RESUME - PDF

Tyler Thornock
Lead Character TD
tthornock@gmail.com

May 10, 2011

Work Experience
Naughty Dog  
Senior Character TD January 2011 - Present
- Setup in-game and cinematic characters, including dynamics, cloth, blendshapes, weighting, and facial setups.
- Helped develop workflow for a swappable parts system for multiplayer and also weighted numerous meshes.
- Created and modified various tools to improve workflows.

Project:
Uncharted 3: Drakes Deception
Lucas Arts  
Character TD
March 2010 - November 2010

- Focused on multi-project and cross studio pipeline development of animation and rigging tools and various workflows.
- Created several tools using Python, Maya API, and PyQt.
- Developed skinning tools to allow quick iteration and polishing.
- Helped streamline and standardize the class and character creation process to minimize the time and effort needed for similar setups.
- Initial development and refactoring of facial tech. and engine driven support joints.

Project:
The Force Unleashed 2 DLC for PS3/XBox360
One Unannounced Title

Nihilistic Software  
Lead Character TD
March 2006 – March 2010

- Supervised and setup character and creature rigs.
- Setup in-game and cinematic facial setups, including blendshapes.
- Setup ragdoll and dynamics using Havok.
- Created and maintained a large array of tools for animation, rigging, and exporting designed to speed up and unify various parts of the pipeline, using MEL and Python.
- Helped manage the export of cinematic and game objects, including characters, props and equipment.
- Integrating motion capture into the pipeline using MotionBuilder and Maya.

Projects:
Conan for PS3/XBox360
Playstation Move Heroes for PS3
Zombie Apocalypse for PSN/XBox Live
Rachet and Clank for PS3 Home
God of War for PS3 Home
One Unannounced Title

BlueFish FX  
Character TD
November 2008

- Responsible for creating several character/zombie rigs under a tight deadline.
- Created character setup tools to keep rigs consistent and friendly.

Project:
Metallica music video "All Nightmare Long"

Software
Maya 5+
Motionbuilder 7.5
Havok
Mel Scripting
Python Scripting
Maya API
PyQt UIs
Unreal3
Adobe Photoshop
Education
Full Sail Real World Education
Winter Park, Florida
Associate of Science in Computer Animation
February 2006