Thomas Bittner

Thomas Bittner

Rigger/Developer with 20 years experience and tons of tools

Senior Character TD / Senior Tool Developer

Vienna, Austria

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Rigging Supervisor

The Greatest Gift (2024)

Justice League (2017)

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)

Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016)

Character Rigger

Beauty and the Beast (2016)

Penguins of Madagascar (2014)

Mr. Peabody & Sherman (2014)

Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (2012)

Visual Effects

Game of Thrones (2011)

Rigger

Clash of the Titans (2010)

Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010)

The Wolfman (2010)

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)

Dance Flick (2009)

Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009)

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009)

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008)

Character Setup Artist

Lissi und der wilde Kaiser (2007)
Demo Reel
Demo Reel from 2019
Audio Driven Lip Sync
Cartoon Face Rig
I've been working for the last 20 years as a Rigger. Most of those years I've worked for famous feature films.
Then the last 5 years I've been focusing on Freelancing and building my own rigging tools, which became Kangaroo-Builder (www.kangaroo-builder.com) and is now available for everyone to use and open source for the most part.

Lately I've been focusing more and more on Unreal Engine Control Rigs, building Control Rigs manually but also scripting them.

I've also created speech machine (www.speech-machine.com), which is a tool that can calculate the lip movements from an audio file.
Work History

  • Freelancer for Rigging and Tool Development

    Self-employed

    January 2019 - Present
    Vancouver, Canada Area

    Specialized in Character Rigs and Python Rigging Tools

  • Character Rigger

    ScanlineVFX

    April 2016 - December 2018

    Character Rigging and Tool Development

  • Character Rigger

    Digital Domain

    September 2015 - April 2016
    Vancouver

    Character Rigging and Tool Development

  • Character Rigger

    DreamWorks Animation

    October 2009 - July 2015

    Character Rigging and Tool Development

  • Character Rigger

    MPC

    July 2007 - July 2009

  • Rigger

    Passion Pictures

    September 2006 - June 2007

    - character-rigs and effects
    - plugins and scripts

  • Rigging TD

    CA Scanline

    March 2006 - September 2006
    Munich Area, Germany
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Education

  • The German Film School for digital production

    March 2000 - March 2004