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Unannounced Mobile Game (Existing IP)

Sun, 22 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Company: Noid
When: September 2023 to December 2024
Genres: Online, 3D, multiplayer, adventure.
Engine: Unity
Platform: Mobile

Overview

As the only technical animator on small team, I was responsible for the animation pipeline and tools, character rigging (Blender and Motionbuilder), character setup and hair-sim in Unity, as well as supporting the animation team in their work.

Project Video

Video Breakdown

Pipeline installer

Python CLI app, using Click and PyInstaller
Uses uv to manage tools and Python setup
Sets up Artifactory auth, uv, Python and all pipeline tools
Creates desktop shortcuts for all tools (Motionbuilder 2024, Blender 3.6 and Blender 4.2)

Blender and Motionbuilder Animation exporter

Qt (PySide) and Pydantic
Shared UI across Blender and Motionbuilder
Export one or multiple takes/actions to multiple locations
Store exporter settings in current scene

Blender asset browser tools

Add project asset libraries to Blender on launch, and sync them with SVN
Export assets from current file to project asset libraries, using tags

Blender weight-transfer tool

Transfer skin-weights from one source mesh to one or several target meshes
Transfer skin-weights to all LOD steps

Blender debugging and testing

Start debug server in Blender and connect with VS Code
Run tests or launch Blender directly from VS Code
Run tests with Blender from terminal
Skip UI tests if Blender is running in background mode

The Division: Heartland

Fri, 01 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Company: Ubisoft Stockholm
When: May 2023 to September 2023
Genres: Online, third-person, multiplayer, survival
Engine: Snowdrop (Ubisoft internal)
Platform: PC, console

Overview

My main focus for this project was tools and pipeline, working together with the animation and tech art teams at Ubisoft Red Storm to map out issues with their existing setup, and worked towards upgrading to the latest tools from Snowdrop while maintaining compatibility with their existing assets.

Ubisoft Scalar

Wed, 01 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Company: Ubisoft Stockholm
When: January 2023 to March 2023
What: Engine tech, cloud, micro-services
Project info

Overview

Worked with the Scalar content team to develop a Python micro-service for converting USD data to/from the format of our internal animation system.

I also worked on several other related systems while on another unannounced project at Ubisoft Stockholm.

Unannounced Game (New IP)

Wed, 01 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Company: Ubisoft Stockholm
When: March 2020 to January 2023
What: Game based on new IP, using Ubisoft Scalar cloud tech

Overview

I started work on this project as an animator, doing various prototype animations and rigs using both Motionbuilder and Maya, either getting into our Xsens motion capture suit or doing keyframe animation depending on the task.

In late 2021, I officially moved over to technical animation, and started working on learning Python and developing the animation pipeline for the project together with the technical animation director. I also continued doing rigging and character implementation work, and took part in building tools for Ubisoft Scalar.

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora

Sun, 01 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Company: Ubisoft Stockholm
When: January 2019 to March 2020
Genres: Action-adventure, open world, single-player, multiplayer
Engine: Snowdrop (Ubisoft internal)
Platform: PC, console

Overview

I worked as an animator on the narrative team, where I did some cinematic work, but mainly focused on animation for the game’s dialogue system.

Working with the animation lead, I helped develop the motion capture workflow and planned and directed the first shoot for the dialogue system animation.

Rage 2

Sat, 01 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Company: Avalanche Studios
When: April 2017 to December 2018
Genres: First-person shooter, open world, single-player.
Engine: Apex (Avalanche internal)
Platform: PC and console

Overview

I worked as an animator on the narrative team, being involved in all of the in-game cinematics for the game in some form.

I was part of the planning and on set for all of the motion capture shoots, and managed the scene assembly for all of the cinematics.