Kaitlyn Peplow Prestia

Kaitlyn Peplow Prestia

Technical Animator/Cloth/Hair TD seeking employment in San F

Mid-level Technical Animator / 15 yrs

San Francisco, CA

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cfx artist

Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)

Technical Director

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (2013)

cloth/hair td

Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)

Technical Director

Hotel Transylvania (2012)

Technical Director

The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)

Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked (2011)

Captain America: Super Soldier (2011)

Red Faction: Armageddon (2011)

Thor: God of Thunder (2011)

Tron: Evolution (2010)

Technical Animator

Madden 16

Technical Animator

NBA Live 15

Technical Animator

Madden 15

Animation Reel
Cloth/Hair Character FX Reel
3D simulation artist and animator with experience in Maya and Motion Builder, along with several proprietary programs. I specialize in setting up and simming cloth simulations, and have done keyframe animation as well as editing motion capture data. Some experience in python scripting and writing batch processors.

Specialties: cloth/muscles/hair/fur sim, mocap, animation, working well with teams

Worked on movies:
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2
Oz: The Great and Powerful
Hotel Transylvania
The Amazing Spider-Man
Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked

Worked on game titles:
Madden NFL 16
NBA Live 15
Madden NFL 15
Red Faction: Armageddon
Tron: Evolution
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2011

Worked on game trailers:
Thor: God of Thunder
Captain America: Super Soldier
Work History

  • Senior Animator

    PlayStation Studios Visual Arts

    July 2021 - March 2025

  • cfx artist

    Digital Domain

    May 2017 - May 2017

  • Technical Animator

    Electronic Arts

    November 2013 - August 2015

    Madden NFL 16
    NBA Live 15
    Madden NFL 15

    Led animators to fix up post play animation workflows and n-man upgrades.

    Edited/cleaned mocap, database creation and placement for the game to choose from, worked with programmers to create character interactions.

    Also wrote python scripts for MotionBuilder for animators to use in several files, and batch processors in C# for proprietary programs.

  • Technical Director

    Sony Pictures Imageworks

    January 2012 - August 2013

    Cloth/hair/git on Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
    Cloth and hair sim on Oz: the Great and Powerful
    Cloth and hair sim on Hotel Transylvania
    Skin and muscle sim, web tether placement and sim, on The Amazing Spider-Man

  • Rhythm & Hues Studios

    July 2011 - October 2011

    Alvin and the Chipmunks 3: Chipwrecked
    Cloth/hair/fur/etc simulation

  • Pendulum Studios

    May 2010 - June 2011

    Hand key animating alien rigs, cleaning and editing mocap animation, cloth simulation, and creating 3D animatics for video game cinematics for:

    Tron: Evolution
    Red Faction: Armageddon
    Thor: God of Thunder (game trailer only)
    Captain America: Super Soldier (game trailer only)

  • Callan Digital Studios

    April 2010 - April 2010

    Fixing animation and rigging problems with Maya and MotionBuilder

  • Animator

    Electronic Arts

    October 2009 - March 2010

    Tiger Woods PGA Tour '11 (multi-platform)

    Editing mocap, creating lipsyncs, creating camera paths, some keyframing, testing and debuging animations and cameras.

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Education

  • M.S. in Interactive Entertainment: ArtM.S., Interactive Entertainment:

    University of Central Florida

    2008 - 2009

  • B.A. in Digital Media: Visual LanguageB.A., Digital Media: Visual Lang

    University of Central Florida

    2003 - 2008