Kee Chang

Work History

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  Animation TD

  Laika

  January 2017 - Present
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  Senior Pipeline TD / Character TD

  Sony Pictures Imageworks

  November 2008 - March 2014

  titles: The Amazing Spiderman 2
  Smurfs 2
  The Amazing Spiderman
  Green Lantern
  Smurfs
  Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland
  Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
  
  - Work and maintaining the film pipeline
  - Support/Firefighting problems for all other departments
  - Customized rigs for animators in Maya
  - Tools dev and support
  - Rigging of props using Sony's proprietary system

  

  

  
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  Technical Animator

  Rhythm & Hues Studios

  July 2007 - November 2008

  titles: They Came from Upstairs
  The Mummy 3: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
  Alvin & the Chipmunks
  
  - Cloth & fur simulations
  - Muscle triggers
  - Research & Development per shot basis on cloth and fur simulations
  - Character clean up
  - Yak rig (Mummy 3)
  - Biplane rig (Mummy 3)

  
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  Character TD / Animator

  Neversoft

  January 2006 - July 2007

  titles: Guitar Hero 3
  Tony Hawk Project 8
  
  - Improve upon existing pipeline, tools, & rigs
  - Create more animator friendly rigs and graphic user interfaces
  - Working directly with Anim. Director, Leads, Animators, Modelers, & Programmers
  - Character TD:
  Bipeds
  Facial (All Bones, rig & GUI)
  Animal (horse, dog, squirrel, rat, pigeon, vulture)
  Mechanical (skateboard)
  Skinning / painting weights of all pedestrian models
  - Create and maintain assets for Havok collision system
  - Create cloth & hair assets & simulations using Havok physics system
  - In-Game Cinematic animations
  - Facial animation

• 3D Artist - Central Technology

  Activison

  June 2005 - January 2006

  
  - Research & Design for creation of NextGen pipelines
  - Working to develop pipeline with Motion Capture department
  - Working directly with Anim. Director, Animators, & Modeling Dept.
  - Testing and feedback during the creation of Shaderworks, an Activision proprietary shader & lighting software
  - Character TD: Biped (Spiderman, Goblin, Venom)
  Facial (Bones & Blendshapes/Morph Targets, rig & GUI)
  Mechanical (Goblin’s hovering glider, cars)
  Skinning / painting weights of all models
  - Hard Surface Modelling: Building Assets
  - Working with other Activision studios to help share knew technologies and artistic advancements between Central Technologies & the studios, and also between individual studios: Treyarch, Neversoft, Raven, Infinity Ward
  - Rigging support for Raven Studios on Wolfenstein for the animation and mocap department
  - Art reviews & critiques, also game play feedback of game progress builds: True Crime 2, Shrek Super Slam, Over the Hedge, Tony Hawk American Wasteland, Gun