Chase Shields

Work History

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  Senior Technical Artist

  Mighty Coconut

  July 2022 - Present

  Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

  - Unity development for Walkabout Mini Golf VR
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  Senior Unity Engineer

  BOSS AI

  February 2021 - July 2022

  Austin, Texas, United States

  - Design and engineering for enterprise software built using Unity
  - C#, JS, React, WebGL, and UWP
  - Lighting, Rendering, Performance optimization, 3D Modeling, animation, and UI engineering
  - Also developed an automated build pipeline with CI/CD hooks
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  Senior Animator

  illFonic

  November 2019 - February 2021

  Austin, Texas

  - Character animation in Unreal
  - Animation engineering in Unreal using C++ and Blueprint
  - Maya, MotionBuilder, and mocap
  - Shipped Predator Hunting Grounds & Arcadegeddon for multiplatform
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  Senior Animator

  Rooster Teeth

  July 2018 - October 2019

  Austin, Texas

  - Character animation in 1P and 3P in Unreal
  - Animation engineering using Blueprints
  - Animation Supervision
  - VFX and Shader experience
  - Shipped Vicious Circle for PC
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  Animator

  Retro Studios

  April 2017 - June 2018

  Austin, Texas

  - Character animation for Retro's proprietary game engine
  - Animation engineering
  - Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze & Metroid Prime Remastered for the Switch
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  Animator

  Twisted Pixel Games

  January 2017 - April 2017

  Austin, Texas
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  Senior Animator

  Mighty Coconut

  July 2016 - January 2017
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  Animator

  Psyop

  June 2016 - July 2016

  Los Angeles, California

  Worked on various commercial projects including: Criket Wireless, Clash of Clans, & Toyota Marai VR.
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  Animator

  Reel FX

  December 2014 - May 2016

  Dallas, TX

  Rock Dog (2015)

  
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  Freelance Animator

  MegaFive

  August 2015 - August 2015

  - Character animation for Lindsey Stirling's "We Are Giants" music video
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  Animator

  House of Moves

  September 2014 - November 2014

  Los Angeles, CA

  Unannounced In-game animation
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  Animator

  Blur Studio

  May 2014 - September 2014

  Culver City, CA

  - Character animation in XSI for Halo: The Master Chief Collection cinematics (Halo 2)
  - Character animation for Assassin's Creed Unity Commercial

  

• Freelance Animator

  Binary Digital

  August 2013 - September 2013

  - Character animation for Disney's FROZEN online marketing games

• Lead Graphic Designer

  MLT Innovations Inc.

  January 2011 - May 2013

  Design print materials, web advertisements, web sites, and any other marketing needs for clients.