Roberto Ciriaco

Work History

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  Character RIGGER/TD

  Freelance

  July 2013 - Present

  Freelance CharacterTD/Rigger
  - Character Rigger TD. Working on CG commercial, Games and Movie.
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  Character Rigger

  NOT JUST MUSIC srl

  September 2019 - December 2019

  Clothes character rigging
  
  - PSD developed in python, clothes rigging, developed custom scripts to speed up rigging tasks
  - Seondary controls to help the animation and simulation departments
  - Direct relatioship with the rigging department
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  Character TD

  Proof Inc

  September 2019 - October 2019

  London, England, United Kingdom

  Rigging Department Disney - The Little Mermaid
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  Lead Rigging TD

  freakinware games

  June 2019 - September 2019

  Italy

  Characters Rigging for game engine.
  
  - Pipeline development
  - Supervised the rigging department
  - Tested all the characters in a proprietary engine
  - Direct relatioship with animation and rigging departments
  - Exported and tested all the fbx animations
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  Character Rigger

  Polygonbay

  August 2019 - August 2019

  “Monster Bird scaling system”
  
  - Developed modular scaling system (body, tail, head, legs and wings) in python that has been attached and rebuilded on a complex modular rigging system. Work on different characters.

• Character Rigger

  Made Image Films Ltd

  March 2019 - March 2019

  LADY ISOBEL AND THE ELF KNIGHT FRAMEWORKS
  
  - Characters Rigging
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  Character Rigger

  Plotwise

  February 2019 - February 2019

  Rigged main character (cartoon Prof) for SuperMarsu FactFiction. (airing 2021)
  
  Custom Rig:
  - Ik/fk bendy limbs
  - full scalable
  - head squash and stretch
  - full facial expressions
  and many other features
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  CHARACTER TD/RIGGER

  Big Company

  October 2018 - January 2019

  Parigi

  Rigged LadyBug for Disney Channel with the collaboration of xsens technology for the body capture and dynamixyz for the face capture. The rig was used with unity to talk with the “lady bug fans” in live (no animation pass).
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1DiOreHsdw
  
  - Christmas advertisment
  Rigged 3 main cartoon characters for Miracoulus for Disney Channel
  Improved the rig performance of 8x speed to make the rigs work in realtime in viewport
  
  Facial Rig and body rig
  Rigged: LadyBug, Marinette and Chatnoir
  
  The fist one is a Quick making of... thank you to all the team! enjoy!
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  Character TD/rigger, 3D Generalist

  Mad Snow Studios

  February 2018 - May 2018

  Ottawa, Canada Area

  Animated TV Show using Unreal Engine airing 2019 (26x3)
  Body and face rig, modeling, uv and texturing of all characters and props in the production
  Rigged all animals characters
  Rigged a huge amount of props
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  Character TD / rigger , 3D Generalist

  Mad Snow Studios

  December 2017 - January 2018

  Ottawa, Canada Area

  MarcoPolo World School is a PhD-designed early learning school app for children
  
  Modeling, Texturing, rigging, Uv
  
  Using the rig already done, i created all the new clothes (model, textures, uv and rig) for all the main characters.
  
  Rigged some props for this animated series.
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  Character TD/ Rigger

  Big Company

  November 2017 - January 2018

  Paris Area, France

  Rigged the main characters for an animated game cinematic. “Arena of Valor” project
  Full body and facial rig of the main characters. The main one is Batman and the Stone man.
  Supervised and fixed all the other rigs.
  
  The characters has been modelled by Blur Studio with mid res geo and a really detailed high poly geo.
  
  - full body rig with stretchy limbs
  - cape rigging
  - full facial expressions
  - full scalable and ready to rebuild if needed
  and many other feature

• Character TD

  NJM

  June 2017 - September 2017
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  Character Rigger TD

  Double Negative

  June 2011 - July 2012

  London, United Kingdom

  - Total Recall 2012 (Rigger/LightingTD)
  - Environment lighting
  - Rigged and skinned DigiDoubles
  - Rigged and skinned Crowds
  - Developed some scripts to speed up the rigging process and to help the rigging pipeline
  - Rigged some props
  - John Carter 2012 Disney/Pixar (CharacterTD)
  - Creature Fx Muscles, Tendons and Veins
  - Working on the deformation

  

  
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  Character Rigger TD

  Blue Zoo Productions

  December 2010 - June 2011

  London, United Kingdom

  Tree Fu Tom - BBC's - (Tv Series)
  -Rigged Main Characters of the Tv Series using a personal Autorig system and some parts with custom rig, skinning Body and Face
  -Design and Development new Facial Rig System
  -Developed new AutoRigSystem for the FacialRig to speed up the rigging process
  -Developed some script to set and mirror the SDK
  -Direct relatioship with the animation supervisors for the problem solving and add new feature on the rigs
  -Problem Solving

