Ed Caspersen

Current

• Founding partner at Fracture-fx.com
• Mentor at TD-College

Past

• Contributing Author at Professional MEL Solutions for Production
• Corporal at United States Marine Corps

Education

• ITT Tech-Grand Rapids
• ITT Tech-Grand Rapids

Recommended

2 people have recommended Ed

Connections

21 connections

Industry

Animation

Websites

• My Website

Ed Caspersen’s Summary

An experienced author, mentor, and software plug-in developer with a love for film, animation and visual effects. I aim to work full time as a TD within the film industry while continuing to develop tools and software to increase productivity of artists and animators.

Ed Caspersen’s Specialties:

Modeling, animation, and FX production using Maya, Blender, 3ds Max. As well as a background in MEL, and Python.

Ed Caspersen’s Experience

• Founding partner

  Fracture-fx.com

  (Partnership; Computer Software industry)

  March 2009 — Present (9 months)

  Fracture is a procedural, event-driven destruction plugin for Maya. Currently Fracture is a pre-alpha build but is being updated and maintained on a very tense production schedule

• Mentor

  TD-College

  (E-Learning industry)

  August 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)

  - Mentor for MEL and Python
  - Course author of the Maya FX course

• Contributing Author

  Professional MEL Solutions for Production

  (Animation industry)

  May 2008 — August 2008 (4 months)

  Co-author of Kevin Mannens. Authored all of chapter 6 and collaborated with Kevin on chapter 7.

• Corporal

  United States Marine Corps

  (Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; USMC; Military industry)

  March 1996 — March 2000 (4 years 1 month)

  Member of the Chemical Biological Incident Response Force.

Ed Caspersen’s Education

• ITT Tech-Grand Rapids

  Associates , Computer Network Systems , 2008 — 2009

• ITT Tech-Grand Rapids

  Associates , Information Technology / Multimedia , 2006 — 2008

  Activities and Societies:

  Mentor for Multimedia studies and mathematics.

Additional Information

Ed Caspersen’s Websites:

• My Website

Ed Caspersen’s Groups:

•    Visual Effects, Film and Games Professionals (www.vfx-recruit.com)
•    Animation, Media & Entertainment
•    Blender Artists
•    TDs | VFX
•    ITT NTHS
•    RealFlow

Ed Caspersen’s Honors:

Honor Graduate - ITT Technical Institute, September 2008
Highest Honors - ITT Technical Institute, September 2008
National Technical Honor Society - ITT Technical Institute, September 2008

Ed Caspersen’s Contact Settings

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• career opportunities
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• new ventures
• expertise requests
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