Technical Artist – Character Rigger

Challenges: No rigging pipeline process founded, development team had little understanding of the production pipeline placement of rigging, back & forth executive decisions that required a re-haul of character rigging assets in several stages of production.
These challenges were overcome by management entrusting & empowering the rigging team to make & execute decisions of their own accord as to how they work & solve character production issues, having a positive attitude & accountability, and communication with programmers & leads.

Challenges: Short production cycle, large team, lots of new tech, internal pipeline transitions, lots of cuts & change requests, builds crashing like no tomorrow.
These challenges were overcome by keeping a positive attitude, learning as much & as fast as possible, having accountability, communication with team members, having high standards, and persistence.

Challenges: Constant reviewing, providing feedback, and adjusting of outsourced assets, creating effective weights for mascots with default skeleton, model assets & weights not positioned correctly in-game, dynamic cloth adjustments.
These challenges were overcome by providing & updating the tutorial materials used for outsourced studios, creative improvising of weight distribution, verifying correctly called skeletons, and documenting & saving progress.

Challenges: Small team & limited resources, team not in close proximity (or building), unique tools, expressive animation ranges, limited quantization of weights, lots of model changes.
These challenges were overcome by early strategic planning & strict deadlines, improved distance communication habits, studying tool scripts, improvising weight allocation, effective communication with lead modeler.

Challenges: First project, late entry, large team, not familiar with studio, lots of dependencies.
These challenges were overcome by being proactive, extra hours studying tools, getting hands dirty & feet wet, making mistakes & correcting them, showing humility & asking for help when necessary, and not waiting for anything.

Challenges: Weighting card hair to sway, low quantization for weights, geo & positioning changes, visible separate geo seams in-game.
These challenges were overcome by learning & utilizing in-house weighting tools, effective weight allocation, animation testing, and proficient troubleshooting methods.

Challenges: Very ambitious project, late entry, limited development time, little rigging & animation experience, required several rigs & multiple animation libraries & sequences, game engine transition.
These challenges were overcome by maximizing team work, communication, and free lab times, assistance from instructors, and studying & sharing knowledge with other teams.