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I am a passionate 3D Generalist and Technical Artist who thrives on crafting believable worlds through animation, character performance, and efficient pipelines. I love collaborating with artists and engineers to push creative boundaries while optimizing workflows for games and films. I am always eager to take on new challenges, learn new tools, and contribute to compelling storytelling with technically robust art and animation pipelines.…I am a passionate 3D Generalist and Technical Artist who thrives on crafting believable worlds through animation, character performance, and efficient pipelines. I love collaborating with artists and engineers to push creative boundaries while optimizing workflows for games and films. I am always eager to take on new challenges, learn new tools, and contribute to compelling storytelling with technically robust art and animation pipelines.

Robert I. Brumfield

3D Animator, Game Designer, Game Developer, +3

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I am a passionate 3D Generalist and Technical Artist who thrives on crafting believable worlds through animation, character performance, and efficient pipelines. I love collaborating with artists and engineers to push creative boundaries while optimizing workflows for games and films. I am always eager to take on new challenges, learn new tools, and contribute to compelling storytelling with technically robust art and animation pipelines.…I am a passionate 3D Generalist and Technical Artist who thrives on crafting believable worlds through animation, character performance, and efficient pipelines. I love collaborating with artists and engineers to push creative boundaries while optimizing workflows for games and films. I am always eager to take on new challenges, learn new tools, and contribute to compelling storytelling with technically robust art and animation pipelines.

Available to hire

I am a passionate 3D Generalist and Technical Artist who thrives on crafting believable worlds through animation, character performance, and efficient pipelines. I love collaborating with artists and engineers to push creative boundaries while optimizing workflows for games and films.

I am always eager to take on new challenges, learn new tools, and contribute to compelling storytelling with technically robust art and animation pipelines.

Skills

Experience Level

Expert

Expert

Expert

Expert

Expert

Expert

Expert

Expert

Expert

Expert

Expert

Expert

Intermediate

Intermediate

Language

English

Fluent

Spanish; Castilian

Advanced

Work Experience

Technical Animator (Contract) at Emotions Gaming

June 1, 2025 - Present

Rigging and implementing characters into Unreal Engine; configure animation blueprints, state machines, and other animation systems; animation linking; upper and lower body animation blending; dynamic additive animation; building layered animation systems for player and enemy interactions and weapon systems.

Technical Animator (Contract) at T’sarE

January 1, 2024 - Present

Rigging and animating humanoid and non-humanoid characters with varying rigging needs; produced full animation libraries for various characters including cycles and transitions; all characters and animations created in Maya and implemented into Unreal Engine 5.

Adjunct Professor at College of Lake County

January 1, 2023 - Present

Created lesson plans, class modules/chapters, and homework projects for 200-level 3D Animation courses involving Cinema 4D, Substance Painter, and Photoshop. Delivered classes on the history of animation, fundamentals, lighting, rendering, proper modeling topology, and animation principles; managed grading, office hours, and class discussions.

Lead Technical Artist and Character Rigging / Animator at DePaul D.O.G.S (Yesterlandia - Indie Game)

December 31, 2023 - September 8, 2025

Founding member; coordinated art pipeline and performance; sole 3D artist on a team of 10; collaborated with producers, writers, and concept artists to develop rapid prototypes; modeled, rigged, textured, animated, and implemented game characters; documented design bible for character art, rigging, and animation pipeline; designed a reusable master rig across Maya/Blender/Unreal; used Perforce for source control.

Lead Character Animator / Technical Artist at Freelance

December 31, 2022 - September 8, 2025

Rigged and animated a non-humanoid multi-limbed character with complex locomotion for an indie CG live action short; collaborated with producers and pipeline team from concept to compositing.

Modeler / Rigger / Animator at Freelance

December 31, 2021 - September 8, 2025

Designed, rigged, skinned, and textured a limbless character specifically for VR motion capture.

Technical Artist at Freelance – Food Chain (Indie Game)

December 31, 2022 - September 8, 2025

Handled technical aspects including art direction and visual exploration; developed art assets, shading/lighting systems, with a focus on technical performance. Assets were designed to enable 2D/3D hybrid visuals; developed in Unreal Engine, Maya, and Substance Painter.

