Paul Davies

Work History

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  Animation Supervisor

  Sony Computer Entertainment America

  March 2011 - Present

  Supervised animation for cinematics on Naughty Dog's "the Last of Us" for Playstation 3

  

• Artist

  Infusion Project

  2011 - 2013
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  Animator

  Double Negative

  2009 - March 2011

  Animator - Paul
  Animation Supervisor - Iron Man 2 Monaco sequence

  
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  Animator

  Sony Pictures Imageworks

  December 2005 - May 2009

  Animator - G-Force
  Animator - Watchmen
  Lead Animator - Speed Racer
  Lead Animator - I Am Legend
  Animator - Untold Legends: Dark Kingdom for PS3 (on loan to Sony Online Entertainment)
  Lead Animator - Heist E3 promo trailer (SPI and Cafe FX)
  Animator - Monster House

  

  

  

  

  

  

• Animator

  Sony Online Entertainment (on loan from Imageworks

  2006 - 2006

  See "Untold Legends: Dark Kingdom" comment above.
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  Animator

  Hydraulx

  December 2004 - December 2005

  Modeling, Rigging, Texturing, Animation and preliminary Look Dev - Norfolk Southern Tree Television Commercial
  Modeling, Layout, Animatic and Animation - Marines Diamond Television Commercial
  Animator - Venom feature film - demon snake animation
  Animator - Aeon Flux feature film - crowd animation and dirigble animation

  

  

  

  

  
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  Demo Artist

  Luxology

  2005 - 2005

  Live demonstrations of Luxology's flagship software package, modo
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  Animator

  Pixel Magic

  June 2004 - November 2004

  Rigged and Animated possessed woman crawling on wall for Exorcist: The Beginning.
  Rigged and Animated possessed woman dropping from cross for Exorcist: The Beginning.
  Modeled, Rigged, Animated and created cloth simulation for laughing Kirigi/Kabuki head in Elektra. (cut from final release for pacing)
  Animated "ghost sheets" in Elektra.
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  Technical Animator

  Rhythm & Hues Studios

  October 2003 - June 2004

  Animated Fur and Skin Jiggle Harmonics and collision on "Garfield"
  
  Made rig and mesh adjustments to fix animation/rig problems for the afro and gold chain on Scooby's Disco Suit disquise in "Scooby Doo 2".
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  Animator

  Zoic Studios

  2004 - 2004

  Animated Number 6's two cylon escorts as they walk down the hall in the opening of the Battlestar Galactica pilot.
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  Modeler

  The Embassy

  2004 - 2004

  Modeled car exterior body parts and environment set pieces for the first transforming Citroen ad.
  Helped artist get up to speed with modo.
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  Rigger/Animator

  ESC Entertainment

  June 2003 - September 2003

  Animated Sentinel Death cycles
  Animated Debris on Digger shots
  Animated Tower and Crane guns
  Created animations to test the final Sentinel rigs coiling capabilities
  Transferred animations from older Sentinel rigs to the final rig
  Wrote MEL Scripts to automate various animation transfer tasks
  Wrote MEL Scripts for Sentinel rig coil element selection
  Placed APU and Sentinel animations for Siege battle

• Animator

  Doug Chiang Studios

  2003 - 2003

  Animated Hunter Robots in two shots. One shot is featured in the third "Robota" trailer

• Co-Founder/Character TD/Animator

  Savage Frog!

  2000 - 2003

  Developed and maintained character pipeline
  Primary character modeler and rigger
  Co directed daily operations
  Animator
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  Modeler

  LucasArts

  1999 - 2000

  Modeled and textured roughly half the in-game character, creature and droid models in Jedi Power Battles for Playstation One.

• Demo Artist

  NewTek

  1997 - 2000

  Demonstrated Lightwave's modeling and animation features at trade shows in America and Korea
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  Modeler - Texture Artist

  LucasArts

  1998 - 1999

  Built and textured many of the in game characters, creatures and droids for the Playstation 1 version of Jedi Power Battles."
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  Lead Artist

  Brøderbund Software

  1996 - 1998

  Character modeling and texturing for in game characters in "Jedi Power Battles" for the first generation Playstation

• Lead Artist on Evil Genius

  Magnet Interactive Studios

  1995 - 1996

  Creature design, modeling, rigging and animation
  Supervision of creature design, modeling and animation
  3d and 2d Creature and FX animation and conversion for game sprites
  Cinematics storyboarding, modeling, texturing, animating, lighting and rendering

• 2d/3d artist/animator

  CapDisc

  1991 - 1993

  Interface design and creation, modeling, texture painting, rigging, lighting and animation