Character and Creature Animator:

David M. Breaux Jr. www.siliconriot.com 818-***-****

Supervising / Senior Character & Creature Animator Professional Profile:

I’m a traditionally trained artist and animator skilled in drawing and sculpture seeking to join a team where I can apply my 24+ years of industry experience in character and creature animation in film, television, games and commercials. Experience in both pure game play and cinematic keyframe animation, motion capture editing / cleanup, pre-visualization / UE4 virtual production, 3D modeling, sculpting, and rigging. Skills: Professional Experience: Games / Film / VR / Television / Commercials Character Animation

Facial / Lip-Sync

Creature Animation

Pre visualization / Post- Viz

Storyboarding

Maya

3D Studio Max

Z-Brush

Motion Capture

3D Modeling

Rigging

Photoshop

Unreal Engine

Shotgun

Jira

ILM Immersive

Unannounced Interactive Project - Sr Animator 9/22 - 7/23 Unannounced VR / AR Project - Sr Animator 723 - 10/24 Epic Games / EvilEye Pictures - Lead Animator

Fortnite Season 5 Trailer - character animation 8/20 - 10/20 Fortnite Season 5 Kratos Enters Fortnite - character & creature animation 10/20 - 11/20 Fortnite Aliens - character & creature animation / rigging 11/20 - 2/5 Fortnite Season 6 - Trailer - character & creature animation / rigging 2/8 - 2/26 Fortnite Batman Zero Arrives - character animation & rigging 3/1 - 3/30 Fortnite Orelia Awakens - character animation 3/31 - 6/30 Fortnite Unannounced - character animation 6/30 - 9/3 Spaces Inc. - Supervising Animator

Terminator Salvation VR ( Location based VR ) - character & vehicle anim 2/19 - 10/19 Dreamland VR Theme Park ( Location based vr ride ) - character animation Pure Imagination Studios / FoxNext - Supervising Animator Alien Descent (free roaming vr experience) - creature & vehicle animation 6/18 - 9/18 Location Based VR Experience - character & creature animation 10/18 - 2/19 EA Games / Bioware - Senior Animator

StarWars The Old Republic - Knight of the Fallen Empire MMO, PC 1/15 - 10/15 In-game character and creature game-play animation and cinematic animation Pandemic Studios - Senior Animator

Spec Warrior / Midway - PC In-game character animation and rigging 12/02 - 4/03 Kinesoft - Lead Animator

MageLords / Independent - PC In-game animation, rigging, modeling & texture 4/00 - 2/01 David M. Breaux Jr. www.siliconriot.com 818-***-**** BLUR - Senior Animator

Halo 2 Master Chief Collection / Microsoft - Character and vehicle anim 3/14 - 7/14 Tom Clancy’s The Division Trailer / Ubisoft - Character anim 4/14 - 5/14 Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City Trailer / Capcom - Character anim 4/11 - 7/11 Digital Domain - Senior Animator

Games:

Ultimate Rivals / Apple Arcade Trailer - Final character animation - 12/19 Unannounced / Trailer - Final character animation - 11/19 Medal of Honor Rising Sun / EA E3 Trailer - Final character animation - 4/03 - 6/03 007 Everything or Nothing / EA E3 Trailer - Final character animation - 5/03 Film:

Jungle Book - Rig dev for Ka, previs for Ka, Mowgli, King Louie, Baloo - 10/14 - 1/15 Thor - Final animation and digital doubles - 12/10 - 4/11 Real Steel - Final animation keyframe and mocap editing for robots - 9/10 - 11/10 Tron Legacy - Final character and vehicle animation - 3/10 - 9/10 Speed Racer: Previs and final car and driver animation - 9/8 - 4/8 The Mill - Senior Animator

Energizer Bunny “Writing On The Lens” - Bunny Animation - 6/17 - 8/17 Energizer Bunny “VR” - Bunny Animation - 8/17 - 9/17 Energizer Bunny “Poof” - Bunny Animation - 7/17 - 8/17 HayDay Hug 360 VR Youtube Video - Sheep Animation - 5/17 - 6/17 Encore VFX - Senior Animator 11/15 - 6/18

The Flash Season 2,3 & 4 - Characters, Creature Animation, Digital Doubles Legends of Tomorrow Season 1, 2 & 3 - Character Animation, Digital Doubles Supergirl Season 1,2 & 3 - Characters Animation, Digital Doubles Black Lightning Season 1 - Creature and Object Animation Titans Season 1 - Character and Creature Animation Seal Team Season 1 - Aircraft Animation

David M. Breaux Jr. www.siliconriot.com 818-***-**** Accomplishments

Teacher / Mentor

Rhythm & Hues Mentorship 2005: Mentored multiple junior animators on creature animation The Gnomon School of VFX 2012 - 2021: Teach Animation courses from Intro to animation, and body mechanics up to advanced character and creature animation. Animation Mentor 2016 - 2018: Taught Intro through advanced character animation John Hughes Institute / Arizona State University 2020: Real-Time previs using the Unreal Engine Anim School 2023 - 2024: Taught Game Animation Pipeline where students learn to animate quadruped creature movements using the schools game rigs, export their creature movement, attacks, and flight animations into the game engine. and finally work with cleaning and modifying motion capture data. Speaker

The Directors Guild of America: Digital Days 2012 Non-Human Characters Creating Creatures: Physical or Digital

CTNX Convention - Adding Character to your Creatures Presenter

The Future of Film - Epic Games UE Fellowship Short Films Judge

The 37th Annual Annie Awards, honoring the best in animation for 2009 Education

The Columbus College of Art & Design,Bachelors of Fine Arts / Illustration Columbus, OH 1990 -1994

Epic Games Fellowship: Inaugural Unreal Engine Virtual Production Course May 2020

References

“What's great about Dave is that he's great at a lot of things. He can wear many hats and wears them well. If you have a question about sculpting, animating, editing, or even story, Dave’s your man. People like Dave are hard to come by at work. Someone that can inspire and elevate your own work.”

-Kelsey Mann - Story supervisor at Pixar Animation Studios Dave is a very experienced animator and well versed in many styles and platforms. Whether working on character animation, previs, creatures or digital doubles, Dave brings a positive attitude and steady enthusiasm for any task. His knowledge of practical creature effects was also a big plus for our VFX work. Colin Brady - AMGI Animation Studios

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