
Motion Capture Specialist at 2K Games
San Francisco Bay Area

Motion Capture Specialist at 2K Games
San Francisco Bay Area
PLATFORMS:
PC - Any Windows
MAC - Any OS to OSX
IN BETWEEN - basic Unix/Linux
SOFTWARE:
Maya, MotionBuilder, Vicon IQ and Blade, HOM Diva, MudBox, ZBrush, AfterEffects, Photoshop, MatchMover, Motor.
LANGUAGES:
Mel, HSL, CPP, C#, Basic, Python, Perl, PHP, CGI, Java, XML.
SKILLS
PRIMARY:
Character Rigging and Setups, programming in many scripting and object oriented languages.
SECONDARY:
Modeling, texture and lighting, compositing, dynamics.
Quick at learning new software as well as picking up any new programming languages, great at solving and troubleshooting problems, and lots of energy to motivate any team.
(Public Company; TTWO; Computer Games industry)
March 2008 — Present (1 year 9 months)
From working with talent, tracking, cleaning, to solving and character setup. In downtime always keep pushing the production pipeline (Writing new apps, scripts, tools, etc.) Worked on released titles:
- "NHL 2K10"
- "NBA 2K10"
- "The Bigs2"
- "MLB: Front Office Manager"
- "MLB 2K9"
- "NHL 2K9"
- "NBA 2K9" (G4’s X-Play “Best Animation of 2008” Award Winner)
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Publishing industry)
November 2007 — January 2008 (3 months)
Primarily worked with After Effects, Photoshop, Final Cut, and Nitrous.
- History of Applied Materials (Documentary)
- Multiple projects for Microsoft, Oracle, Cisco
(Keying, Rotoscoping, Motion Graphics)
(Education Management industry)
July 2007 — August 2007 (2 months)
Helping students with basic work in Adobe Photoshop and After Effects, creating matte paintings, and 2D transformation/morphing from object to object.
(Education Management industry)
June 2007 — July 2007 (2 months)
Helping students to setup their characters. Starting from anatomy and joint placement, weight painting, complex deformations, and ending with full rig setup, ik/fk, blend shapes, and additional tools for the rigs.
(Internet industry)
June 2005 — April 2007 (1 year 11 months)
Developing high end web sites and applications for small businesses using PHP, MySQL, SQL, ASP, JavaScripts, CSS, HTML, CGI, Flash, Action Scripting, etc.
B.A.S. , Animation and Visual Effects , 2005 — 2007
Character TD, Visual Arts