Objective

Creating highly believable CG characters for film and television

Professional Experience

Character Technical Director

3DSite Topanga, CA

11/05-1/07

Work with animators to provide complex animation rigs using Houdini. Responsible for designing real-time solutions to enable high level animation blending and audience interaction for Next Generation Theme Park Attraction

Rigger/Animator

yu+Co Hollywood, CA

10/05-11/05

Set-up and Animated King Kong for European commercial.

Modeler/ Layout/ Cloth

Klasky\Csupo, Ka Chew Hollywood, CA

05/05-09/05

Modeled, textured, rigged, and set-up cloth for Campbells Soup and Mucinex commercials.

Animator

Pacific Title "Fantastic Four" Hollywood, CA

05/05-06/05

Lead and instructed small team of junior artists to produce Digital Costume fixes for the Thing

Animator

EdenFX "Star Trek: Enterprise" Hollywood, CA

03/05-05/05

Character animator for the “Gorn” creature in Episode 95

Feature Film CG Artist

VFXPC "A Sound of Thunder" Culver City , CA

09/03-11/04

Modeled 7 main creatures in Maya and Z Brush

Responsible for all Rigging and Animation on two of the creatures

Clean-up, Rigging and Animation for CG Extras

Troubleshooting Cross-platform: Maya, 3DS Max, Lightwave, and Kaydara

Software

3D Packages

3+ years production Maya: Modeling, Animation, Rigging, Syflex, Muscles, Facial Set-up, UV Texturing, MEL Script, Mental Ray and Particles

1+ year production Houdini: Real-Time Character Set up, Hscript, Dynamics

2D Packages

5+ years Photoshop, After Effects,

Education

BFA, Film and Television

1998–2002New York University Tisch School of the Arts New York, NY

Awards

Richard Protovin Award

2002 New York University New York, NY

Award from Excellence in Animation

Eagle Scout

1998 BSA Troop 285 Albuquerque, NM

Hobbies

Aikido, Sculpting and Drawing