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Super Giant Robot Brothers

TV Series | Netflix

2022 | TV-Y7 | 1 Season, 10 Episodes

Animation, Action, Adventure

Synopsis
Super Giant Robot Brothers is an animated TV series about two squabbling robot brothers who experience growing pains while battling bloodthirsty monsters, supernatural disasters, and mundane personal issues. In the future, they must defend the Earth from an evil intergalactic empire that is sending kaiju to destroy the world.

The series is rendered entirely in real-time using Unreal Engine and uses virtual production techniques such as motion capture and virtual camera blocking to help stage scenes and animate characters.

Release Date
August 4, 2022

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Demo Reel

CG Generalist | Reel FX

About
This is a demo reel which includes some of the FX animations I made for various shots. I was responsible for taking the FX asset (made by the FX artists), placing it in the scene, and animating the effect through the effect's attributes such as scale, speed, color, variance, noise, etc. 

Super Giant Robot Brothers: Demo Reel
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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.

  • FX Animation​​

    • Animated FX assets under guidance of the director and supervisors

      • Added FX assets to Unreal Engine and animated them using parameters created by the FX artists

        • Ex. adjusting the scale, speed, color, and movement of jet thrusters, explosions, lasers, impact effects, smoke, and debris 

  • Animation Cleanup

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

      • Modified environment layouts in Unreal Engine to match the desired design​

        • Ex. rearranging environment assets, adding correct shaders, troubleshooting file errors​

      • Performed animation caches in Maya and transferred them to Unreal Engine

  • Quality Checks

    • Performed quality checks to ensure each shot had no technical errors​

      • Rendered playblasts and shots with low-quality lighting for group reviews

        • Used screenshots and draw overs to note any technical mistakes in the shot

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Credits

Director: Mark Andrews (Brave)

Creators: Víctor Maldonado, Alfredo Torres

Stars: Eric Lopez, Chris Diamantopoulos, Marisa Davila

Production Companies: Netflix, Reel FX, Assemblage

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