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Hi, I'm Timothy Babb, a 3D artist specializing in environment look development, technical art pipelines, and cross-disciplinary collaboration across art, engineering, and production teams. I thrive on building efficient workflows, mentoring teammates, and delivering high-quality visuals for film, TV, and education projects. I've led teams in both production and academic settings, developed curriculum and workshops for Houdini, ZBrush, and Substance Painter, and contributed to major projects like Antman Quantumania and Bad Boys 4. I'm passionate about blending art, code, and pipelines to empower artists and realize creative visions.…Hi, I'm Timothy Babb, a 3D artist specializing in environment look development, technical art pipelines, and cross-disciplinary collaboration across art, engineering, and production teams. I thrive on building efficient workflows, mentoring teammates, and delivering high-quality visuals for film, TV, and education projects. I've led teams in both production and academic settings, developed curriculum and workshops for Houdini, ZBrush, and Substance Painter, and contributed to major projects like Antman Quantumania and Bad Boys 4. I'm passionate about blending art, code, and pipelines to empower artists and realize creative visions.

Timothy Babb

3D Animator, Character Designer, Visual Effects Artist, +2

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Hi, I'm Timothy Babb, a 3D artist specializing in environment look development, technical art pipelines, and cross-disciplinary collaboration across art, engineering, and production teams. I thrive on building efficient workflows, mentoring teammates, and delivering high-quality visuals for film, TV, and education projects. I've led teams in both production and academic settings, developed curriculum and workshops for Houdini, ZBrush, and Substance Painter, and contributed to major projects like Antman Quantumania and Bad Boys 4. I'm passionate about blending art, code, and pipelines to empower artists and realize creative visions.…Hi, I'm Timothy Babb, a 3D artist specializing in environment look development, technical art pipelines, and cross-disciplinary collaboration across art, engineering, and production teams. I thrive on building efficient workflows, mentoring teammates, and delivering high-quality visuals for film, TV, and education projects. I've led teams in both production and academic settings, developed curriculum and workshops for Houdini, ZBrush, and Substance Painter, and contributed to major projects like Antman Quantumania and Bad Boys 4. I'm passionate about blending art, code, and pipelines to empower artists and realize creative visions.

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Hi, I’m Timothy Babb, a 3D artist specializing in environment look development, technical art pipelines, and cross-disciplinary collaboration across art, engineering, and production teams. I thrive on building efficient workflows, mentoring teammates, and delivering high-quality visuals for film, TV, and education projects.

I’ve led teams in both production and academic settings, developed curriculum and workshops for Houdini, ZBrush, and Substance Painter, and contributed to major projects like Antman Quantumania and Bad Boys 4. I’m passionate about blending art, code, and pipelines to empower artists and realize creative visions.

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Work Experience

3D Character Artist (Technical Art) at Meta via Aquent

April 1, 2024 - November 13, 2025

Develop and publish Maya tools via Maya Python API; fix model topology, UVs, skin weights, and manual LODs; manage Substance Painter and ZBrush workflows; ensure USDs are assembled correctly for delivery; train coworkers on pipeline workflows and assist in developing new workflows.

Senior Houdini Environment Artist at SpinVFX

March 1, 2024 - March 1, 2024

Create procedural 3D models (terrain, buildings, props, rocks, trees, foliage) and VDB clouds; develop procedural scattering systems with artistic controls; build USD workflows; create procedural tools including custom solvers via Python and VEX; lead environment artists and assist supervisors; contributed to Antman Quantumania, Bad Boys 4, Descendants 4, The Boys, Big George Foreman, and more.

Animation Program Director & Associate Director of the School of Digital Arts at Wichita State University

May 1, 2022 - May 1, 2022

Developed curriculum for Animation I–III, Rigging, Computer Modeling, Compositing & VFX, and Introduction to Houdini; led Houdini, Zbrush, Substance Painter workshops; managed Studio Projects; advised Animation Reel Coalition; provided academic advising.

Lead Environment Artist at A Visionz Production

January 1, 2017 - January 1, 2017

3D environment look development; 3D modeling, texturing, UV layout, shading, lighting and rendering; 3D camera tracking; water, particle, pyro, flip and fluid simulations; digital matte painting and 3D projections; 2D compositing; plugin development for tools and effects; VDB research and development for title sequence pipeline.

Teaching Faculty at Bethany College and Mindfire

December 31, 2019 - December 31, 2019

Developed curricula and taught Acting for Animation; developed curricula and taught Introduction to Computer Animation.

VFX Lead at 1 Byte Games

May 1, 2022 - May 1, 2022

Developed multiple AOE FX and Projectile FX in Unreal Engine; collaborated with Programming Lead on FX implementation.

Digital Projection Designer at Music Theatre Wichita

August 1, 2017 - August 1, 2017

3D character and environment look development; 3D character rigging; 3D modeling, texturing, UV layout, shading, lighting and rendering; 3D cloth, water, particle, pyro, flip and fluid simulations; digital matte painting and 3D projections; 2D compositing; UV tool development.

Digital Projection Artist at Walnut Street Theatre

December 31, 2017 - December 31, 2017

3D fluid, rigid body and particle simulations; 2D compositing; 3D rendering.