Marcus Erbar

Marcus Erbar

Senior Technical Animator / 18 yrs

Burbank, CA, United States

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Character Effects Supervisor

Mila (2021)

Character Effects Technical Director

Trolls (2016)

Character Effects Technical Director

Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016)

Character FX TD

Home (2015)

Penguins of Madagascar (2014)

Character Effetcs Artist

How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014)

Character FX TD

The Croods (2013)

Character Effects Artist

Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Masters (2011)

Puss in Boots (2011)

Character FX TD

Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011)

Technical Director

Gulliver's Travels (2010)

Character Effects Technical Director

Kung Fu Panda Holiday (2010)

Technical Director

2012: Time for Change (2010)

Matchmove Artist

Case 39 (2010)

Visual Effects

The A-Team (2010)

Technical Director

Avatar: Creating the World of Pandora (2010)

CG Effects Artist

Jonah Hex (2010)

Technical Animator

Avatar (2009)

Technical Animator

2012 (2009)

Matchmove Artist

Aliens in the Attic (2009)

X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)

Technical Animator

The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)

Cloth Simulations

Bedtime Stories (2008)

Camera Tracker

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)

Technical Animator

Meet Dave (2008)

Technical Animator

The Incredible Hulk (2008)

Matchmove Artist / Visual Effects

Jumper (2008)

Camera Tracking

Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007)

Visual Effects

Boneyard: Where Machines End Their Lives

Marcus is a Technical Animator with more than 9 years of production experience in feature film, TV and commercials.

With a solid Computer Science and arts background, he easily interfaces between the technical and artistic side. He has done extensive shot work and development for cloth, hair, RBD and crowds.

Depending on the production schedule, he has scripted quick prototypes of tools, automated I/O data handling between applications, and wrote fully featured plugins to bridge gaps in the pipeline and make artists’ work more efficient.
Work History

  • Software Engineer

    ZF

    January 2018 - January 2021

  • Character FX TD

    DreamWorks Animation

    May 2010 - February 2018

    Responsible for cloth development, dynamic hair and fur setup, as well as efficient one-off solutions.

    Deployed Maya plugins and general Linux tools to the studio pipeline and provided support throughout their lifecycle, including updates that further benefited the productions.

  • Technical Animator

    Hydraulx

    August 2007 - May 2010

    Lead cloth/crowds development and interfaced with animation and lighting for clean hand-offs through hectic schedules.

    Integrated Massive into studio's maya/mentalray-centric character animation pipeline. Authored python and bash scripts to move animation back and forth from Massive to Maya as needed. Kept integrity between modeling output and render input without either department having to adapt their core workflow.

  • 3D Generalist

    Psyop

    June 2008 - June 2008

    Camera Tracking, Rotomation and rigging support on BMW commercial "yet"

  • 3D Generalist

    Cinevative

    December 2005 - July 2007

    Modeling and Camera Tracking on several commercials and event-videos in the Greater LA area.

  • 3D Generalist / TD

    Perpetual Motion Films

    September 2005 - May 2007

    Modeling, Animation and Scene Setup for several History Channel documentaries.
    - Boneyard - Where Machines End Their Lives (feature)
    - The Russian Navy (feature)
    - Boneyards (series, 1 season)

  • Web Designer

    Visions Mediadesign

    May 2000 - May 2004

    HTML / PHP / Flash web design and development for various small and mid-sized companies.

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Education

  • MFA, Dramatic Media

    The University of Georgia

    2004 - 2007

  • BSc, Computer Graphics

    Universität Koblenz-Landau, Campus Koblenz

    2001 - 2004