Featured·Leading Animation on Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3+4
Senior Animator with 15 years of animation experience, 13 within the video game industry, including leadership roles. Known for mentoring artists, facilitating cross-discipline collaboration, and promoting personality and narrative across gameplay and cinematics. Excels at keyframe animation, mocap refinement, and leveraging Python and MEL scripting to optimize Maya workflows — delivering quality results and elevating team performance across original titles and remasters.
Notable Projects
Resume
Skills
Technical Tools
- Maya
- Unreal Engine 4 & 5
- Perforce
- Jira
- Confluence
- Excel
Expertise
- Gameplay Animation
- Cinematic Animation
- Facial Animation
- Mocap Direction & Refinement
- Storyboarding
Proficiencies
- Python Scripting
- MEL Scripting
- Rigging
Notable Projects
Iron Galaxy Studios | 2012 – Present
Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3+4 (Released 2025) - Lead Animator
- Identified unscoped NPC system gap in pre-production and drove cross-discipline solution with design and production leads, securing additional staffing and scoping a mocap shoot
- Developed facial animation pipeline for Frontend pro skaters and drove cross-discipline collaboration with engineering and design to extend facial support into gameplay
- Fostered team ownership by mentoring animators to independently lead animation and design collaboration
- Led animation team of 3 across skitching, special trick systems, NPC animation, and cinematic reimaginings from the original games
Rumbleverse (Released 2022) - Lead Animator
- Led animation team of 6 across two pods, managing a sublead overseeing the emote team while directly leading gameplay animation
- Collaborated with design lead to translate art direction into traversal, combat, and special attack animations that aligned aesthetic with function
- Animated 2 shots of the Rumbleverse pitch trailer
Killer Instinct Season 2 and 3 (Released 2013, 2016) - Animator
- Animated the full suite of navigation, attacks, specials, grabs, cinematic intros, outros, and retargeting reactions for TJ Combo, Maya, ARIA, Hisako, Cinder, Tusk, Arbiter, and Gargos; additional support on Kilgore, Shin Hisako, and Eagle