Marco Iannaccone

Work History

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  Rigging Mentor

  Think Tank Training Centre

  June 2021 - Present

  Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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  Rigging Supervisor

  Skydance Animation

  March 2024 - September 2024

  Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain · Hybrid
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  Rigging Supervisor

  Animal Logic

  September 2021 - March 2024

  Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

  Supervisor on Netflix's animated feature "Leo"
  
  -Managing 25+ rigging artist between Vancouver and Sydney.
  - Responsible for hiring, interviewing, performance reviews of artists.
  - Hands on in production through plugins / tools development and body + facial rigging.
  - Mentoring riggers to improve their artistic and technical skills through dailies and workshops
  - Responsible for show bidding
  - Working with CG supervisor and modelling / cfx / crowd
  dept to provide clear directions on what's needed (or what needs to be provided) by the rigging dept
  - Working with RnD on improving our toolset
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  Head of Rigging and CFX

  Crafty Apes

  February 2021 - September 2021

  Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

  - Responsible for development of asset (model QC, asset publishing), rigging (rig builder, plugins), cfx (cloth, hair) in Maya.
  - Responsible for show bidding for both rigging and cfx
  - Tried to improve the overall pipeline.
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  Rigging / CFX Supervisor

  Goldtooth Creative

  August 2020 - February 2021

  Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

  - Managing the rigging and cfx teams.
  - Responsible for development of rigging, cfx and mocap pipelines in Maya.
  - Making sure asset are up to standard in both quality and performance.
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  Creature Supervisor

  Method Studios

  March 2019 - April 2020

  Vancouver, Canada

  VES 2020 Nominee:
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5552944/awards
  
  Show supervisor for:
  The Witches by Robert Zemeckis
  
  Supervising Rigging and CFX workflow and asset while writing tool and plugins in both Maya and Houdini.
  
  Development of Houdini Creature Pipe including:
  
  - Porting of CFX tools and plugins from Maya to Houdini.,
  - Muscle pipe.
  - Cloth pipe.
  - Hair pipe.
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  Lead Creature TD

  Industrial Light & Magic

  March 2019 - June 2019

  Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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  Rigging/Techanim Supervisor (Show)

  Method Studios

  August 2017 - March 2019

  Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

  Supervising the rigging/techanim workflow (anim rig, muscles, face, PSD, cloth, hair, skin simulation, etc) and tools while still getting the hands dirty to help deliver the following shows:
  
  - Marvel's Black Panthers
  - Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
  - Aquaman
  - Ford Vs Ferrari
  
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  Lead Rigging TD

  Method Studios

  October 2015 - August 2017

  Vancouver, Canada

  Lead Rigging TD on the following projects:
  
  - King Arthur
  - Marvel Dr. Strange
  - Marvel Spiderman Homecoming

  

  
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  Technical Animator

  MPC

  June 2015 - October 2015

  London, United Kingdom

  Cloth, Fur, Environment simulation for the following project:
  
  - Disney's Jungle Book
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  Rigging TD

  MPC

  July 2014 - October 2015

  London, United Kingdom

  Rigging TD for the following projects:
  
  - Disney's Jungle Book
  - Night at the Museum 3
  - P469 Ride for Universal Studio.
  - Terminator genesis
  - Fantastic four
  - PAN
  - The Revenant
  - Mockingjay Part 2
  - Batman vs Superman
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  Character TD

  Milestone s.r.l.

  February 2014 - June 2014

  Milano

  - Developing the rigging pipeline for current and next-gen games.
  - Creation of tools for animation and Motion Capture.
  - Characters Body and face rigging.
  - Scripting.
  - Blend Tree and animation behavior.
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  Rigger

  MAD Entertainment srl

  November 2011 - February 2014

  Napoli, Italia

  Maya Body and Face Rigger plus Python/MEL tool developer for:
  
  - Main character "Sergio" for the 70' Animation Film "L'arte Della Felicità"
  - RAI "Cantata Dei Pastori" all characters
  - Aleteia and Skraak adverts
  
  Blender Body and Face rigger for an unreleased animated tv series

• 3D Animation Lessons

  Scuola Italiana di Comix

  March 2013 - December 2013

  Napoli, Italia

  I'm giving some lessons about 3D Character Animation in Autodesk Maya.

• VFX Artist, Junior Animator

  Tilapia Animation Studio

  June 2011 - November 2011

  Animation fix, Pipeline scripting, Ocean lookdev for 20' Tv Special "Il Piccolo Sansereno: il Mistero Dell'uovo Di Virgilio"