Experience

• Animation Lead and Motion Capture Director at Mighty Eyes

  Auckland, NZ

  September 2022 - December 2024

  I am currently the Animation and Motion Capture lead at Mighty Eyes, working on Wanderer: The Fragments of Fate.
  
  Within this role I oversee and direct our mocap shoots and facial capture, as well as work closely with the development team on more technical animation solutions within Unreal Engine 5. I lead a team of 2 other junior animators to create highly polished animations.

• 3D Generalist at SkillsVR

  Auckland, NZ

  August 2021 - September 2022

  I was a 3D Generalist with SkillsVR, who create VR training and gamified learning outcomes for businesses.
  
  As a 3D Generalist I worked across all areas of the asset and character creation pipelines, specifically environment and asset creation, as well as more technical integration support and animation support within Unity and Blender.

• 3D Animator and Artist at Wanderer

  Auckland, NZ

  September 2019 - July 2021

  I was the lead 3D animator and mocap director for Wanderer, a VR story driven time travel adventure game.
  
  Primarily I focused on the character animation pipeline, using Rokoko Smartsuits for body capture and Unreal Livelink with Apple ARKit for facial capture. I worked with motion capture animation, as well as keyframe animation for non-human and creature animation using Motionbuilder and Maya. I worked closely with developers on animation integration in UE4 with our character locomotion system.
  
  I also worked within the art team in a generalist capacity, such as rigging touchups and blendshape creation, as well as UV remapping and collision creation.

• 3D Art Generalist at Conical Studios

  Auckland, New Zealand

  October 2016 - May 2019

  I have worked with a wide variety of softwares and skills for B2B apps and games in AR and VR. At Conical I worked on all aspects of the 3D pipeline, from modeling and rigging through to animating - pose to pose animation as well as motion capture and facial capture. I am proficient working with front end Unity development, I have also done minor work as a technical artist in Unity.

  To date I have worked on 10 mobile apps, both AR and VR, as well as 3 VR experiences developed in both Unity and Unreal.

• Lead 3D and Graphic Designer at Perfit

  Auckland, New Zealand

  March 2016 - September 2016

  I was the lead 3D and graphic designer for the startup Perfit, a small team looking at revolutionizing the way we buy clothes online. I took real world body measurements to create base 3D avatars, body morphers to customise the avatars, and worked on rigging, texturing, and skinning. I also utilized Adobe's Creative Suite to create promotional videos and images for Perfit.

• Generalist Design Intern at BigLittleBang

  Auckland, New Zealand

  January 2014 - March 2014

  I worked with BigLittleBang's artists on their children's MMORPG Star86 to create prop and environment assets.