Florian Linner

Florian Linner

Maya expert with focus on Pipeline Rigging, and Modeling

Senior Character TD / Senior Pipeline TD / 20 yrs

Bremen, Germany

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Rigging Lead / Hair And Cloth Simulation

AINBO: Spirit of the Amazon (2022)

Animation Technical Director / Pipeline Technical Director

Little Brother, Big Trouble: A Christmas Adventure (2012)

Character Technical Director / Motion Capture

Animals United (2010)

Character Technical Director

Impy's Wonderland (2008)

Character Technical Director

The Secret of Loch Ness (2008)

Character Technical Director

Hui Buh (2006)

Technical Director

Charlie 2 (2006)

Creature Technical Director

King Kong (2005)

Filmbox Artist / Character Modeler / Digital Character Setup

Boo, Zino & the Snurks (2004)

Skills
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I work in the industry for over 20 years now. For the past four years, I’ve worked as a Pipeline TD and before that, I primarily focused on rigging, including work on King Kong at WetaFX, and prior to that, I did modeling.
As a Pipeline TD at Studio Isaranimation, I am responsible for all Maya-related tasks. This includes developing tools for modeling and set dressing, managing data ingestion from external partners, automating data flow between departments, and handling everything related to Yeti and XGen. Since we use ShotGrid as our asset management system, I’m familiar with the Shotgrid API, as well as the Maya Python API, Maya C++ API, AWS API and Tractor API . The Studio Isaranimation pipeline is USD-based, so I also have a solid understanding of USD. Our pipeline primarily runs on Linux.
I've been rigging characters and props for many movies and commercials. I wrote an autorigger, a pipeline tool, C++-maya-plugins and many little maya-tools to make life easier. I've been asisting animators with their technical problems in many projects as an animation TD. On https://linez3d.com/ you find more information about me like my CV, in the gallery clips of my work so far or the maya-plugins I made. And here's my linkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/florian-linner-2057801/ And my Imdb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1870102/

Work History
  • Pipeline TD

    Isaranimation

    March 2021 - January 2024
    Munich
  • Lead Rigger

    Katuni

    January 2019 - January 2020
    Bremen

    Rigging (Advanced Skeleton), Cloth Hair Simulation

  • Pipeline Developer

    NHB Studios

    February 2016 - December 2018
    Hamburg Area, Germany

    Pipieline Development

  • Animator

    Mackevision

    January 2016 - January 2016
    Bremen
  • Character TD

    Studio Rakete

    October 2015 - November 2015
    Bremen

    Rigging Char FX

  • Android Developer

    28APPs UG

    January 2015 - September 2015
    Bremen

    Android Development

  • Android Developer

    28APPs UG

    January 2015 - September 2015
  • Characted TD

    A-Film

    June 2015 - July 2015
    Bremen

    Rigging

  • Character TD

    A-Film

    March 2015 - March 2015

    Little Vampire Teaser

  • Character TD

    Studio 352

    December 2014 - December 2014

    Richard The Stork

  • Character TD

    Studio Rakete GmbH

    November 2014 - November 2014

    My Fairy Troublemaker & Me Trailer

  • Android Developer

    28APPs UG

    October 2014 - October 2014
  • Rigging Supervisor

    Studio Rakete

    March 2013 - June 2014
    Bremen Area, Germany

    Oops! Noah's gone...

  • Animation TD, Character TD, Pipeline TD

    Ulysses Films

    June 2011 - February 2013
    Hamburg

    Niko 2 Little Brother, big trouble
    Oops Noah's gone Animation Test
    Richard - Teaser

  • Lead Character Technical Director

    Ulysses Films

    January 2010 - March 2011
    Bremen

    Thor - The Edda Chronicles

  • Character Technical Director

    Ambient Entertainment

    November 2006 - March 2010

    Projects: "Urmel voll in Fahrt", "Die Konferenz der Tiere"

  • Character Technical Director

    TRIXTER

    October 2005 - April 2007

    Projects: "HuiBuh", "Das Geheimnis von Loch Ness", "Charlie II - Das total verrueckte Wunderauto", "Mission Maulwurf II - Handtuchkrieg auf Mallorca"

  • Creature Technical Director

    Wētā FX

    September 2004 - September 2005

    Project: "King Kong"

  • Technical Director

    Filmakademie Ludwigsburg

    January 2004 - February 2004

    Project: "Virtual Artist" (research project)
    TD Facial Setup, Programming, MotionCapture

  • Technical Director

    Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg/Institute of Anima

    2004 - 2004
  • Modeler, Character Setup, Motion Capture

    Ambient Entertainment

    March 2002 - December 2003

    Project: CGI Feature Film "Back to Gaya" (Boo, Zino and the Snurks)

  • MotionCapture, Modeler Character Setup

    H5B5 Media AG

    April 2001 - November 2001

    Projects: "Ice Planet", "The Biggest Step of All", "Was Ist Was TV"

  • Modeler

    I-D Media AG

    October 1999 - March 2001
Education
  • Hochschule der Medien Stuttgart

    1996 - 2000