vadim kiyaev

vadim kiyaev

Senior Character TD / 15 yrs

Los Angeles, CA

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Work History
  • Principal Character Technical Artist

    Striking Distance Studios

    February 2022 - Present
  • Character TD

    Freelance

    April 2009 - Present
    US
  • Senior Technical Artist

    Amazon

    October 2018 - February 2022
    San Diego - Irvine, CA

    Developing rigging, animation and character art tools for short term and long term. Improving and optimizing workflows. Day to day troubleshooting game development problems with in animation, character art and rigging. Working closely with game designers, art directors, character artists, animation team in creating character rigs, and other deformable assests for the projects.

  • Senior Character TD

    Sony Pictures Imageworks

    July 2012 - October 2018
    Culver City, CA
  • Instructor

    Gnomon School of Visual Effects

    2017 - 2017
    Hollywood, CA

    Intro to Scripting in Maya - MEL,Python

  • Character TD

    Freelance / Self Employed

    2009 - 2012
    New York, NY

    Character rigging - body and faces - weighted and shapes modeling.
    Scripting of Tools(MEL,Python)
    Some Modeling and Animation

    For 3D animated and live action VFX commercials, short films, previz animation, game cinematic/cut scenes and video games.

    Remotely and onsite for:

    Buck
    Panda Panther
    Psyop
    My Active Driveway
    Laika/House
    Hornet Inc.
    Blind
    Gravity
    Nathan Love
    Curious Pictures
    321 Launch

Education
  • BFA in Digital Arts - Animation

    Pratt Institute

    ? - ?
  • Certificate in Character Animation

    Gobelins

    ? - ?