Location
Dallas, TX
Experience
Assistant Professor of Practice – Animation & Games
The University of Texas at Dallas
As an Assistant Professor of Practice in Animation & Games at the University of Texas at Dallas, I teach and mentor students in 3D animation and game design. With extensive industry experience, I focus on blending creativity with technology, helping students build the skills they need to succeed in the digital arts.
Modeling Supervisor
Mindshow
I oversee a team of character artists creating high-quality virtual characters for our Unity Mindshow VR platform. Collaborating with art directors, riggers, artists, animators, and vendors, I ensure our characters meet top visual and performance standards for real-time and for rendering in our animation pipeline. I also work with Animation Director and animators to created AR blendshapes to the Mindshow’s VR software to be used in our AI system.
Project:
Barbie: Doll Adventures Season 1 - 3
Barbie Dream Bestie Season 1
Monster High Music Videos:
Best of Both Worlds ft. Clawd
Perfect Recipe ft. Frankie & Draculaura
Mix and Match Ft. Clawdeen, Cleo & Frankie
Nightmare Scare ft. Twyla, Draculaura, Clawdeen, & Frankie
Creepover Party ft. Draculaura, Clawdeen, Frankie & Twyla
Lead Modeler
Reel fx
Create environments and character models for animated movies, animated shorts, commercials,
and VR products for clients. Worked with Supervisors and Producers to help lead and mentor artists in the modeling department
Project:
Animated Movie: Monkey King (2023)
Animated Movie: Scoob! Holiday Haunt (In-production)
Animated Movie: Back to the Outback (2021)
Animated Movie: Rumble (2021)
Animated Movie: Scoob (2020)
Animated Movie: UglyDolls (2019)
VR Animated Short: Son of Jaguar (2017)
Animated Movie: Rock Dog (2016)
Animated Movie: The Book of Life (2014)
Animated Movie: Free Birds (2013)
Animated Short: Daffy’s Rhapsody (2012)
Animated Short: I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat (2011)
Modeler
Walt Disney Animation
Animated Movie: Tangled (2010)
Animated Short: Tick Tock Tale (2010)
Freelance Modeler
Motus Digital
Character modeling for motion capture with facial blend shapes. Off and On in a span of 9 months
Freelance Character Artist
Blacksheep VFX
Remote Modeling, facial blend shape and texturing
Freelance Character Artist
Nfernal Games
Remote Character Modeling and Texturing
Normal map baking
High and Low Poly character creation