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Lead Character & Facial Artist / Fur&Hair TD |
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Education |
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Diploma in Computer Animation / Toronto Film School |
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Bachelor of Art Degree in Sculpture / Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts |
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Skills |
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Specializing in creating realistic & cartoony characters and facial blendShapes |
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Creating hair and fur for realistic and stylized human and animal |
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Rigging, texturing characters and props |
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Traditional drawings, sketch, oil painting and sculpture |
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Software |
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Maya, ZBrush, Mari, Substance Designer and Painter, Marvelous Designer, Photoshop, DDO, Headus UVLayout, Mudbox, |
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| Shave and Hair Cut, Premiere, Shake | ||
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Experience |
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Electronic Arts, Burnaby, Canada June 2017 - Present |
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| Character Artist II | ||
| Modeling / texturing photo real human heads | ||
| Building realistic facial blendShapes for human characters based on scan | ||
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The Coalition, Microsoft, Vancouver, Canada May 2013 - June 2017 |
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| Gears of War 4 (Xbox One, Win10) - AAA game / Sr. Character Artist | ||
| - Modeled and textured 5 out of 6 main hero character's heads | ||
| - Modeled facial blendShapes for the 5 main heros | ||
| - Built and textured hair and beard for some of main heroes | ||
| - Created and textured realistic style cloth in Marvelous Designer | ||
| Gears of War: Ultimate Edition (Xbox One, Win10) - AAA game / Sr. Character Artist | ||
| - Modeled and textured some of main hero character's heads | ||
| - Built facial blendShapes for some of main heros | ||
| - Built and textured the flying robot - Jackbot | ||
| Unannounced New IP ( Xbox One) | ||
| - modeled and textured photo real human main hero's heads and body based on scan | ||
| - Built photo real facial blendShapes for some of main heros based on scan | ||
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Rainmaker Entertainment 2006 - May 2013 |
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Escape From Planet Earth - animated feature film / Lead Character Modeler, Lead Facial Modeler |
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Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell - Conviction - cinematic game trailer / Lead Character Modeler, Lead Facial Modeler |
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Assassins Creed II - The Truth - cinematic game trailer / Lead Character Modeler, Lead Facial Modeler |
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Driver - cinematic game trailer / Lead Character Modeler, Lead Facial Modeler |
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| Cooper & Zinca - short film / Lead Character Modeler, Lead Facial Modeler | ||
| Stumped - short film / Lead Character Modeler, Lead Facial Modeler | ||
| Ting & Juma - short film / Lead Character Modeler, Lead Facial Modeler | ||
| Nutty Professor - direct-to-DVD / Lead Character Modeler, Facial Modeler | ||
| Barbie 12,13,14 - direct-to-DVD / Senior Character Modeler, Senior Hair&Fur Artist | ||
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Starz Animation Toronto (now known as Arc Productions) 2004 - 2006 |
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| Everyone's Hero - animated feature film / Character Modeler, Facial Modeler, Character Rigger | ||
| The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything - animated feature film / Character Modeler, Character Rigger | ||
| The Happy Elf - direct-to-DVD / Modeler, Facial Modeler | ||
| Chop Socky Chooks - TV series / Facial Modeler, Character Rigger | ||
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Interests |
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Sketching Human faces and Human Anatomy |
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Digital Sculpting models |
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| Oil paintings | ||
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