Ricardo Lua

Ricardo Lua

Senior Animator / 9 yrs

Greater Los Angeles Area

Hire Me

Lead Animator

Abominable and the Invisible City (2022)

The King's Daughter (2022)

Animation Lead

Doug Unplugs (2020)

Animation Lead

Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous (2020)

The Last of Us II (2020)

Fast & Furious: Spy Racers (2019)

Dragons Rescue Riders (2019)

Baymax Dreams (2018)

The Pig on the Hill (2018)

Wolves in the Walls (2018)

Character Animator

Trouble

Animator

Sonder

Google AR

Capital One AR

Borderlands 2

Work History

  • Senior Finals Animator

    Halon Entertainment

    December 2023 - Present

    Creating Fortnite animation

  • Character Animator

    ProRigs

    October 2017 - Present

    Character animation, character pose libraries, MG Pickers, and rig wrecking

  • Character Animator

    Spire Animation Studios, Inc.

    April 2022 - July 2023

  • Animation Artist

    DreamWorks Animation

    July 2019 - March 2022

  • Character Animator

    Fable Studio

    May 2020 - October 2020

    Created keyframe animation, expression libraries, and cycles for Virtual Beings A.I. projects at Sundance and SXSW. Unreal Engine project.

  • Cinematic Animator

    Naughty Dog

    March 2019 - July 2019
    Santa Monica, CA

    Interactive Cinematic Animator on Last of Us II

  • Animator

    Fable Studio

    September 2018 - March 2019
    San Francisco, CA

  • Character Animator

    Unity Technologies

    March 2018 - August 2018
    San Francisco, CA

  • Character Animator and Cloth Simulation Artist

    SOBA Productions

    June 2016 - April 2018
    San Francisco Bay Area

    Character animator and cloth sim artist on the short film Sonder (2018)

  • Character Animator

    SOBA production

    May 2016 - April 2018
    San Francisco, CA

  • Character Animator

    Whamix

    February 2018 - March 2018
    San Francisco Bay Area

  • T.A.

    The Animation Collaborative

    May 2016 - March 2018
    Emeryville, CA

  • Animator

    Fable Studio

    November 2017 - January 2018
    San Francisco, CA
View All Positions
Education

  • The Animation Collaborative

    February 2013 - April 2017

  • Animation and Visual Effects - 3D Animation

    Academy of Art University

    January 2012 - May 2016