3D-animator (2022 – 2023)

Rigging, Skinning, 3D animation

Retarget, Mimics

Maya, Unity

The company is developing the VR metaverse and its companion mobile application.

I was the first animator at the mobile department. So, I acted as a universal animator:

- I created a pipeline and a rig recipe for avatars. Made an optimized rig for the skeleton and facial expressions. Since there were a lot of dances in the project, I set up twist joints in Unity. The facial expressions were made on morphs + a skeleton for the jaw and eyes for the LOD versions.

- Made rig, made loop positioning requirements for the modeler.

- I did optimised skinning with limited resources: weight for only 2-3 vertices.

- Made animations of facial expressions, idle, movement.

- Wrote simple scripts in MEL Maya to optimize work for other animators (attach/reattach bones, optimise bones and morphs, export objects to fbx).

- Cleaned and finalized dance and tricking animations received from the mocap studio.

- Set up the humanoid, hair and clothing physics in Unity.

Lead motion-designer (2020 – 2022)

Rigging, Skinning, 2D and 3D animation,

Direction, Art-leading, Render

Spine 2D, Maya, Adobe After Effects

The company made hyper casual mobile games.

The company wanted to improve the quality of ad creatives. I did both: creatives by my own hands and also have experience in management and conducting master classes for a small team as a lead:

- I taught how to do mesh and skinning correctly, because of what the quality of animations was grown,

- Learned the team to work with animation in Maya, and we made several 3D creatives,

- I improved the quality of the creatives by adding more background and location animations.

- improved communication between the art and animators department by building clearer rules of creating source files

Lead 3D-animator (2016 – 2020)

rigging, skinning, animation, mimics

3Ds Max, Maya, Unity

The company created VR simulators in various educational areas.

I was the first animator in the company and therefore came up with a pipeline for avatars. Firstly it was 3ds max CAT, and then I moved all the avatars to Maya, since it was more convenient to work with curves there. We used exclusively keyframe animation, whereby I improved and cultivated the sense of weight, dynamics and quality of hand animation. Also it gives me a vision of character geometry topology.

Video-designer (2013 – 2016)

3D modeling, 2D and 3D animation, FX, render

3Ds Max, Maya, Adobe After Effects

The company was engaged in the development of b2b CG videos for exhibitions.

Firstly I came as a trainee and made some simple 3D assets. Then my passion for animation was noticed and after a couple of years I was allowed to make animations.

Mostly I worked in 3ds max and After Effects.