Virtual Production

AJ has worked in virtual production on several projects since 2014 beginning with Jungle Book. He has taken on many roles including:

Unreal Tools
Unreal Pipeline tools
Unreal Plugin Dev
Unreal stage ops
Unreal vCam tools
Unreal Project dev
VR experience
Talent Director (Sony R&D)
Unity (C#) tools
Unity/Mobu Stitching

Animation (UE/Maya)
Rigging (UE/Maya)
Groom (xGen/Blender)
Substance (painter/Designer)
Motion capture
Sequence coding and editing
Interactive coding
Particle/VFX (Niagara/Maya)

Game Development

Has worked on many games beginning in 2007 on several unreleased games before moving to VFX/Film for awhile. Has a strong passion for game development and continues to make indie games solo in spare time (see “Gate Break” tab for a game jam coded from scratch). In game dev AJ has been responsible for entire game projects with a primary focus on hand key animation and motion capture stitching.

Lead/Film Animation

Has been lead animator, responsible for junior, mid and senior level animators on Detective Pikachu, Sonic, Maleficent and Harold and Kumar. Senior animator on all others.

Television Animation

So many tv shows. So many commercials and music videos. Senior animator on most. Lead on Psych (yes, there was a nightmare episode in Psych that had a sink monster).