Jeremy Carson

Work History

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  Lead Technical Artist

  Ghost Story Games

  May 2014 - October 2018

  Boston, MA
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  Lead Technical Animator

  Irrational Games

  September 2011 - May 2014

  Greater Boston Area

  - Work as part of an interdisciplinary team to create systemic behavior for Elizabeth companion AI, including placed contextual opportunistic animation, emotion system, and additive audio-based animation system
  - Own animation content features related to Elizabeth character and act as animation point of contact for troubleshooting Elizabeth
  - Establish and support flexible camera and character cinematics pipeline
  - Act as part of the narrative team to create and maintain many narrative cutscenes throughout Bioshock: Infinite using Unreal's Kismet scripting system
  - Lead a team of technical animators to provide support primarily to animation, character, voiceover, and design departments
  - Establish procedural facial animation pipeline using FaceFX
  - Handle motion capture data and retargetting for in-game use

  

• Character Lead / Sr Technical Animator

  Ubisoft - Red Storm Entertainment

  August 2008 - September 2011

  - Drive vision, create consistency, and manage production for a team of several character artists
  - Design character production pipeline and create tools to expedite production process during short production phase
  - Design character animation pipeline across MotionBuilder and Max

  
• 

  Cinematic Technical Artist

  Midway Games

  December 2007 - August 2008

  - Participate in most phases of 3D pipeline (modelling, texturing, rigging, animating) for pre-rendered and in-game cinematic sequences on a central group supporting all of Midway Games.
  - Help to establish internal pipelines quickly from project to project, and improve pipelines that already exist.

  

• Technical Artist

  EA Chicago

  August 2007 - December 2007

  - Maintained character pipeline for detailed next-gen game
  - Created MEL-based animation tools for animators
  - Inherited and improved previous facial rig to improve performance, animator workflow, and iteration time

  

• Technical Animator

  EA Los Angeles

  September 2005 - July 2007

  - Responsible for managing animation pipeline: seeing asset production from content creation to Unreal 3 Engine runtime, writing scripts to expedite animator workflow
  - Character setup: partially responsible for character rig, fully responsible for all weapons, vehicles, and world object rigging and setup
  - Help with character animation

• Asset Integration Intern

  EA Los Angeles

  June 2005 - August 2005