Enoch Ihde

Work History

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  Lead Character Technical Director

  Sony Pictures Imageworks

  January 2021 - Present

  Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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  Sony Pictures Animation

  January 2021 - April 2023

  
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  Senior Character Technical Director

  Sony Pictures Imageworks

  July 2014 - January 2021

  Vancouver, BC, Canada
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  Freelance Technical Director

  Psyop

  December 2013 - April 2014

  Venice, California

  Design crowd systems using ICE, cards system and Arnold Procedurals.
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  Freelance Artist

  Self Employed

  July 2006 - April 2014

  Provide a range of artistic services on a contract basis including product visualization, 3D modeling, vector art, graphic design consultation.
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  Rigging Development Technical Director

  Blur Studio

  March 2012 - September 2013

  Venice, CA

  Maintain existing rigging, animation, rig publishing tools. Contribute to abstracted software wrapper libraries. Develop new animation tools. Extend ICE based crowd solutions. Evaluate third party software for studio use. Beta test new software, evaluate new releases of Softimage for suitable studio deployment. Consult with other technical points of contact and contribute to solutions not necessarily pertaining to rigging/animation.

  

  

  

  

  
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  Lead Character TD / Rigging Lead / TD - Pipeline / Lead Facial Rigging

  Blur Studio

  January 2011 - March 2012

  Create and maintain tools to facilitate streamlined rigging and animation workflow.
  Create, test and implement new rigging approaches to improve animator interaction, deformations, management of geometry components, etc eg. skin sliding, custom built morph target solutions, etc.
  Build tools to expedite integration in to rigs.
  Design new facial rigging solutions & implement in to pipeline.
  Optimize existing systems to increase efficiency.
  Responsible for project planning, rigging production bidding, supervision, task delegation.
  Technical supervision of character models adhering to rigging needs, technical supervision of rigs created within department.
  Technical supervision and development of facial rigging pipeline, several solutions used: FaceRobot as well as custom approaches used in conjunction with FaceRobot or standalone.
  Rig and envelope characters, props, and vehicles for a wide range of projects, ranging from realistic to cartoony.

  

  

  

  
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  Rigger / Character TD / Facial Rigger

  Blur Studio

  December 2007 - December 2010

  
  Rig and envelope characters, props, and vehicles for a wide range of projects, ranging from realistic to cartoony.
  Create and maintain tools to facilitate streamlined rigging and animation workflow.
  Technical supervision of character models adhering to rigging needs, technical supervision of rigs created within department.
  Technical supervision and development of facial rigging pipeline, several solutions used: FaceRobot as well as custom approaches used in conjunction with FaceRobot or standalone.
  Creation of new rigging and deformation solutions to improve quality and reduce implementation time.
  
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  Freelance Rigger

  Blur Studio

  July 2007 - December 2007

  Venice, CA

  
  Rig and envelope characters, props, and vehicles for a wide range of projects, ranging from realistic to cartoony.
  Create and maintain tools to facilitate streamlined rigging and animation workflow.
  

• Character Technical Director

  Threshold Animation

  March 2007 - July 2007

  
  Rig and envelope characters, props, and vehicles in Maya.
  Devise solutions and tools to improve workflow.
  Research and develop rigging solutions for principal characters, vehicles and props.
  Work with modeling, animation, and texture regarding technical and artistic requirements of assets.
  Supervise and delegate responsiblities to department of four TDs/riggers.
  

• Compositor

  Barnyard the Movie

  April 2006 - June 2006

  
  Final composites for film in Softimage|XSI and Digital Fusion.
  Adjust lighting in comp, render passes, etc in order to reach approved look.
  

• Shot/Character Finaling Artist

  Barnyard the Movie

  July 2005 - April 2006

  
  Responsible for delivery of healthy assets to lighting.
  Included hair simulation using custom hair dynamics system and/or syflex, animation cleanup, layout fixes, etc as well as scene, layers, and pass organization.
  

• Freelance Artist

  EMICCS

  January 2003 - July 2005

  
  Contracted out illustration, drafting, computer support, web design, 3D modeling, architectural visualization to wide spectrum of clients.