Software Knowledge
Maya, Substance Painter, *D Coat, Zbrush, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere Pro,
Adobe After Effects, Unreal Engine 4 and 5, Arnold Renderer, Unity Professional Skills
3D Character, Creature, Facial and Prop Rigging, 3D Animation, 3D Character Modeling and UVing, Texturing, Director Experience, 3D Pipeline Production Management, Sound Design and Editing, Python and MEL Scripting
Work Experience
• Sony Pictures Imageworks : May 2022 - January 2023 / July 2023 - January 2024 Body Rigging Artist
Rigged, troubleshooted, created build scripts, and correctives shapes to Characters/ props for the films
Spiderman: Across the Spiderverse and Kpop Demon Hunters
• Bardel Entertainment : January 2024 - Present
Rigging Artist
Rigged, troubleshooted, added correctives, built tools for pipeline with Maya and Python for Unannounced Feature Project
• Digital Domain : Febuary - July 2023
Rigging Artist
Rigged, troubleshooted, created build scripts, and correctives shapes to Characters/ props for the films
Madame Web, Captain America Brave New World, and Ashoka
• Zoic Studios : February - April 2022
Rigging Artist
Rigged Characters/props for CW’s The Flash, Stargirl, For For All Mankind, Stormgate Announcment Cinematic and other TV shows
• Twisted Mountain Animation : May 2021 - January 2022 Rigging Artist
Rigged and skinned Characters/props for Riot Games 2021 Opening Ceremony, Wild Rift Dragonmancer Trailer, Apex Legends: Stories from the outlands, Avatar Generations and more games/cinematics and adverts.
Education
Savannah College of Art and Design (Atlanta Campus) - Bachelor of Fine Arts in Animation Rigging Dojo - Apprenticeship program
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JAMES JOHNSON
3D CHARACTER RIGGER