for Brad Pitt on Academy Award-Winning Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

  

  

  

  

  
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  Sony Pictures Imageworks

  August 2007 - November 2007

  Zombies!

  
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  Creature Technical Director

  Industrial Light & Magic

  December 2006 - April 2007

  San Francisco Bay Area

  Pirates of the Caribbean III.

  
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  Creature Technical Director

  Wētā FX

  October 2004 - December 2005

  King Kong: Responsible for designing and building articulate character rigs for Academy Award-Winning King Kong. Designed, scripted, and automated special solutions for digital doubles, vehicles, and cloth and hair.

  
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  Technical Director

  Digital Domain

  June 2003 - June 2004

  Built production tools for to automate process for the I,Robot character pipeline. Wrote animation, animation publishing, lighting, and rendering tools in MEL, PERL, and various languages. Streamlined production and helped animators and lighters troubleshoot their scenes.

  

• Modeler

  Zygote Media Group

  May 2000 - August 2001

  Xbox games and more...