Leander Schock

Current

• Senior Animator at Ubisoft Montreal

Past

• Lead Artist & Sr. Animator at Rockstar Vienna
• Instructor - New Media (part time) at BFI Berufs Förderungs Institut , Vienna (Job Training Center)
• Freelance 3d Artist, Vienna at Inlume Animation

• Art Director of "Vienna Art" Multimedia Department at Jobpilot
• Design and Marketing at Schock Power Conversion, California
• Instructor at UCLA (University of California Los Angeles)
• Electronic Engineer at Schock Power Conversion, Vienna, Austria

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Education

• Höhere Graphische Bundeslehr- u Versuchsanstalt
• Technologisches Gewerbemuseum

Recommended

5 people have recommended Leander

Connections

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Industry

Animation

Websites

• My Website
• profile on xing

Leander Schock’s Summary

Lead Artist and Sr. Animator
Excellent communication skills and strong team leadership skills.
Strong technical and artistic background.

16 years of work experience in Computer Graphics:
Video Games: 7 years
Multimedia and Video Animations: 4.5 years
CAD Design & Electronics Engineering: 4.5years

Leander Schock’s Specialties:

Keyframe- Character Animation (biped, quadrupeds)
Character Rigging
Motion Capture animation

Motionbuilder, Maya, 3ds Max

After Effects, Photoshop, Renderware, Illustrator, QuarkXpress, AutoCAD, Alienbrain, Perforce, ...

Leander Schock’s Experience

• Senior Animator

  Ubisoft Montreal

  (Public Company; FR0000054470; Computer Games industry)

  September 2006 — Present (2 years 11 months)

  Prince Of Persia (2008):
  Story Animator - animating interactive dialogs between the Prince and Elika (mainly mocap based)
  
  Far Cry 2:
  Keyframe and Mocap for 3rd person biped animations (shoot cycles, locomotion, reactions, communication); facial mood cycles
  
  Lost - Via Domus:
  Animating and Rigging Quadruped Animals
  Facial Animations

• Lead Artist & Sr. Animator

  Rockstar Vienna

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

  April 2002 — June 2006 (4 years 3 months)

  Lead Artist and Senior Animator
  creating graphical content and animating characters for console video games using MAYA, 3dsMAX and other applications.
  
  2004 - spring 2006: MH2 for XBOX and PS2 as Lead Artist leading a team of 15 artists and animators
  2003 - 2004: GTA Vice City for XBOX (GTA Double Pack) as Lead Artist
  2003 - 2004: GTA3 for XBOX (GTA Double Pack) as Digital Artist
  2002 - 2003: MaxPayne2 for XBOX and PS2 as Digital Artist
  2002: Non-Released PC title as Sr. Animator

• Instructor - New Media (part time)

  BFI Berufs Förderungs Institut , Vienna (Job Training Center)

  (Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

  October 2000 — March 2003 (2 years 6 months)

  Instructor of several Computer Graphics courses like 3D Animation, Photoshop, Quark-Xpress, HTML

• Freelance 3d Artist, Vienna

  Inlume Animation

  (Privately Held; Myself Only; Broadcast Media industry)

  February 2001 — April 2002 (1 year 3 months)

  3D animated cinema commercial for a major Austrian coffee brand. VideoFX and animations for an educational film and trade show presentations. Graphic Print Layout.

• Art Director of "Vienna Art" Multimedia Department

  Jobpilot

  (Public Company; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  September 1998 — February 2001 (2 years 6 months)

  Managing small MultiMedia Department to create advertising (print, multimedia, animation, banners) for inhouse and other jobpilot branches

• Design and Marketing

  Schock Power Conversion, California

  (Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

  1994 — 1998 (4 years)

  Setting up a US daughter company of a small European high tech company. Electronic Layout (2D) and Mechanical Design (3D) of power supplies and battery chargers. Setting up marketing - print and online production and design.

• Instructor

  UCLA (University of California Los Angeles)

  (Educational Institution; Research industry)

  1996 — 1997 (1 year)

  Instructor for AutoCAD
  "Crash"-courses from basic 2D to advanced 3D Modeling with AutoCad. Classes for engineers and architects with 25 to 40 students per class.

• Electronic Engineer

  Schock Power Conversion, Vienna, Austria

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

  1993 — 1994 (1 year)

  Design and Development of high tech power conversion products,
  CAD production drawings and schematics, Building and testing of prototypes.

Leander Schock’s Education

• Höhere Graphische Bundeslehr- u Versuchsanstalt

  Diplom MultiMedia Producer , Multimedia, (3d Animation, Photography, Graphics Layout, Webdesign) , 1998 — 2000

  personal specialization on 3D character animation

• Technologisches Gewerbemuseum

  Ing (Professional Engineer) , Electronics and Telecommunications , 1987 — 1992

Additional Information

Leander Schock’s Websites:

• My Website
• profile on xing

Leander Schock’s Interests:

hiking, bicycling, photography, movies, cooking

Leander Schock’s Groups:

•    CGCHAR - 3D CG Character Animation
•    Game Developers
•    MTLfx
•    Canadian CG/VFX Artists

Leander Schock’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• career opportunities
• consulting offers
• new ventures
• business deals
• reference requests
• getting back in touch