Charles Looker

Current

• Snr Character & Animation TD at Bioware EA

Past

• 'Caveman' Drink Milk campaign for Canadian Television. at Screen Scene
• 'Warhammer Online' MMORG at Climax
• 'Dinotopia' at Framestore - CFC

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Education

• The Arts Institute at Bournemouth

Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Games

Websites

• My Website
• My Company

Charles Looker’s Summary

I've worked on a variety of projects from and including VFX for television, commercials and currently, and most primarily game content.

I've been in the industry since 2001, where i started as an animator , but have matured into a fuller role of technical animator or TD, depending on the studio.

This has prodominantly been out of frustation of using the rigs and systems, and probably a secret inclining of wanting to understanding why things work the way they work. A desire I've had since i was a kid.

I work in primarily production, including export systems, skinning and rigging and also pipeline process for dependant departments working alongside mine, such as character art/modelling.

I also work in R&D, an area I've admired and always been involved with since and before working in the industry. I like to do fast testing and implementation of systems.

I mainly research areas of character articulation, with current aspiration of stronger facial animation systems, and overal stronger character subsystems: spine, shoulder deformation etc.

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Charles Looker’s Specialties:

Character TD, Working with 3ds max. Modelling,skinning, pipeline setup and animation for games, film and commercial work. Facial, quad and biped pipelines. Advanced R&D.

Charles Looker’s Experience

• Snr Character & Animation TD

  Bioware EA

  (Public Company; ERTS; Computer Games industry)

  October 2005 — Present (4 years 2 months)

  My title changes a lot - essentially I'm leading a team of technical animators on the ground, also developing R&D and pipeline support.
  
  Technical Animation, rigging, scripting, pipelines and R&D. Currently working on Dragon Age, Mass Effect 2 and undisclosed projects.

• 'Caveman' Drink Milk campaign for Canadian Television.

  Screen Scene

  (Animation industry)

  May 2005 — June 2005 (2 months)

  Character Animation, and Pipeline work.

• 'Warhammer Online' MMORG

  Climax

  (Animation industry)

  July 2002 — March 2005 (2 years 9 months)

  Character Animation, rigging and Pipeline work.

• 'Dinotopia'

  Framestore - CFC

  (Animation industry)

  August 2001 — January 2002 (6 months)

  Character Animation.

Charles Looker’s Education

• The Arts Institute at Bournemouth

  Ba(hons) , Film & Animation , 1998 — 2001

Additional Information

Charles Looker’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Company

Charles Looker’s Interests:

Emerging Technology, anthopology