Ericka Go

Work History

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  Creature Technical Director

  Industrial Light & Magic

  June 2024 - June 2025

  London, United Kingdom
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  CFX Artist

  Axis Animation

  April 2024 - May 2024
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  CFX Artist

  Axis Animation

  October 2023 - November 2023

  GB
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  Tech Anim (CFX) Artist

  MPC

  June 2021 - July 2023

  Show Involvements:
  
  • The Little Mermaid (2023)
  • Prehistoric Planet 2 (2023)
  • Silo (2023)
  • Disenchanted (2022)
  • Rescue Rangers (2022)
  
  Currently working within the TechAnim film department which involves:
  • Running cloth and fur dynamics in Maya + vellum fat and fur setups in Houdini
  • Working on fixing animation caches using corrective blendshapes, Maya deformers & sculpting tools and in-house rigging tools
  • Running quality control checks and ensuring that the caches sent downstream to fx and lighting are stable and ready to be picked up
  • Creating slap comps from playblasts or Katana renders using Nuke to present dailies to leads and supervisors
  • Sharing knowledge and ideas by documenting workflows and useful information through confluence pages
  • Being a buddy and training new joiners to show them the ropes of the MPC pipeline and workflow
  • Troubleshooting issues and communicating directly to people to solve problems that take place
  • Flagging issues to production, leads, supervisors and HoDs and to appropriate department channels involved in the production to ensure that requirements are met and transferred across the pipeline
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  Layout Artist

  MPC

  June 2021 - September 2021

  Prior to working in the TechAnim team I got to be part of the Layout department and worked on:
  • Creating shot packages downstream - placing assets, lidars and cameras in the scene ready to be picked up by animation
  • Ingesting matchmove camera data and placing the camera according to the correct position based on the environment and in the shot context to ensure continuity is kept
  • Transferring rigs from matchmove/roto anim/previs versions on to the correct asset variation
  • Basic blocking, set designing, animation and adding textures and lighting to present work to the VFX supervisor and the client within the shot sequence context
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  Creature Apprentice

  Double Negative

  February 2019 - August 2020

  London, UK

  As a Creature Apprentice worked closely with leads and senior artists for VFX films on tasks such as:
  
  • Rigging digital-double characters, vehicles and props using Maya and proprietary rigging tools
  • Copying and applying weights to models with different LODs (level of details)
  • Updating skinning when new version of models are published
  • Sculpting deformation fixes and adding detail on top of cached cloth simulations and animation using blendshape and delta mush deformers
  • Performing quality control checks for rigs by running range of motion animation tests and fixing broken rigs
  • Communicating with modelling team to apply freeze transforms and to organise the grouping in the model hierarchy
  • Developing a feature on a procedural rig generating tool for a 5-day employer set project using Python, Maya commands and the in-house rigging framework API through Git Repository workflows
  • Shadowing character effects (CFX) artists to learn how to setup vellum hair setups using Houdini

• NextGen Bootcamp Candidate

  NextGen Futures

  June 2018 - August 2018

  London, United Kingdom

  Collaborated with a 6-member team to develop from concept to rendered version of a 3D diorama of London’s 'Soho From Time' which involved:
  • Researching and gathering reference from the location of the scene
  • Learning to make market props for the environment using Maya, Substance Painter and ZBrush
  • Optimising environment scene lightings and solutions for rendering neon light assets in Arnold
  • Developed public speaking from presenting the final output of the work in front of employers and industry professionals

• Publicity - Choral Exhibitioner

  University of Greenwich Choir

  October 2014 - May 2017

  London, United Kingdom

  Being a part of the Choral Exhibition scholarship scheme involved helping and managing rehearsals and concerts along with a team of committees. Appointed as the role of a publicity officer, I was able to:
  
  • Created posters and flyers using InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop.
  • Displaying posters around the campus and delegating members of the choir to put the posters up on different campuses.
  • Helped manage and update social media accounts to further promote events and the university choir.
  • Also took on a leadership role by being involved in welcoming new and old members to rehearsals.
  • Helped assist the choir conductor by taking the initiative when the choir conductor is away.
  • Developed confidence in communication and teamworking skills along with fellow choral exhibitioners when staging committee meetings and during rehearsals.