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Undergraduate Virginia Tech

EDUCATION

- Designed and implemented key features: wildlife animation system, Big Hit Moments, Heartbeat Moments, ball pickups/drops, prop attachment- Primary programmer for our MotionBuilder suite of rigging and animation tools- Implemented animation, props, and camera work for in-game cinematics and trailers- Worked on crowd, mini-games, cameras, FX, and art-related tasks- Rigged and implemented all wildlife art in engine, as well as programming behaviour,placement, footplanting, locomotion, interactions, and spawning

Associate Technical Artist

- Authored and maintained C# tools and data-types in the Madden pipeline- Scripts: Hair-sim importing, facial joint offsetting tool, reweighting, camera processing- Rigged, scripted, and implemented cinematic props and cameras- Authored cloth and hair simulation for high detail cinematic characters- Implemented new characters and new rigs into the animation system and game- Managed skinning and retargeting challenges with changing character and crowd rigs- Prototyped with proceduralized stadium modeling in Houdini

Associate Technical Artist

SOFTWARE PROFICIENCY TECHNICAL SKILLS

2013-Present

- Automated proccess for generating cameras and cut-scene logic, doubiling the amount of cinematics in game- Updated and fixed issues around rigs for mascots, cheerleaders, referees, and other NPC types.- Scripted and supported the art and animation pipelines for characters and props- Wrote a black box system to automate our prop generation process

Associate Technical Artist

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Graduate Florida Interactive Enterainment Academy (FIEA)

B.F.A Creative Technology, Minor: Art History

M.S. Interactive Entertainment, Track: Tech Art

2012-2013

Chris Russell //Tech Artist

2012

Team: Characters

Team: Core Graphics

Team: Core Graphics

CS

LanguagesPythonC#LuaMel

ScriptingArt & animation toolsPipelinesCinematicsGameplay scenariosGame modes

Rigging

Game Engine

Bi/Quadroped rigsTransferable facial rigsAuto-Rig toolsMo-Cap friendly rigsSimulation

FX, Visual environmentsAsset/data batchingPhysics bodiesLocomotionBasic AIShadersNode-based programming

CompositingMental RayModo RenderPost-ProcessingPost-FXEditingRender Compositing

3D ProgramsMayaModoMotion-BuilderHoudiniZBrushReal-FlowFX ComposerPoser

Adobe CS

Revision Control

Game Engines

Perforce

FrostbiteEA IgniteUDK (UE3) UnityCS Flash Develop

Task ManagementHansoftDev TrackerJIRAConfluence

PhotoshopAfter EffectsIllustratorIn-DesignBridgeMedia Encoder

FilmFinal Cut ProMotion