Nick Woo
Senior Technical Artist / 19 yrs
Oregon
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Specialties: Character asset pipeline, rigging, scripting and API programming.
Work History
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Pipeline Support and Tool Design
Tippett Studio
January 2013 - April 2016Provide support and development of software tools and procedures to extend and enhance the core production pipeline.
Work with multiple departments, including Modeling, Animation, Matchmove, Lighting, and FX to design and implement custom production workflows.
Assist artists, technical directors, and department heads with troubleshooting workflow problems in various areas such as fur, clothing, particle effects, animation, and rendering.
Autodesk Maya API and Tool Development
Per-shot shape deformation pipeline
Efficient geometry caching and deforma
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Creature Technical Director
Industrial Light & Magic
January 2006 - July 2012Rigging, character FX (hair, cloth, flesh, and rigid body simulations), pipeline and animation tool designer
Movie credits:
Transformers
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Rango
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Red Tails
Transformers: The Ride
Battleship
The Avengers
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Education
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The Art Institute of California - San Francisco
2003 - 2005