Rigging on HW Animation Tech

Europa Universalis V: Pre-Purchase Trailer

Tue, 09 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Overview

Another project I got to work on with the awesome people at Svep Studios.

This time I handled the skinning and posing of all the miniatures in the trailer.

Breakdown

We received rigged in-game character assets as FBX files, together with high-poly static meshes. I set up a workflow in Maya for transferring the skinning to the high-poly models, with some manual touch-ups where needed, posed the models with various weapons and equipment and then exported multiple variations per character and pose as static meshes that the team at Svep could use in the trailer.

Europa Universalis V: Announcement Trailer

Mon, 12 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Overview

This was the first project I worked on as a consultant, thanks to Svep Studios for the confidence!

Breakdown

I was responsible for all of the character rigs in the trailer, as well as handling the animation for the army shots (00:41 and 01:10) using motion capture and cloth simulation in Maya.

All of the rigs, including the horse, was done with Human IK in Maya, with some additional custom rigging for the reigns and the stirrups on the horse.

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

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.