Chris Singer
Passionate and creative person, wishing to create marvels
Senior Animator / 17 yrs
Guildford, United Kingdom
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Work History
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Senior 3D Animator
Supermassive Games
February 2015 - July 2015Guildford, United Kingdom
Worked on "Until Dawn", a AAA Next Generation Game for PS4.
(Keyframe Animation, Cutscenes, in game animation and also motion capture editing).
Cinematography and working with the Director.
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Senior Animator
Climax Studios
April 2014 - February 2015
Keyframe character animation on main game character(ShaoJin). Work on cutscenes and camera work. Implementing function of animation into a game environment.
Choreograph action sequences and armed combat. Attack moves, kills, acting out sequences for professional stunt artists to carry out. Implement motion capture and animate on top to give best effect for the scene / action within the game. Two other undisclosed projects - Character Animation and cinematic / trailer work (Disney/pixar style of animation.
Projects: 2 Unannounced games and Assassin's Creed Chronicles, working in conjunction with Ubisoft.
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Animator
Milk Visual Effects
October 2013 - December 2013London, United KingdomProjects: Dr Who Xmas, Hercules Feature Film (The Rock), David Attenborough's Museum Alive
Providing The best visual performances. Working within a great Team.
Creature Quadroped / Character Animation, Weapon Animation, Vehicle Animation.
Hyper real and realistic themes.
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3D Creature Animator
RealtimeUK
August 2013 - August 2013
Full Keyframe animation for large set piece performances.
"Zoo Tycoon" (Not yet released) Xbox One Next generation console game.
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Senior Animator
Sony Computer Entertainment Europe
April 2013 - June 2013Cambridge, United Kingdom
AAA Major Title "Killzone Mercenary" for "Sony / Guerrilla"
Working on Facial Animation. Key frame Animation and Torture / Interrogation cutscenes. Briefing Cutscenes. Posing Promo shots. Working with Motion Capture data, through to Final Polish.
(Autodesk Maya)
Implementing Complex diagram Mechanics for game function and actions. Using in-house tools for both Animation and Game implementation
Realistic facial animation of characters in game and for major cutscenes.
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Animator
MPC
August 2011 - March 2012Soho
Animator - "Full key-framing Creatures in "Wrath of the Titans"
(with Sam Worthington).
- Animation for Hero shots with realism, believability and of dramatic performance for Film quality.
- Meeting shot deadlines and putting in the extra work that may be required to go beyond standard performance. Working in a very demanding and highly stressful environment with professionalism to all aspects of work and being a great team player.
- Worked on 8 key shots in the Movie
RotoAnimation - Highest level of RotoAnimation on Tim Burton's "Dark Shadows" (Angelique, Cracks on face and body),
- Full Body and Full Facial RotoAnimation (Matching CG using animation to actors performance)
- Worked on over 10 shots of the highest complexity
- Rotoanimation for Human/ Zombie interaction - "World War Z"
- Worked on 3-4 shots, some with up to 6 characters
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Character Animator
Frontier Developments
June 2008 - July 2011Cambridge, United Kingdom
Character Animator - "Kinect Disneyland® Adventures”. AAA title for Microsoft.
- Animation and Direction on a main shot for Teaser Trailer for Microsoft Pitch (Camera work on Main Intro to the Game, Captain Hook fight sequence with 2 player Characters and Camera, Peter Pan and Players in Flying game and bobsleigh Ride)
- Animation and Motion capture work on over 20 characters. The main sections being:
Peter Pan Ride (Peter Pan Acting Cinematic, Flying on Peter Pan and characters), Alice in Wonderland game (Alice falling down hole and player characters falling). Bobsleigh Ride and Snow Ball fight (Animated Player, Sleigh, yeti's). Grand Canyon section (Animated buzzard, player, Cart), Tinkerbell Story Game (Animated Tinkerbell, Captain Hook, Peter Pan)
(Captain Hook, Peter Pan, Bobsleigh Ride and Grand Canyon section)
- Creating Disney looking Animation with character and style to the brief outlined.
- Critiquing Animation Dailies and Critiquing Outsource Animation from outsourced companies.
- Disney Animation study and in-depth Character Animation with Richard Williams DVD sessions.
Character Animator - "Kinectimals" (Nom 2 Baftas). AAA title for Microsoft Xbox 360 "Kinect".
- Creating high quality animations with character to outstanding quality within a game. Primarily Main Shots and Cinematics (Also Microsoft Pitch) (First game for Microsoft from our company).
- Innovation and driving the team with positive energy to spearhead us through sited goals. Asset creation, rigging, skinning, coding and organisation within the project.
- Ensuring deadlines are met to the highest quality and with efficiency.
- Animated over 30 shots of cinematics, over 50 in-game animations.
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Runner / Assistant
MPC
2008 - 2008
Ensuring the facilities were running and lots of hard graft!!
Helped with assets and modelling on a commercial
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Education
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BA Honours in Digital Animation, 2:1 With Special Mention
University of Hertfordshire
2004 - 2007 -
Various NVQ's, Mechanical Engineering
British Army
2000 - 2002 -
IT GNVQ ADVANCED
North Hertfordshire College
1998 - 2000