Character Animator / Technical Artist at Freelance – Interior Disaster (Animated Short Film)

December 31, 2021 - September 8, 2025

Designed, modeled, and animated several non-humanoid characters; 3D visualization, layout, and lighting for scenes; project premiered at the L.A. Student Film Awards and was officially selected and honored at several festivals.

Character Animator at Freelance – Hominade (VR Animated Short Film)

December 31, 2020 - September 8, 2025

Animated non-humanoid characters for a DePaul University award-winning VR film featured at Sundance 2020.

Instructor / Counselor at ID Tech Camps

August 31, 2019 - September 8, 2025

Led Junior Game Development courses in Maya and Unreal Engine; created lesson plans with other instructors; instructed classes of 5–10 students on game design and asset creation.

IT Security Intern at Heidrick & Struggles Intl

March 31, 2019 - September 8, 2025

Worked on the clean-up and restructuring of multiple global Microsoft Active Directory trees and forests.

Technical Animator (Contract) at Emotions Gaming

June 1, 2025 - Present

Rigging and implementing characters into Unreal Engine; configure animation blueprints, state machines, and animation systems, including animation linking, upper and lower body animation blending, and dynamic additive animation. Built layered animation systems for player and enemy interactions and weapon systems.

Technical Animator (Contract) at T’sarE

January 1, 2024 - Present

Rigging and animating humanoid and non-humanoid characters; created full animation libraries for various characters, including cycles and transitions; all animations created in Maya and implemented into Unreal Engine 5.

Adjunct Professor at College of Lake County

January 1, 2023 - Present

Created lesson plans, class modules/chapters, and homework projects for 200 level 3D Animation courses involving Cinema 4D, Substance Painter, and Photoshop. Delivered classes instructing students on topics such as the history of animation, the fundamentals of 3D animation and modeling, lighting, and rendering, proper modeling topology and animation principals. Managing several administrative duties including grading coursework, facilitating office hours, and managing class time work and discussions.

Lead Technical Artist and Character Rigging / Animator at DePaul D.O.G.S (Yesterlandia – Indie Game)

January 1, 2023 - October 12, 2025

Founding member of DePaul Original Games Studios; designed art/tech pipeline for technical and artistic performance; led a 10-member team; collaborated with producers and faculty to prototype visuals; later modeled/sculpted, rigged, textured, animated, and implemented several game characters; developed and documented the LinkedIn/Artstation portfolio design bible for character art, rigging and animation pipeline; created a reusable master rig across Maya, Blender, Unreal and used Perforce for source control.

Lead Character Animator / Technical Animator at Freelance – Chicago, IL

December 31, 2022 - October 12, 2025

Rigged and animated a non-humanoid multi-limbed character with complex locomotion for an indie CG live action short film; collaborated with producers and pipeline team from concept to compositing.

Modeler / Rigger / Animator at Freelance – Chicago, IL

December 31, 2021 - October 12, 2025

Designed, rigged, skinned, and textured a limbless character specifically for VR motion capture.

Technical Artist – Freelance at Food Chain – Indie Game

January 1, 2022 - Present

Handled technical art direction and visual exploration; developed art assets, shading/lighting systems with emphasis on technical performance; supported 2D/3D hybrid visuals using Unreal Engine, Maya, and Substance Painter.

Character Animator/Technical Artist – Freelance at Interior Disaster – Animated Short Film

December 31, 2021 - October 12, 2025

Designed, modeled, and animated several non-humanoid characters; contributed to 3D visualization, layout, and lighting for scenes; project premiered at the LA Student Film Awards and earned festival recognition.

Character Animator – Freelance at Hominade – VR Animated Short Film

December 31, 2020 - October 12, 2025

Animated non-humanoid characters for an award-winning student VR film featured in the 2020 Sundance Film Festival.

Instructor / Counselor at ID Tech Camps

August 31, 2019 - October 12, 2025

Led Junior Game Development courses in Maya and Unreal Engine; coordinated and created lesson plans with other instructors; instructed classes of 5–10 students on a variety of subjects related to game design and asset creation.

IT Security Intern at Heidrick & Struggles Intl

March 31, 2019 - October 12, 2025

Worked on the clean-up and restructuring of multiple global Microsoft Active Directory trees and forests.