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Work experience

Associate Animator @ Technicolor Games

Bangalore, India  ·  Part of TransPerfect

Announced AAA Title

  • Create cinematic facial performances using a muscle-based FACS facial animation pipeline.
  • Refine lip-sync, dialogue delivery, and facial expressions to achieve realistic character performances.
  • Polish motion capture facial data to maintain natural performance fidelity and emotional nuance.
  • Collaborate closely with animation teams within a high-end AAA production pipeline to deliver polished cinematic content.
  • Utilise proprietary tools and workflows to support animation iteration, review, and implementation.

NBA 2K26 / NBA 2K27

  • Created AAA-standard body animations focused on cinematic sequences — camera-based and 360° all-angle shots, crowd animations and multi-minute cutscenes — based on motion capture with hand-keyed refinements.
  • Motion capture cleanup and technical animation polish: foot sliding fixes, jitter cleanup, clean arcs of motion, prop alignment, and hand pose refinement.
  • Worked with proprietary pipelines and version control for animation iteration management, asset integration, and in-engine playback validation between Maya and game engine tools.
  • Collaborative team player in a fast-paced, quota-driven production environment.
Autodesk Maya MotionBuilder Unreal Engine Mo-cap cleanup FACS Facial Animation Audio-to-Face

Education

Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Animation

University of Derby — England

  • Strong foundation in body mechanics, locomotion, character performance and production pipelines.

Technical skills

Autodesk Maya

  • Character & Creature Animation
  • Mo-cap cleanup
  • Facial Animation
  • Scripting with Python and MEL

Autodesk MotionBuilder

  • Mo-cap cleanup & hand-keyed prop animation
  • Character retargeting (Character Controls, Mapping Templates)
  • Story Tool (blends, splicing, cut edits)
  • Locomotion polish (stride, loops, transitions)

Unreal Engine

  • Animation Blueprint
  • 3C implementation, animation blueprint workflow, cinematic integration

Audio-to-Face Workflow

  • Facial animation enhancement, lip-sync refinement, dialogue performance polish

Python / MEL

  • Animation workflow scripting and automation

Languages

English Fluent
Japanese JLPT N5