Job Summary

CG Generalist | Reel FX

Overview
My job was providing overall support and performing various technical fixes throughout the pipeline, including animation, lighting, and rendering. I was responsible for fixing animation mistakes, rendering shots for review, troubleshooting technical errors, and assisting with any other quality assurance tasks.

• Animation Cleanup​​

  • Helped to ensure the animation in each shot had no technical mistakes​

    • Cleaned up character geometry for character effects (CFX) artists​

      • Created pose shape deformers (PSDs) and blend shapes for a clean CFX simulation​

    • Fixed character and object interpenetration by modifying rig controls and keyframes

• Pre-Lighting Cleanup

  • Rendered shots with low-quality lighting to ensure there were no technical errors for lighting artists​

    • Fixed technical mistakes in the environment and animation seen in the low-quality lighting render​

      • Ex. wrong layout, different character variants, missing assets​

• Technical Fixes

  • Performed various technical fixes by troubleshooting different parts of the pipeline​

    • Communicated with artists and technical directors to assist with technical errors

      • Ex. asset not rendering, object not importing, pipeline issues, file errors​