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








Motion Builder / Maya Animator On the Black Eyed Peas music video, "Boom Boom Pow", choreograph and animate motion capture data in Motion Builder and Maya, creating 'pods' of dancers, matching dance moves to music beats and to the band members. Director, Mathew Cullen (who recently earned a Grammy Award for Weezer's "Pork and Beans"). Motion Theory - Venice, CA March-April 2009 Motion Builder Instructor Train a 9-member team of new animators in Motion Builder to edit and animate motion capture data. Developed comprehensive training plan in advance with measurable goals intended to develop all required skills. Emphasis on skill building, teamwork, communication and intuition building for future skills development. This was Animation Vertigo's first foray into Motion Builder and animation. Most of the animators had no prior animation experience. The team successfully reached their goals and is now producing high quality work under heavy schedule demands. Animation Vertigo - Manila, The Philippines October 2008 - January 2009 Motion Capture Artist Animation and retargeting in Motion Builder. Solve captured data and prep files in Diva 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 - September 2008 Character Animator Responsible for concept development and animation director on a series of commericials for the Australian market using facial animation to bring to life a car, a couch, a washing machine. Oktobor - Aukland, NZ February - August 2006 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. 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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/Linux, Windows, Mac, Maya, Motion Builder, Diva, Photoshop, Premiere. BS Computer Engineering — University of Michigan — Ann Arbor Excellent written and verbal communication skills.