Delano Athias
Los Angeles,CA
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
Work History
Animator
JAMM
03.2025 - 04.2025
- Animated assets ahead of of schedule, under a tight time restriction. Upon finishing early, I also assisted with fixing and maintained third-party rigs, saving the company roughly $10k.
Rigging TD / Layout Artist
Paramount
10.2022 - 01.2025
- Built Python-based rigging and animation tools for the layout and art departments...
- Created a joint-based, engine-friendly auto-rig for face and body...
- Was able to deliver a full rig, with facial control in 1 day, whereas the previous rigging solution took up to a month...
- Created a mocap workflow that leveraged MoveAI (mobile) and/or Xsens, allowing artists to shoot reference, generate an FBX, and quickly transfer the performance to a retarget rig that would then, procedurally, save the animation to an Animation Library...
- Saved the studio over $100k in the time I was contracted.
- Transformers One / TMNT 2
Rigging Instructor
Gnomon
01.2020 - 01.2024
- Created skill-based training for digital artists.
Rigging TD
Visual Creatures
11.2023 - 08.2024
- Built rigging and animation tools (Maya to Unreal)...
- Created a retargeting workflow from the mocap stage to Maya, for cleanup, then to Unreal for rendering...
- Rigged/animated with Control Rig in UE...
- Previs'd and animated to final shots...
- Worked in the CFX department (cloth, soft body secondary motion, etc...)
- Managed outsourcing in the rigging department.
- Created a system to quickly rig a bulk of assets in a fraction of time.
- Saved the studio apprx. $170k.
- Love, Death, and Robots vol. 4
Rigging Artist
Apple
06.2021 - 09.2022
- Worked in the rigging department updating auto-rigs for assets.
Senior Animator & Previs Artist / Technical Artist
Digital Domain
01.2016 - 01.2019
- Animated a large variety of combat animation for the Animation Library...
- Animated crowds...
- Built animation tools to quickly plot crowd agents across a terrain for the animation team.
- Simmed rigid body destruction.
- Was a co-developer in the facial-tracking department, tasked with building a system to expedite the processing of tracking data from performance capture sessions.
- Worked in the Previs department, which involved creating shots, rigging assets, and simming rigid body destruction to improve the quality of our Previs demonstrations.
- Deadpool, Spider-man:No Way Home, Ready Player One, She-Hulk, The Last of Us, Black Panther 2.
Lead Animator / Rigger
Zoic Studios
01.2017 - 01.2022
- Rigged and animated assets...
- Built rigging and animation tools allowing animation tasks to often deliver ahead of schedule...
- Cloth & skin simulation using Houdini and Maya...
- Previs'd shots between Houdini and Maya.
Senior Rigging Artist
Method Studios
05.2019 - 02.2020
- Worked in the AR and VR departments, across Unity and Unreal, rigging and animating assets in a timely manner.
Animation/Rigging Supervisor
Kevin VFX
01.2017 - 01.2018
- Built rigging, animation and lighting tools for exporting assets in a shot context from Maya...
- Animated shots...
- Worked on rigid body sims with Houdini.
Animator/Rigger
The Mill
07.2017 - 02.2018
- Rigged and animated creatures and assets...
- Repurposed and maintained out-of-date rigs.
Animator
Smashball Labs
03.2008 - 02.2009
- Rigged and animated assets for an indie game.
Animator
TKO Software
06.2005 - 07.2006
- Rigged and animated assets for games.
Education
Computer Graphics
Full Sail University
Winter Park, FL07.2004
Skills
- Maya
- Python
- MEL
- CFX
- 3ds Max
- Softimage
- CINEMA 4D
- MODO
- MotionBuilder
- Houdini
- Blender
- Unreal Engine
Timeline
Animator
JAMM
03.2025 - 04.2025
Rigging TD
Visual Creatures
11.2023 - 08.2024
Rigging TD / Layout Artist
Paramount
10.2022 - 01.2025
Rigging Artist
Apple
06.2021 - 09.2022
Rigging Instructor
Gnomon
01.2020 - 01.2024
Senior Rigging Artist
Method Studios
05.2019 - 02.2020
Animator/Rigger
The Mill
07.2017 - 02.2018
Lead Animator / Rigger
Zoic Studios
01.2017 - 01.2022
Animation/Rigging Supervisor
Kevin VFX
01.2017 - 01.2018
Senior Animator & Previs Artist / Technical Artist
Digital Domain
01.2016 - 01.2019
Animator
Smashball Labs
03.2008 - 02.2009
Animator
TKO Software
06.2005 - 07.2006
Computer Graphics
Full Sail University
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