Chris Adams

Current

Animator at id Software

Past

Senior Animator at Barking Lizards Technologies
Game Development Faculty at SMU Guildhall
Technical Animator at Method Solutions

Technical Animator at TKO-Software
Senior Animator at Paradigm Entertainment, Inc.
Animator at Retro Studios

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Education

Ringling School of Art and Design

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Industry

Computer Games

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Chris Adams’s Summary

- Strong professional working knowledge of Maya: I have been using this package from the first Alpha Release.

- My experience as an animator and artist enhances my ability to code intuitive tools for the end user. I am not just a programmer making tools I myself wouldn't be able use.

- Proven track record with almost 8 years experience, developed animation pipelines from the ground up for two companies.

- Have had the opportunity to develop games for very diverse target platforms, anything from PC and Consoles to Wireless phones.

Please visit my website at http://www.csa3d.com for more information.

Chris Adams’s Specialties:

MEL Scripting, Rigging, Animation, Optimizing data to run realtime on anything from PC's to wireless phones

Chris Adams’s Experience

Animator

id Software

(Privately Held; Computer Games industry)

March 2009 — Present (5 months)
Senior Animator

Barking Lizards Technologies

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Games industry)

July 2007 — November 2008 (1 year 5 months)

Animation Lead over 4 junior animators, Art lead on 2 internal demos, MEL Scripting of animation setup tools and game engine exportation pipelines, keyframe animation, mocap cleanup, designing and scheduling of animation trees and implementations.
Game Development Faculty

SMU Guildhall

(Higher Education industry)

July 2006 — July 2007 (1 year 1 month)
Technical Animator

Method Solutions

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Games industry)

September 2005 — September 2006 (1 year 1 month)

Method solutions was what TKO Software Dallas regrouped to form after shutting down. See description for TKO Software below.
Technical Animator

TKO-Software

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Games industry)

November 2003 — July 2005 (1 year 9 months)

- Transitioned Art Team from a Max house to a Maya house

- Development of intuitive art production tools keeping the artist in mind

- Simplified asset pipelines to expidite implementation under extremely short deadlines

- Created flexible animation systems which allow asset sharing between very diverse target platforms

- Training inexperienced artists on core concepts of game animation and implementing their creative assets using various engines

- Leading a small team of animators

- New employee interviewing and recruiting.
Senior Animator

Paradigm Entertainment, Inc.

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; ATAR; Computer Games industry)

September 2001 — November 2003 (2 years 3 months)

- Development of an automated animation pipeline, creation of an asset tracking/scheduling database

- Employee lectures on tools and techniques of animation

- Testing and support of core animation technologies

- Batch scripting large quantities of animation assets

- Animator motion critiques

- Interviewing of new hires

- In-game character keyframing

- Mocap cleaning/shooting

- UV color and manipulation tools for level artists.
Animator

Retro Studios

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Games industry)

June 2000 — July 2001 (1 year 2 months)

Mocap Animation - Vicon Capture System Setup, Actor Markering, Captured Data Cleanup and Filmbox Asset Delivery

Animation - Keyframing, Mocap, Anim Looping, Maya Trax Blending of Mocap to Keyframe moves, and Facial R&D

Level Optimization - Rebuilding Un-optimized Geometry, UV Sharing and Texture Optimization

MEL Tool Design - Created various animation, texturing and workflow tools to simplify daily tasks

Chris Adams’s Education

Ringling School of Art and Design

BFA , Computer Animation , 1996 — 2000

Photography Minor, Graduated with honors

Activities and Societies:

F.E.W.S. -- Figure-drawing Enhancment With Students (Co-Organizer)