As a senior animator, my jobs pretty straightforward. Production-wise it's assessing the game's art requirements, brain-storming ideas with my AD and teammates, and then executing such said ideas using any mix of Photoshop, AfterEffects, and Maya. Management-wise I help identify roadblocks and help assist on resolutions, and ultimately fill in for my AD should she be away.
Senior Animator
DarkForge Games
March 2013 - December 2015
As a Senior Animator at DarkForge, my primary responsibilities are rigging characters and npcs, animating full sets of locomotion and combat motions, and working with our Engineer to get the full character and animations exported and imported into Unity. I also contribute to the marketing side of things via trailers and motion graphics.
Contract Animator
Vicarious Visions
October 2012 - November 2012
Animated all of the Skylanders and Giant's victories for Skylanders: Cloud Patrol for iOS, and Android platforms.
Contract Animator
High 5 Games
September 2012 - September 2012
Assisted with animating 3 Asian dance forms for an undisclosed Casino Game.
Contract Animator
Kabam
August 2012 - September 2012
Rigged, and animated tanks, air ships, turrets, and mech's for Project Phoenix.
Contract Animator
New Pixel
June 2012 - July 2012
Rigged, animated, and rendered a penguin fishing, dancing, falling over, and a fish being caught for GTECH's Cool Cash instant win game.
Senior Animator
38 Studios
December 2006 - June 2012
Instrumental in the hiring process and responsible for building the senior art team. Explored various visual styles, and evaluated a slew of 3rd party engines. Created the Green Monster Games logo, and the company mascot "Munch". After a shift in the company's focus, I designed the 38 Studios logo and the company's Brand IP bible. Throughout the concept, prototyping and production process, I helped with UI Design, Web Design, Marketing, as well as my official duties as an animator. I was the principal for the Mounts system and responsible for its look an
Animator/Artist II
Sony Online Entertainment
April 2002 - December 2006
Created hundreds of NPC and Player animations as well as cleaned up MoCap data for EverQuest II and its first 3 expansions. Also created a slew of 1st person, vehicle enter/exit animations, as well as all of the BFR locomotion & interaction animations for PlanetSide and its 2 expansions.
On EverQuest II and its first 3 expansions I worked on Gnolls, Undead, Aviaks, Climbing/Scaling, Drakes, Griffons, Lord Vymn, as well as the Froglok monk animation set.
On Dark Kingdom I was responsible for the peasant animations as well as the evil goat men baddies foun
3D Artist/Animator
West Creek Studios
February 1999 - April 2002
Modeled, textured, lit, rendered, and even ran cloth and hair simulations for The First Easter and The First Christmas. Art-directed, modeled, textured, and rendered the intro for the show "Primary Focus" that aired regularly on PBS.
