Rigging
I am a 3D Rigger with professional experience rigging props and characters for feature films and TV visual effects. I also have experience outside of work rigging for student video game prototypes and game jams in Unity. Below are some videos of my work from my professional, academic, and extracurricular activities.
Mermaid Body and Face Rig
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This video shows off a mermaid rig I created for an indie animation studio called Shattered Glass Film. It was a lot of fun to do, and Shattered Glass was great to work with! This rig is also the first professional facial rig I've done that has made it into production. (I've done other face rigs for characters that were never used, or assigned a face rig, then the project didn't happen, etc.)
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The body rig features variant switches for the clothes and hair to easily create different characters on the same rig. It also has a hierarchy of controls for the softer spots to tweak the rig just right. The facial rig features 16 phonemes, 6 set expressions, and controls to adjust them all. If you have any questions about this rig, feel free to contact me.
RIGGING REEL HIGHLIGHTS
Here are some of the highlights from my professional and academic careers as a 3D rigger for animated films, VFX, and video games.
PROFESSIONAL REELS
Unreal Engine 5 Control Rig
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In between projects, I have been teaching myself Unreal Engine 5.2. This reel shows off a little bit of the control rig I made inside UE5 from scratch. Now, I am working on building a small 3D platformer game in UE5. I will let you know once that is complete.
VFX Examples
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This reel shows off some of the work I've done for Encore FVX. We worked on many shows including Doom Patrol, Villains of Valley View, Winchester, Walker, Sulphur Springs, and much more.
Animation Feature Films and Shorts
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This reel shows off some of the work I've done for Reel FX in Dallas. I actually got to help produce 3 feature films at 3 animated shorts at Reel FX. It was a dream come true! The last feature film I worked on, Paramount's "Rumble", has not come out yet. So it is not included in this reel.
ACADEMIC REELS
MFA Project -- Auto-Rigging Script
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This reel is from my time in graduate school. It features my MFA project, which was an auto-rigging script in Python. I was just learning Python, so the script primarily created a proxy rig and turned that into the working rig. It was not modular, and had much room to improve, but I learned so much from it.