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Tyler Thornock
Lead Character TD
tthornock@gmail.com

October 24th, 2009
Work Experience
Nihilistic Software
Lead Character TD  
March 2006 – Present

- 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
Zombie Apocalypse for PSN/XBox Live
Rachet and Clank for PS3 Home
Two Unannounced Titles

BlueFish FX
Character TD  
November 2008

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

Project:
Metallica music video "All Nightmare Long"

Songbird Management Inc.  
Modeler/Setup Artist  
February 2006 - March 2006

- Modeled and rigged several characters used for a proof of concept.
- Created joint and blendshape facial setups.

Project:
Unannounced

Full Sail Real World Education  
Internship  
February 2006 – March 2006

- Worked on expanding knowledge of muscle systems, dynamics, simulations, and more organized rigging along with creating basic setup tools.

Software
Alias/Autodesk Maya 5+
Alias Motionbuilder
Havok

Mel Scripting
Python Scripting
Adobe Photoshop

 
Education
Full Sail Real World Education  
Winter Park, Florida
Associate of Science in Computer Animation
February 2006

Awards:
Advanced Achiever - Most likely to Achieve

Course Director's Awards:
Character Rigging
Character Modeling
Computer Animation Project
Demo Reel Creation.