Todd Widup

Work History

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  Rigging Supervisor

  Sony Pictures Imageworks

  September 2021 - Present
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  Technical Animator

  Brud Inc

  November 2020 - October 2021

  Los Angeles, California, United States
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  Technical Animator

  Brud Inc

  August 2020 - October 2020

  Los Angeles, California, United States
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  Tech Artist

  Psyop

  July 2020 - August 2020

• Lead Artist

  The Kreature Kantina, Inc

  August 2017 - August 2020

  Small CG service company, where I am the lead artist at, over seeing small projects with teams of 1 to 8 people handling modeling, textures, shaders, rigging and animation for VFX in films, games, TV, and VR.
  
  
  Projects todate include : VR avatars for various companies, Snakes for "The Originals", animation on "War with Grandpa", and rig prototyping for films
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  Technical Art Director

  HTC Vive

  November 2018 - June 2020

  Las Vegas, Nevada Area

  June 2019 - Current : HTC Creative Services/ Vive Studios
  Oversee animation and rigging pipeline for Business Communication app. Create new models and rigs as needed, identify areas to improve in on IK solver, implement new animation systems with engineering team in Taipei
  
  Nov 2018-May2019 : HTC Creative Labs
  oversee animation and rigging pipeline for an internal project, come up commercial or custom software solutions for challenges, and integrate those solutions into the workflow
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  Sr technical artist

  Studio Wildcard

  December 2017 - November 2018

  Redmond, WA
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  Sr technical artist

  HBO

  January 2016 - December 2017

  United States

  Westworld Vr
  
  Create custom rigs for characters in VR project, body and face. Had to use motion capture for body and face cam footage to drive facial rig.
  
  SAfe planning, Faceware software systems

• Artist/ Owner

  Todd Widup Animation

  August 1996 - August 2017

  Create models and animation for a variety of subject matter and clients.
  Work ranges from corporate videos, to commercials, and film
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  Technical Art Director

  NVIDIA

  March 2015 - December 2015

  Redmond, WA

  Lead Tech Artist/Tech Art Director on an internal tech demo pushing what can be done on NVidia hardware
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  technical artist

  Microsoft

  February 2013 - February 2015

  redmond, washington

  I have worked in central media, pics and platform within the Xbox org writing tools developing new techniques and working to improve characters at various studios
  
  Projects
  Rare :Kinect sports rivals : facial animation system
  Scalebound : muscles
  HoloLens : various tools features
  prototype rigs for various projects
  pipeline tools for managing plugins/scripts for the various flavors of Maya around the office
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  Sr Technical artist

  Populus Group

  November 2012 - February 2013

  REMOTE to redmond, wa and twycross, uk

  working with game development to a 1st party developer on character technical challenges, including rigging, script and plugin development
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  Sr Creature TD

  Digital Domain

  May 2012 - September 2012

  Port St Lucie, FLorida

  rig creatures for animated feature. liason between animation and rigging for test work, to make sure rig is handling what they need, check out the character finalling steps for test footage
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  Sr Rigger/ClothTD

  Cinesite

  October 2011 - May 2012

  develop cloth rigs, write tools, rig clothing and characters