David Rhodes

Current

• Character Technical Director at LucasArts

Past

• Technical Animator - Contract at Rhythm and Hues Studios
• Technical Animator at Raven Software

Education

• Full Sail Real World Education
• Clackamas Community College
• Oregon State University

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Recommended

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Connections

91 connections

Industry

Animation

Websites

• My Website

David Rhodes’s Summary

Character Technical Director with extensive knowledge of character rigging and dynamic simulations. I enjoy building pipelines and developing tools/workflow solutions. MEL is my second language. I enjoy bringing characters to life via rigging, but some day I would like to be an Art Director or Project Lead in the games industry.

David Rhodes’s Specialties:

Rigging, scripting, dynamic simulations, havok setup, pipeline creation/management, tool development and R&D.

David Rhodes’s Experience

• Character Technical Director

  LucasArts

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Games industry)

  November 2007 — Present (1 year 2 months)

  Rigging, binding, pipeline management, tool development, workflow evaluation/implementation, R&D.

• Technical Animator - Contract

  Rhythm and Hues Studios

  (Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Animation industry)

  June 2007 — November 2007 (6 months)

  Cloth, hair and fur dynamic simulation, deformation cleanup, skin harmonics, etc.

• Technical Animator

  Raven Software

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

  February 2007 — June 2007 (5 months)

  Designing and maintaining motion capture capable rigs that can be edited on the fly for realistic animations.

David Rhodes’s Education

• Full Sail Real World Education

  Associate of Science, Computer Animation, 2005 — 2006

  Valedictorian and Perfect Attendance Award.

• Clackamas Community College

  Associate of Art, General Education, 2004 — 2005

  Honor Roll.

• Oregon State University

  Computer Science 2003 — 2004

  Studied C, C++, and Java programming languages.

Additional Information

David Rhodes’s Websites:

• My Website

David Rhodes’s Groups:

•    Maya Rigging

David Rhodes’s Honors:

Full Sail Real World Education:

Valedictorian
Perfect Attendance

David Rhodes’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• career opportunities
• consulting offers
• new ventures
• job inquiries
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
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