Danilo Pinheiro

Danilo Pinheiro

Senior Rigging Artist / 23 yrs

Belo Horizonte, Brazil

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3D Rigger

Starbright (2024)

Rigger

The Lost Chapter of Kelileh & Demneh (2023)

Character Rigging

Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach (2021)

Rigger Supervisor

Umbrella (2020)

Rigger / Rigging Supervisor

Dogs Trust (2020)

Rigger

Lil Dicky: Earth (2019)

3D Rigging

Love, Death & Robots (2019)

Rigging

Cracké (2016)

Character Setup Lead

Dino Aventuras (2015)

Character Rigger

Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (2013)

Rigger

The Assailant (2009)

Animator / Technical Director

The Kid (2007)
Self-taught Senior 3D Rigger Freelancer with a solid international experience. Graduated in Physics at UFMG and Game Programming at Bart, Québec, Canada. Master Degree in Education at FUNIBER. Interested in developing new techniques able to integrate art and technology in order to create projects focused on human evolution.
Work History

  • Senior Rigger & Tools Developer

    Squeeze Studio

    December 2012 - October 2015

    Responsible for rigging and animation pipeline tools development.

  • Rigger - Remote Freelancer

    Vetor Zero

    June 2011 - November 2012

    Create several rigs for many companies for advertisements and feature films as a remote freelancer.

  • Character TD - R&D

    Vetor Zero

    April 2010 - May 2011

    Development of Maya tools and pipeline scripts using Python and MEL.
    Rigging support in advertisements.

  • Rigger

    Magma Cultural

    November 2009 - May 2010

    Schedule and prepare the character models for educational 3D animation series for television.

  • Character TD - Rigger

    Casablanca

    September 2008 - November 2009

    Write programs to develop the system's production company.
    Schedule and prepare the character models for 3D animation.
    Search techniques for optimization of processes in 3D.

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Education

  • College Bart

    2012 - 2013

  • Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

    2000 - 2003