Kevin Freeman

Work History

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  Senior Principal Technical Artist

  Riot Games

  April 2015 - Present

  Santa Monica, California, United States

  Spent last many years working as a Tech Artist, Animator, Team Lead, Tech Director, Senior Leader, and head Button Pusher in various phases of production. Initially working on League of Legends (proprietary engine) then transitioned to R&D to work on Riot's next wave games (primarily in Unreal Engine).
  Animator - in game asset setup and animation
  VFX - creating vfx from scratch in cascade and Niagara for prototypes
  Game Engine Systems - visual scripting using blueprints
  Pipeline dev - Character, environment, vfx and cross product and discipline pipeline work
  C++ dev - Engineer Lite, Skills: Unreal Engine

• IKO Level I Kite Instructor

  VenturesomeLife.com

  October 2014 - Present

  Teach people to kitesurf. The most fun under the sun.

• Character Animator

  Straight Diesel Studios DBA AnimationRigs.com

  April 2008 - Present
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  Character Animator

  Sony Pictures Imageworks

  January 2002 - September 2011

  "Smurfs"
  "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs"
  "Speed Racer"
  “I Am Legend”
  “Surf's Up"
  “Open Season"
  “The Lion the Witch & the Wardrobe"
  “Monster House"
  "Spider-man 2"
  "Forgotten"
• 

  Character Animator

  Sony Pictures Imageworks

  2000 - 2011
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  Technical Director/Technical Artist

  Sony Pictures Imageworks

  April 2000 - May 2003

  Hero, secondary and crowd character setup and rigging, including body and facial.
  "Speed Racer"
  "Spider-man 3"
  “The Lion the Witch & the Wardrobe”
  “Monster House”
  Prop rigging and animation control construction including: trains, tentacles, excavators, trucks, helicopters.
  “Bewitched”
  “Spider-man 2”
  “Charlies Angels 2”
  “Spider-man”

• Director Of Engineering

  Independent Witness

  January 2001 - January 2002

  Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

  Director of small team of hardware, mechanical, and software engineers as well as IC database engineer and developer responsible for building out database for tracking soft tissue injury data and vehicle services for NASCAR and various large fleet clients (taxis for example).
  Sole software developer and database engineer directly responsible for database and front end created to help track data and identify potential soft tissue injury data in NASCAR crash incidents (accounting for 1/2 million dollars per annum from NASCAR alone). Had a blast spending time traveling with NASCAR, the drivers, in the pits and cars of most races throughout the US, installing, reading, maintaining, and customizing data results based on IWI data recorders.
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  Render Wrangler/Tech Assistant

  Sony Pictures Imageworks

  January 2000 - March 2000

  Culver City, California, United States

  “What Lies Beneath”/ “Cast Away” - pipeline and Render wrangling.
  Scalable backbone setup for studio. Linux and NT based system. Shell and Perl scripting. File system management and back-up; tracking, storage, and retrieval. Render tracking and troubleshooting.
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  Graphics Software Engineer

  Evans & Sutherland

  June 1998 - December 1999

  Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

  Worked as software engineer developing low level video drivers for professional high-end real image video cards including Lightning and tornado cards. These cards were used in early highend graphics applications especially for texturing in content creation and CAD.
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  Worldwide Enterprise NT Services Consultant

  Nihon Unisys, Ltd.

  May 1997 - August 1997

  Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, United States

  Database engineering and consulting, primary work building out Norwest Financial banking databse

• Software Engineer

  3d/EYE, INC

  May 1996 - August 1996

  Atlanta, Georgia, United States

• Data Base Engineer

  Systems Research Associates

  May 1995 - August 1995

  Fairfax