Objective

To push forward the limits on quality and technology of real time animation together with an inspiring team.

Experience

2007-present - Milestone Srl, Italy.

• Motocross World Championship (pre-production) - Lead Animator: currently creating and prototyping new animations, blend trees, scripted tools and pipeline from scratch to use with EmotionFX animation system from Mystic Game Development.
• World Rally Championship (PS3, Xbox360, PC) - Lead Animator and Senior 3d Artist: keyframing of driver/codriver, ambient life, public, marshals. Supervising and managerial tasks of animation assets and outsourcing production of drivers' texture assets. Setting up pipeline and rigging of characters.
• Superbike X (in beta for PS3, Xbox360, PC) - Lead Animator: responsible for all in-game and cut-scene animations, from concept to final product, including breaking down the shot list, directing the motion capture session and supervising freelance animators. Implemented prop animations on the pipeline.
• Superbike 2009 (PS3, Xbox360, PSP, PS2, PC) - Lead Animator: responsible for all in-game and cut-scene animations, from concept to final product, including breaking down the shot list, directing the motion capture session and supervising freelance animators.
• MotoGP 2008 (PS3, Xbox360, Wii, PSP, PS2, PC) - Senior Bike Artist: supervised two different outsourcing companies, two external freelancers and two in-house artists on the creation and debugging of over hundreds of bike assets.
• Superbike 2008 (PS3, Xbox360, PSP, PS2, PC) – Animator: keyframed all characters for box and starting grid cut-scenes, improved and debugged in-game rider animations, plus some modeling.

2007 - Mindware Studios, Czech Republic.

• Painkiller Overdose (PC) - Animator: animated characters and weapons, with keyframe and mocap.

2006-2007 - Bohemia Interactive Studio, Czech Republic.

• Armed Assault, and ArmA Queens Gambit (expansion disk, both PC) – Artist and Animator: Modeled, rigged and keyframed wild life (dog, rabbit, birds, goat, etc). Tweaked and improved mocap for in-game soldiers movement and transitions.

Education

2000-2005: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil; Bachelor in Fine Arts, with free-choice courses done in the Drama faculty. Completed with an animated short.

1998-1999: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil; Bachelor in Computer Science. Incomplete.

Tools

All tools were self-taught.

Other Relevant Experience

Between 1999 and 2004 co-founded two different indie game development studios in Brazil and worked as a manager and as an artist on the production of 4 prototypes and many different business plans. Also finished two short films between 2003 and 2005.

For 9 months in 2003 I've also taught classes of 3d Studio Max for SoftCad, a Discreet Certified Training Center in Porto Alegre, Brazil.

Skills Overview

Extensive experience with animation, both keyframed and motion captured. Worked with all artistic aspects of game development and with many different engines and pipelines. Excellent knowledge of Maxscript, Python and rigging solutions.

I have experience leading different sized teams, scheduling and managing asset production, from both my last and firsts experiences. I'm proactive and really team focused, sharing and using works of others is a must for me. I have great communication skills, am a really fast learner, extremely flexible to handle all kinds of different situations, easy to receive and give criticism. Also strong initiative with either new uses of technologies or their application on business.

Mother language is Portuguese, but I'm also fluent in English and Italian, having used all three on different work environments.