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I have been working in games for 15+ years creating and optimizing rigs and animations. I love crafting smooth, expressive characters and robust pipelines that let teams iterate quickly. I’m excited to apply my expertise to help a fun, collaborative team build amazing games while continuing to hone my animation skills. I’m eager to contribute my technical and creative strengths to a dynamic studio, continue growing as an artist, and mentor others along the way.…I have been working in games for 15+ years creating and optimizing rigs and animations. I love crafting smooth, expressive characters and robust pipelines that let teams iterate quickly. I’m excited to apply my expertise to help a fun, collaborative team build amazing games while continuing to hone my animation skills. I’m eager to contribute my technical and creative strengths to a dynamic studio, continue growing as an artist, and mentor others along the way.

Brandon Plagemann

Animator, 3D Animator, Character Rigger, +1

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I have been working in games for 15+ years creating and optimizing rigs and animations. I love crafting smooth, expressive characters and robust pipelines that let teams iterate quickly. I’m excited to apply my expertise to help a fun, collaborative team build amazing games while continuing to hone my animation skills. I’m eager to contribute my technical and creative strengths to a dynamic studio, continue growing as an artist, and mentor others along the way.…I have been working in games for 15+ years creating and optimizing rigs and animations. I love crafting smooth, expressive characters and robust pipelines that let teams iterate quickly. I’m excited to apply my expertise to help a fun, collaborative team build amazing games while continuing to hone my animation skills. I’m eager to contribute my technical and creative strengths to a dynamic studio, continue growing as an artist, and mentor others along the way.

Available to hire

I have been working in games for 15+ years creating and optimizing rigs and animations. I love crafting smooth, expressive characters and robust pipelines that let teams iterate quickly. I’m excited to apply my expertise to help a fun, collaborative team build amazing games while continuing to hone my animation skills.

I’m eager to contribute my technical and creative strengths to a dynamic studio, continue growing as an artist, and mentor others along the way.

Skills

Experience Level

Expert

Intermediate

Intermediate

Intermediate

Language

English

Fluent

Work Experience

Animator and Rigging at Checkerboard Mountain LLC

January 1, 2018 - November 1, 2022

Provided animation, rigging and 3D pipeline guidance and solutions for a variety of clients.

Animator and Technical Animator at Meta (via Insight Global)

December 1, 2022 - December 1, 2024

Created rigs, animations, simulations and VFX for home environments. Optimized assets to run on Quest headsets. Developed techniques to fake lighting and shadows on animated characters as they moved. Helped implement a new vertex animation texture pipeline utilizing Unreal to add more animation and life to VR homes.

Lead Tech Artist and Animator at React Games!, Midvale, UT

March 1, 2011 - January 1, 2018

Designed rigs, animations, VFX, and implemented them into Unity. Optimized assets and animations for mobile. Collaborated with designers, engineers, and artists as a producer on numerous projects.

Technical Artist at Sensor y Sweep, West Valley, UT

January 1, 2007 - February 1, 2009

Collaborated closely with animators to build efficient rigs. Skinning and weighting characters. Exported assets for in-house game engine. Wrote tools in MEL to speed up production. Trained employees on various production tools and exporting processes.

Adjunct Instructor at Salt Lake Community College (SLCC)

January 1, 2020 - May 1, 2022

Taught 3D animation and character rigging.

Adjunct Instructor at Neumont College of Computer Science

June 1, 2020 - August 1, 2022

Taught courses related to computer graphics and game development.