Hello!
I build tools that make life with computers a lot easier.
About me
Starting with a strong technical foundation by earning a Bachelor of Arts in Cognitive Science at the Univeristy of California at Berkeley and further developing 3D Animation fundamentals with a Master of Arts at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, I was ready to join the software development industry by joining Telltale Games as a Technical Artist.
Through my work at Telltale, I have been able to dig deep into the 3D character-rigging pipeline and develop tools to automate the process using MEL scripting. Additionally, I was able to take feedback from animators and incorporate it to improve existing tools. After building and skinning over 80 rigs, I moved on to the cinematics department to develop and improve the game-authoring pipeline, which involves staging characters, setting up cameras, authoring interactive cameras, wiring triggers and authoring cutscenes. Telltale games rely heavily on how the dramatic scenes are paced and acted so it is a fairly robust aspect of making the games
After a couple of years managing a team, recruiting, training and setting schedules as head of the Cinematics Department, I relocated to Southern California and have continued to work for Telltale remotely. I am concurrently studying the latest coding techniques to further develop my technical knowledge and learn how to build better and more robust tools and applications.
Expertise
Game Authoring
Once the assets are in, I put the game together. This includes dynamically staging the characters, setting up immersive interactive cameras, putting together compelling cutscenes and authoring the animation to maximize the impact of a character's performance.
Team and Project Management
With a growing company comes a growing Cinematics department. As the department lead, I have been responsible for hiring, training, motivating, scheduling and reviewing every member of the Cinematics department.
Python Scripting
Leveraging the power of Python, and Maya's Embedded Language (MEL), I can automate repetitive tasks in the 3-D art pipeline and create widgets and tools to aid artists in creating 3D assets.
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76
Episodes
20
Seasons
90+
Game of the Year
Awards
12
Years of Experience
My work
I have worked on dozens of projects so I have picked only the latest for you.
As Javier, a young man determined to find the family taken from him, you meet a young girl who has experienced her own unimaginable loss. Her name is Clementine, and your fates are bound together in a story where every choice you make could be your last.
In this project, I authored immersive interactive cameras, animated dramatic camera rigs for in-game cutscenes, set up action-based interactions and provided dramatic animation authoring for the characters' performance. Currently working on the latest episode.
You are Jesse, and you and your friends are thrown into an awe-inspiring adventure to save the world. While visiting EnderCon, your gang stumbles on something dreadful. Terror is unleashed, and your only hope is to track down the “Order of the Stone”, a fabled group of adventurers who slew the legendary Ender Dragon. But where are they? In a race against time, you will travel across the over-world, through the Nether, to The End, and beyond.
In this project, I authored immersive interactive cameras, developed new time-saving methods for the unique minecraft aesthetic, animated dramatic camera rigs for in-game cutscenes, set up action-based interactions and provided dramatic animation authoring for the characters' performance.
Starring the iconic, blade-wielding character made famous by Robert Kirkman’s best-selling comic books. The story explores the period in the comic book timeline where Michonne leaves Rick, their group, and her katana behind, in order to deal with emotional demons from her past. Players will discover what took Michonne away from her trusted allies, and what brought her back to them.
In this project, I animated dramatic camera rigs for in-game cutscenes and provided dramatic animation authoring for the characters' performance.
Like all good tales, there’s more than one side to a story. Especially one about a Vault key, the Hyperion Corporation, bandits, loot, gangsters, Vault Hunters, secret Atlas tech, explosions, getaways, extortion, betrayal, and mayhem.
In this project, I authored immersive interactive cameras, developed new time-saving methods for moments unique to Borderlands, animated dramatic camera rigs for in-game cutscenes, set up action-based interactions and provided dramatic animation authoring for the characters' performance.
Based on HBO’s award-winning television drama, Game of Thrones – A Telltale Games Series tells the story of House Forrester, a noble house from the north of Westeros. Caught up in the events of The War of the Five Kings, they are placed in a precarious position where members of the household must do everything they can to prevent the house from meeting its doom.
In this project, I authored immersive interactive cameras, animated dramatic camera rigs for in-game cutscenes, set up action-based interactions and provided dramatic animation authoring for the characters' performance.
The Wolf Among Us is a five episode series based on Fables (DC Comics/Vertigo), an award-winning comic book series by Bill Willingham. It is a violent, hard-boiled thriller where the characters and creatures of myth, lore and legend are real and exist in our world.
In this project, I authored immersive interactive cameras, developed new time-saving methods for moments unique to the Fables universe, animated dramatic camera rigs for in-game cutscenes, set up action-based interactions and provided dramatic animation authoring for the characters' performance.
Season Two continues the Season One story. You are Clementine, a young survivor in a world gone to hell. The dead have risen to feast on the living, and the living cannot be trusted.
In this project, I authored immersive interactive cameras, developed new time-saving methods for moments unique to the Walking Dead universe, animated dramatic camera rigs for in-game cutscenes, set up action-based interactions and provided dramatic animation authoring for the characters' performance.
The Walking Dead is an episodic video game series based on Robert Kirkman’s award-winning comic books. Season One of The Walking Dead won over 90 Game of the Year Awards.
In this project, I authored immersive interactive cameras, developed new time-saving methods for moments unique to the Walking Dead universe, animated dramatic camera rigs for in-game cutscenes, set up action-based interactions and provided dramatic animation authoring for the characters' performance.