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REEL BREAKDOWN:

1. Aldi 2022: Feast of Football

Responsible for Messy (blueberry) character rig. Built with Psyop's internal rigging tools.

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2. Aldi 2023: Kevin and the Christmas Factory 

Responsible for all factory machine rigs (pie cart, drone, snowman lift, pie smasher, and pudding machine)

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3. Apex Legends: Breakout Launch Trailer 

Responsible for updating & maintaining 4 character rigs. The film has a lot of 1st person camera angle, so the hand animation was important. I replaced the hand model with new proportion & default pose.

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4. Urban Warrior

Free game ready rig! Collaboration with Mark Otyakovskiy(Modeler) and Hichan Havchi(Concept Artist). I used advanced skeleton for body rig, my custom rigging tool for facial rig.

Review by Harvey Newman

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5. Budweiser - Las Vegas Sphere

Responsible for rig and tech animation. Horse model & rig was purchased from Turbosquid. I created a full IK & space switch system so the animator could animate on the ctrls, not directly on joints.

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6. DotGabi - Fire

DotGabi - Fire is a film I directed for School of Visual Art senior thesis. It's an animated K-Pop music video! Created by Kaia Kim, Jenna Vopat.

7. Facial auto rigger

Maya python tool for building facial rigs. Can export out the data into JSON file and import it to inherit the build. Compatible in Maya 2022+.

Download from Github

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