• Character Rigger

  Red Fish

  September 2010 - September 2010

  Florence Area, Italy

  - Developed script to automate the process of rigging of the excavator and car wheel
  - Developed script to reconstruction a modular wall

• Character Rigger

  Daniele Bogiatto Company

  June 2010 - June 2010

  Turin Area, Italy

  Rigging and animation of a eagle for a Movie Intro
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  Character Rigger

  LightCut Film

  May 2010 - May 2010

  Rome Area, Italy

  Qudrupeds Rig TV spot for World Cup(Rai - South Africa 2010)

• Character Rigger

  Lcd

  March 2010 - May 2010

  - Human characters Rig, script pipeline tools to support production pipeline
  - Script Human Character Generator to generate more 200 different characters (wip)

• 3D Generalist

  Bottega Cinema

  March 2010 - May 2010

  Florence Area, Italy

  Riso Gallo - (TV Spot 30")
  - Animation, Lighting and some textures
  - Cloth Simulation

• Freelance 3d Generalist

  Megane

  January 2010 - March 2010

  Shading - Lighting - Rendering Spot Megane Rs Coupè 2010

• Freelance 3d Generalist

  Fisheye

  November 2009 - January 2010

  "TV Spot" commercial introduction to Expo Shanghai 2010
  Dynamic domino representing the most famous monuments and personalities of Italy

• Character Rigger TD

  Dujass Film

  September 2007 - October 2009

  Rome Area, Italy

  -Developed scripts for the rig and pipeline (procedural geometry, relocation characters,check BlendShapes)
  -Design and Development a Autorig System for rigging all characters in production
  -Design and Development facial system for all characters in production
  -Skinning of some characters
  -Rigging Characters and some props
  -Support development of interface animation and development of some integrated tools interface

• Cartoon Rigging, Modeling, Lighting and Compositing -- Autodesk Maya T

  Matitanimata s.r.l

  January 2007 - September 2007

  Rome Area, Italy

  Station Break Raisat (Sky) (Modeling, Rigging cartoon characters, Lighting, Rendering and Compositing)
  Maya Teacher for external course at matitanimata s.r.l

• Modeling, Rigging

  MatitAnimatA

  January 2007 - September 2007

  Rome Area, Italy

  3D Cartoon Modeling(,Characters, Environments), Cartoon Rigging for Tv series CLICK e KAT 2

• Rigging, Modeling, Lighting, Compositing

  Matitanimata s.r.l

  August 2006 - September 2007

  Rome Area, Italy

  3D Tv Pilot (“Nonno sonno”) Modeling, Setup, Lighting Rendering and
  Compositing. Dynamic Setup and complex cartoon deformation

• Animation,Rigging, Scripting Flash

  Matitanimata s.r.l

  August 2006 - September 2007

  Rome Area, Italy

  3D Modelling and some animation of characters(Web Cartoon -- Polizia di stato) Modeling
  3d objects and Flash scripting (ActionScript) for Matitanimata site

• Dynamic Fish Rigging, Shading, Lighting, Texturing, Compositing

  Matitanimata s.r.l

  August 2006 - September 2007

  Visual Effects for Animation Movie!!!
  Dynamic Fish Rigging made in maxscript, fluid simulation (Realflow),
  Shading, Lighting, Texturing and compositing of realistic fish in live movie.

• Animator

  MatitAnimatA

  August 2006 - December 2006

  Character Rigger 3d Generalist

• Modeling, Animation, Rigging, Dynamic Cloth and Rendering

  Animapolis s.r.l

  April 2006 - July 2006

  Rome Area, Italy

  Cartoon Character for Raidue
  Modeling, Animation, Rigging, Dynamic cloth and Rendering

• Rigging, Animation, Modeling

  Animapolis s.r.l

  March 2006 - July 2006

  Spot Germany 2006 (Modeling, setup, Animation) for Italia 1.
  "Cartoon Character playing football"
  Visual Effects for “ Spot Gragnano Americani in Pasta 2006 ”.

• 3D Generalist( 3D Stduio Max)

  Animapolis Srl

  December 2005 - April 2006

  3D Artist
  Visual Effects, Modeling and a lot of compositng for Italian movieclip (M'ama M'amerà) singer Mariangela.

• Graphic Designer and coder

  ASPNET SPA Grottaferrata

  May 2004 - September 2004

  backOffice, frontOffice Web Portal service. Reorganizzation of graphic design. Coding Xsl, Javascript and html