Robert Bardy's Work Experience - www.robertbardy.com








Motion Capture Artist m.Animation and retargeting in Motion Builder. Solve captured data and prep files for use in Motion Builder. Smackdown vs. Raw 08; Smackdown vs. Raw 09; WWE Legends; Time Shift;Golden Axe; Resident Evil 5; Uncharted 2; The Lord of the Rings: Conquest. Vicon – House of Moves – Los Angeles February 2007 - present PRIDE - Animation Supervisor / Lead Animator Supervise development of characters, models, animation techniques, target blendshapes for dramatic narrative BBC-TV production of talking lions; Animation lead for team of 6 animators; training and creative direction of animators’ work; develop production pipeline. 3D work done in Maya. Jim Henson’s Creature Shop — London, UK April - September 2003 Stuart Little 2 - Character Animator In Maya, animate lip sync, brows, eyes and facial expressions on talking cats, Snowbell and Monty. VES Award — In 2003, the Visual Effects Society recognized Stuart Little 2 for best character animation in an Animated Motion Picture. Sony Image Works — Los Angeles January - April 2002 Spy Kids 2 - Character Animator In Maya, full-body animation of skeleton characters, a la Ray Harryhausen’s Jason and the Argonauts. Computer Cafe — Santa Monica, CA May - July 2002 Men In Black II - Lighting TD Scripting, lighting, materials, texture painting and mapping for face and inside of mouth on talking animals. Rendering and final compositing. Rhythm & Hues — Los Angeles, CA April - May 2002 Dr. Doolittle 2 - Lighting TD Scripting, lighting, materials, texture painting and mapping for face and inside of mouth on talking animals. Rendering and final compositing. Rhythm & Hues — Los Angeles, CA January - June 2001 LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN - Tracking/Matchmoving In Maya, rig character and track to blue-suit Invisible Man character in snow cave shot. Computer Cafe — Santa Monica, CA December 2002 - March 2003 Miss Spider’s Tea Party - Animator Character animation for a children’s DVD from the popular children’s book. Callaway Editions — New York March – May 2005 JACK THE RIPSTER - Character Animator For Fox TV’s Sunday NFL football show: In Maya, facial animation for the character Jack the Ripster. Animate lip sync and facial expressions for 1-minute per week animation. Create and customize target blend shapes. Fox TV — New York, Los Angeles September-November 2003, September-October 2004 Independent Contractor - New York, NY November 2003 - November 2004 ˆ Character animation of batter, pitcher for ABC Little League World Series Betelgeuse Productions ˆ Animate, light, render dancing TV’s - USA Networks / NBC Trio cable network ˆ Animation, lighting, rendering of digital cameras for commercial Imaginary Forces - Olympus ˆ Brawny, Long John Silvers RIOT ˆ Panasonic camera Imaginary Forces ˆ OH! Cable Network Broadway Video ˆ Internal Video HP-Sprint Hewlett Packard/Compaq Commercial - Character Animator In Maya, rigging, weighting, animation (body and facial) on game-like characters for TVspot. Omaha Productions/Allied Arts and Science — Santa Monica, CA November 2002 - December 2002 YES DEAR - Character Animator Animation of nasal-spray-bottle-character in gag where the TV show character is addicted. MilneFX — Los Angeles, CA September 2002 Customer Support Engineer Support west coast client sites for SynaFlex and MatchMaker software. Directly involved in SynaFlex product re-design at Lowell, MA Corporate Headquarters. Product demos at SIGGRAPH. Provide product enhancement feedback to development engineers. SynaPix, Inc. — Santa Monica, CA May 1999 - January 2000 Cinesite - Los Angeles, CA July 1996 - June 1998 ˆ SPHERE - CG Sequence Supervisor, Character Animator Matchmove, light, texture, animate attacking jellyfish in SoftImage; successfully supervise and lead team of five animators. Smooth and effective coordination with 2D and Production departments. Excellent record of on-time delivery of high quality CG product. Softman/Renderman. ˆ SOFTIMAGE JELLYFISH TUTORIAL Create and implement fully detailed SoftImage Jellyfish Tutorial for in-house training purposes in Netscape Composer. This tutorial became the standard for future in-house tutorials at Cinesite. ˆ SIGGRAPH Presentation (Los Angeles Local) - “Creating and Integrating CG Jellyfish with Live Action Jellies” ˆ AIR FORCE ONE - Animator Modeling, lighting, matchmoving, animation and render CG cables for air rescue sequence in SoftImage. Test “dogfight” animation in Alias. Skills / Education UNIX, Windows, Maya, Motion Builder, Diva, Photoshop, Premiere. BS Computer Engineering — University of Michigan — Ann Arbor Excellent written and verbal communication skills.