Brian Weaver

Work History

• Senior Artist

  NDA

  June 2024 - December 2025

• 3D Character Animator

  VR DEVELOPMENT

  August 2022 - July 2023

  Remote

  Character animation
  Rigging
  Animation supervision
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  Animator / Mechanical Rigger

  AFX Creative

  May 2022 - November 2023

  commercial work:
  
  GM, CHecy, Canon, Quantfury
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  3D Artist

  Powerhouse VFX

  January 2022 - May 2022

  remote
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  3D Artist

  Powerhouse VFX

  March 2022 - April 2022

  remote
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  Character Rigger and Animator

  Powerhouse VFX

  January 2022 - February 2022

  Remote

  NDA
• 

  Animator / Character Rigger

  AFX Creative

  January 2022 - February 2022

  Superbowl Commercial!!!
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  Character Technical Artist

  ScanlineVFX

  December 2021 - December 2021

  proprietary 3d pipeline
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  motion capture artist

  NetEase Games

  October 2021 - October 2021

  Driving style motion capture performance for Racing Master [X] cinematics
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  Animator

  Kevin VFX

  April 2021 - July 2021

  Los Angeles, California, US

• Teacher / Member, CEO

  TCSociety

  August 2008 - February 2022

  Los Angeles

  -Tai Chi long form
  -Stick, staff, sword
  -Baguazhang
  -Acupuncture

• Visual Development

  Yi Shui

  August 2020 - June 2021

  Maya and UNREAL development for VR/AR
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  VFX supervisor

  DARKMATTER™

  August 2020 - October 2020

  Los Angeles, California, United States

  -previs supervisor
  -VFX supervisor (live action shoot, GS, color/chrome)
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  Character Animator

  Kevin VFX

  August 2019 - October 2019

  Venice

  Character animation, rigging

• Recruiting Technician

  Prime Candidate Inc.

  November 2018 - March 2019

  Los Angeles, CA

• VFX Animator

  Ample Entertainment

  July 2018 - September 2018

  Culver City CA

  Previs and final animation: Yamashita's Gold

• VFX Animator

  Ample Entertainment

  January 2018 - July 2018

  Culver City CA

  Previs-through-finals: Coopers Treasure

• Customer

  RFX Inc

  November 2011 - October 2021

• Creative Director, CEO

  core.virtua

  June 2011 - January 2018

  film / commercials / video games / entertainment
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  Creative Consultant

  Logan

  2011 - November 2017

  -content creation
  -previs
  -animation
  -artistic and technical development
  
  Alexei Tylevich, Stephan Kosinski, Ludo Shornovic
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  Previs / Animation / Character Rigger

  Eight VFX

  April 2015 - August 2016

  Santa Monica

  -technical rigging and creature animation for film, commercial and VFX

• Animator

  Phenomenon

  September 2015 - January 2016

  Los Angeles

  -BUZZFEED 3d content

• Contractor - NISSI LLC/Corevirtua

  Seed Studio Inc. - WEST

  October 2012 - May 2013

  Woodland Hills, CA

  WALKING WITH DINOSAURS 3D
  Art/animation direction of augmented reality for iOS.
  
  Steven Batiste
  
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  Universal Pictures

  January 2011 - April 2011

  
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  Senior Artist

  The Third Floor

  February 2006 - October 2009

  
  Previs, creature/character animation, camera layout, motion graphics.
  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

• Freelance Artist

  Moving Pixels

  November 2006 - November 2006

  
  Previs for commercial work.
  
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  Freelance Artist

  A52

  October 2006 - October 2006

  
  Previz, rigging and final animation for a commercial commercials.
  Camera layout, tracking, previz modeling and animation, and final animation
  
  Andy Hall (VFX supervisor), Jenny Bright (producer)
  
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  Freelance Artist

  EA

  September 2006 - September 2006

  
  Previz and cinematic animation for EA Vancouver. "Need for Speed: Carbon"
  
  Wilson Tang (senior art director), Fay Griffin (producer), Mark Little (producer)
  

  
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  Freelance Artist

  Method

  August 2006 - September 2006

  
  Commercial work. Previz, modeling, tracking, final animation and camera layout
  
  Pontus Löwenhielm (director), Alex Frisch (owner)
  
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  Freelance Artist

  20th Century Fox

  July 2006 - August 2006

  
  MLB playoffs 2006, and NFL Returns to Fox 2006. Technical direction, modeling, animation and camera layout
  
  Bill Battin (producer), Josh Nichols (producer)
  
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  Freelance Artist

  Digital Domain

  May 2006 - June 2006

  
  Previzualization of television commercials. Duties included: previz, modeling, animation and camera layout
  
  Brad Parker (animation), Richard Morton (VFX supervisor), Mark Romanek (director)
  
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  Character Animator

  The Collective

  October 2005 - February 2006

  Character animator for cinematics.
  
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  Animator / Artist

  Imaginary Forces

  October 2005 - November 2005

  
  Animator / Artist - film - print. Motion graphics and animation for films, television, and print.
  

• Supervising Character Rigger

  Genuine Games

  January 2004 - September 2005

  
  Character technical director and animator- video game development. Artist supervision. Responsible for character rigging. Helped create story boards for cinematic sequences, and character animation for cinematic sequences.
  

• Animator / Character Rigger

  Impossible Pictures

  April 2003 - September 2003

  CG artist, television commercials. Ford, NHL and Dish Network.
  

• Animator / Character Rigger

  Whirligig Animation Studios

  August 2001 - March 2003

  Animator, rigger - childrens cartoon work
  
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  Character Rigger / Animator

  Modern Videofilm

  March 2001 - July 2001

  
  Character rigger and animator, childrens cartoon pilot
  

• Animator

  eTrinsic

  July 1999 - January 2001

  
  Animator - Interactive / games. created character animation, cinematics and motion graphics for new media campaigns.
  

• Illustrator

  IO Image

  May 1999 - June 1999

  
  Illustrator- print, point of sale, magazine, custom
  

• Motion Graphics Designer

  Hallmark Channel

  February 1998 - April 1999

  On-air graphics designer and animator for Hallmark Network television
  

• 3D Artist

  Devils Thumb Entertainment

  June 1996 - February 1998

  Animator, modeler, texture artist, rigger - game development.
  

• 2D Animator

  Creative Capers

  March 1996 - June 1996

  Clean up 2d animator for video game development