Bret Bays

Work History

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  Character TD

  Walt Disney Animation Studios

  March 2012 - Present

  2014:
  Character TD Rigging- Zootopia
  
  2013:
  Technical Animator-FROZEN:
  *Utilized cloth and hair simulations ran on shots
  *Cleaning up character shapes and simulations
  *Completed 80 shots in the final film
  
  2012:
  Character TD Rigging-Get a Horse
  *Responsible for rigging body and faces for the following characters:
  -Clarabelle
  -JazKat
  -OldGoat
  -Piggle
  -Oswald
  -SlowJoe
  
  Technical Animator-Wreck-It Ralph Promotional
  *Cloth and hair simulations on promotional toolkits and posters for Wreck-it Ralph

  

  

• Character TD

  The Ottoman Project

  2009 - Present

  The Ottoman Project is a short film project by Mike Stamm in CINEMA 4D. Currently, I am working as character TD in my spare time.
  
  -Created Pre-visualization rigs for 5 bipeds, and 2 mechas
  -Animated several shots for pre-visualization
  -Created Final Rigs(body and face) for 4 main characters and 2 Mecha
  -Created reusable template to easily adjust each rig to each character
• 

  Talent Development Character TD

  Walt Disney Animation Studios

  March 2012 - September 2012

  Went through the Talent Development program enhancing my rigging skills, learning cloth and hair simulation setup, and technical animation.
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  Technical Director/Software Developer

  Circus Ink Entertainment Ltd.

  May 2011 - March 2012

  Was contracted to develop tradigiTOOLS for CINEMA 4D users. Plugin was developed in Python with the CINEMA 4D SDK. For those that don't know tradigiTOOLS is a tool for animators to easily breakdown poses by percentages, easily retime your animations, and much much more.

• Level 2 Technical Support Rep

  MAXON Computer

  June 2008 - March 2012

  Provided upper level support to users regarding complicated topics such as Character Rigging, XPresso, Python scripting and more. Recorded more than 50 video tutorials for online training website CINEVERSITY on the above mentioned topics.
  
  Created the Advanced Biped and Mocap templates provided with Release 13 of CINEMA 4D. These templates are a modular component rigging system that allows the user to build a rig piece by piece as they are needed. Once built, the user can very easily adjust it to fit each character no matter the size or shape.

• Freelance Character TD

  Big Machine Design

  November 2011 - January 2012

  Sole Men Music Video
  
  -Rigged both CG Rapper characters
  -Rigged shoe spewing pipe monster

• Freelance Character Animator and Character TD

  The Ebeling Group

  July 2011 - September 2011

  Macy's Believe Magic iPhone App
  
  -Rigged all four characters for the app
  -Animated all shots for three out of the four characters

• Contract Animator

  REACT! Games

  June 2011 - July 2011

  Contract animator
  Provided loopable animations for a Bat character and a Monkey character for Helam: A Stripling Warrior Quest