Animator / Rigger at Slapstick Studios

Slapstick Studios specialises in animation production for a wide variety of industries and is here to help with the necessities of your animation requirements. Previous projects have involved motion capture clean-up with support onset and managing the transfer of capture data to control rigs for both facial and body. Rigging and skinning characters, creating animation pipelines to work for specific project requirements and helping with technical support. Keyframe character animation for advertisements, cinematics and stylistic or cartoon characters. Game animation and pipeline support for AAA games, mobile games, virtual reality and realtime projects. Unreal engine metaHuman pipelines and custom creations for photo realistic avatar reproduction with high end facial animation. Whatever your animation needs, Slapstick Studios should have it covered. Experienced with AAA games, mobile games, Virtual Reality, Realtime, cinematics, media and TV commercials and cartoon animation. With over 15 years of professional experience and recent experience in Lead and Senior positions I have a technical knowledge of most workflows enabling me to be a useful part of every team I join. I am skilled in keyframe and motion capture and creating animation tool sets.

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