Kyle Schaugaard

Work History

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  Lead Cinematic Designer

  Deck Nine Games

  January 2021 - Present

  Leading the Cinematic team for narratively driven, choose your own adventure cinematic games. The studio's most recent release is Life is Strange: True Colors.
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  Previs/Layout Artist

  Halon Entertainment

  October 2018 - November 2019

  Santa Monica

  Cinematography, character and creature animation, lighting, VFX, and Unreal Engine rendering
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  Telltale Games

  ? - September 2018

  
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  Lead Cinematic Artist

  Telltale Games

  March 2014 - September 2018

  San Rafael CA

  Lead Cinematic Animator: Run a team of 15-40 cinematic animators (fluctuates based on deadlines), creating schedules, training/teaching more junior members of the team, working to solve issues with other departments IE: Environment, Animation, Writing, Design, UI. Work directly with the Episode Director to help the cinematic animators hit the cinematic and emotional beats of the episodes.
  
  While continuing the normal tasks as a cinematic animator of creating a scene, based off of a script. In charge of camera work, timing, editing, all character acting (including all background characters). Work directly with the VFX and SFX teams to get the post production to look and sound the best. Constantly in communication with other departments to keep up to date on changes, to the scene/design.
  
  Guardians of the Galaxy: Lead on Episode 1
  Walking Dead Season 3 New Frontier: Lead on Episode 1
  Minecraft: Story Mode: Episodes 1 - 8 Lead on Episode 5
  Walking Dead: Michonne Episode 3
  Tales From The Borderlands: Episodes 1 - 5
  Game of Thrones: A Telltale Series: Episodes 1 - 3
  Walking Dead Season 2: Episodes 3 - 5

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

• Lead Graphic Designer

  Run Or Dye

  February 2013 - December 2013

  Sandy, UT

  Lead a team of designers to create all merchandise, marketing materials, equipment, etc. for a 5k Fun Run company.
  
  I have made Facebook and Google ad's, designed websites, created marketing material, designed merchandise, shot video and photographs of events, designed trailer wraps for the equipment trailers, designed maps for each race, and various other design related tasks.

• Cinematics Animator

  WBGames Seattle

  July 2009 - November 2011

  Kirkland WA

  work with camera's and animation for a "shared services" Cinematics team under WB Games.
  
  Lord of the Rings War in the North: creating in-game cinematics and sequences on my own, as well as
  work with a 3-man team to create the War in the North intro Cinematic. Storyboards, Camera Direction,
  Biped Animation. Also supported design team on "conversations," directing cameras, and clean up
  animation.
  F.E.A.R. 3: Direct Mocap session, and massive mocap cleanup/processing.
  Unannounced Vertical Slice: Camera Direction, Vehicle Animation
  Unannounced Title: Design Support for gameplay cameras.
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  Associate Cinematic Animator

  Surreal Software

  August 2008 - July 2009

  This Is Vegas: "Tier 3" Cinematics - direct camera work, and wrangle pre-created animation cycles/mocap
  to tell story, and direct the pacing of the scenes. "Tier 1" Cinematics - major dialogue, and character
  development. Directed Camera's, based off of pre-drawn Storyboards, and feedback from the team.