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Stephen Rodriguez Resume

Cell Phone: (830) 421-0703

Summary: Character animation specialist with a foundation of art and design.

Skills:

⦁ Experience creating animations for Unity and Unreal

⦁ Knowledge of Acting and Body Mechanics for Animation

⦁ Lip sync and Facial Animation

⦁ Modeling and Rigging

⦁ Proficient with Faceware Retargeter and Analyzer

⦁ Proficient with Adobe After Effects, Illustrator and Photoshop

⦁ Experience with SVN Tortoise and Trello

Experience:

⦁ Character Animator for VHSS lab at UT Dallas (February 2016 – May 2019) (https://vimeo.com/475205728) (https://vimeo.com/475206057)

Roles/Responsibilities:

Created a variety of facial, body and prop animations using Maya, Unity and Faceware.

Worked with feedback from our team as well as a speech therapist to ensure accuracy of visemes for lip sync animations in game.

Used Unity to ensure in game animations worked properly and functioned as they appeared in Maya.

⦁ Character Animator for Blipd LLC (May 2019 - Nov 2020)

Roles/Responsibilities:

Created numerous animations for various characters for “Shopkins Shop n’ Seek and exported for use in Unity.

Maintained animations across character updates and revisions.

Worked with a team of animators to ensure characters had unique animations while maintaining a cohesive style.

⦁ Animator for “Terminal B”(https://vimeo.com/139474526)

⦁ Animator for “Spaceman Spiff” (https://youtu.be/GWfLDkyHujw)

⦁ Animator for “Snatch” (https://vimeo.com/139473769)

⦁ Animator for “Drone Simulator” https://dronesimulator.wordpress.com/

Education: University of Texas at Dallas (2012 – 2016) Bachelors of Arts and Technology