Work experience
02.2025 — present
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.
Education
2019 — 2022
Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Animation
University of Derby — England
- Strong foundation in body mechanics, locomotion, character performance and production pipelines.
Technical skills
3+ years
Autodesk Maya
- Character & Creature Animation
- Mo-cap cleanup
- Facial Animation
- Scripting with Python and MEL
1+ year
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)
1+ year
Unreal Engine
- Animation Blueprint
- 3C implementation, animation blueprint workflow, cinematic integration
1+ year
Audio-to-Face Workflow
- Facial animation enhancement, lip-sync refinement, dialogue performance polish
Basic
Python / MEL
- Animation workflow scripting and automation
Languages
English
Fluent
Japanese
JLPT N5