Dorota Sikorska

Dorota Sikorska

senior rigging td/ software developer/animator

Senior Character TD / Mid-level Software Developer / 25 yrs

Swindon/London/Bristol

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Principal Technical Animator

Blood & Truth (2019)

Monster Trucks (2017)

The Jungle Book (2016)

Goosebumps (2015)

The Martian (2015)

Ray's Big Idea (2015)

In the Heart of the Sea (2015)

Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (2014)

Character TD

The Tale of Despereaux (2008)

Underdog (2007)

Work History

  • Software Developer

    MPC

    May 2015 - May 2016
    London

    RnD project on deformation of faces, KL deformers, Fabric Engine integration into the rigging pipeline

  • Software Developer

    MPC

    April 2015 - April 2015
    London, United Kingdom

    RND: Research and development project for facial deformation. Integration of Fabric Engine into the rigging pipeline. KL deformers.

  • senior rigging technical director

    MPC

    June 2014 - April 2015
    London, United Kingdom

    projects:
    Jungle Book
    The Martian
    Goosebumps
    Monster Trucks
    The night in the museum 3 (Secret of the Tomb)

  • creature td

    Double Negative

    August 2013 - March 2014
    London

    the only creature td on a movie project "in the heart of the sea", responsible for rigging all underwater creatures, development in python

  • lead character technical director

    Aardman Animations

    April 2009 - April 2013
    Bristol

    development of automatic rigging system and rigging pipeline, animation and modelling tools, rigging on production+supervising others rigging and using my tools, + 2 years of supervising modelling

  • character td/ rigger

    Framestore

    April 2006 - September 2008
    London

    development of automatic rigging system and rigging tools for feature "the tale of Despereaux" and rigging+facial dev for a dog on Disney's "Underdog"

  • rigger/animator

    Blue Zoo Productions

    February 2006 - April 2006
    rigging, animation

    rigging and animating characters for Nicleodeon

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Education

  • Maya API

    online courses by Chad Vernon

    2013 - 2013

  • Computer Science

    SAFARI: online technical courses

    2012 - 2012

  • animation

    Escape Studios

    2008 - 2008

  • rigging, animation

    3rd Decementer London event

    2006 - 2006

  • vfx production course (5 months)

    Escape Studios

    2005 - 2006

  • character rigging/animation with Alias Wavefront

    2002 - 2002

  • Master of Science (MSc) Computer Science SINT

    Wroclaw Technical University

    September 1992 - September 1996

  • MSc in software engineering

    Wroclaw University of Science and Technology

    1992 - 1996

  • Bachelor of Science (BSc) combined computing + German

    University of Paisley

    September 1994 - June 1995

  • BSc in computer science

    University of the West of Scotland

    1994 - 1995