Sascha Kremers

Work History

• 

  Character Technical Director

  Sony Pictures Imageworks

  December 2014 - Present

  

  
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  Rigging Department Lead

  TRIXTER

  May 2014 - December 2014

  Munich Area, Germany

  

• Rigger (Freelancer)

  OPTIX Hamburg

  July 2014 - July 2014

  Commercial project: 8x4
• 

  Animation Technical Director

  TRIXTER

  January 2013 - May 2014

  Munich Area, Germany

  Maintaining and extending the in-house animation pipeline.
  In my time as Animation TD we cleaned up old tools and wrote a big part of the new animation pipeline at trixter using PySide, Python and C++
  Tools included:
  - scene manager (scene-setup, open/publish scene)
  - asset manager (open/publish assets
  - mirror animation
  - poselibrary for storing and applying animation poses
  - character picker for quick selecting certain parts of the character (divided into body/face/extra)
  - ghosting tool
  - batch tool for automising tasks like scene setup, export alembics, creating playblasts
  and many more small tools to help animators in their daily life
• 

  Rigging Technical Director

  TRIXTER

  July 2012 - January 2013

  Munich Area, Germany

  Implementing animation control rigging systems for complex characters using Maya with strong focus on body and facial rigging
  Close collaboration with CG Supervisor and Rigging Lead
  Developing tools and plug-ins to optimise animation and rigging workflow
• 

  Technical Animation

  Yager Development

  2011 - July 2012

  Berlin Area, Germany

  - Rigging Quadruped, Biped, Mechanical, Bird characters.
  - Defining a new Rigging Pipeline.
  - Wrote a Modular Rigsystem (Python).
  - Mocap import to Maya pipeline (Python).
  - Writing Python Maya tools to support animators in their daily workflow.
  - Writing Python MotionBuilder scripts.
  - Supporting the Pipeline Dev Team in their tasks.
  - Creation and Implementation of Matinees in Unreal for Cutscene setup.
  - Animation Import, Export Maya to Unreal.

  
• 

  Character Technical Director (Freelancer)

  BOX

  2009 - November 2011

  London, United Kingdom

  - Rigging Quadruped, Biped, Mechanical, Bird characters.
  - Writing Python Maya tools to support animators in their daily workflow.
  - Wrote a Modular Rigsystem (Python).
  - Mocap pipeline

• 3D Artist

  DerDesignPool

  2007 - 2008

  Kreisfreie Stadt Aachen Area, Germany