AWS - Amazon Deadline Cloud & Nimble Studio

Web Development and CI/CD

Working with our product, UX and management team, we were able to construct a customer-friendly onboarding experience allowing users to setup a Deadline render server in the cloud.

This involved designing, creating and maintaining a secure, scalable deployment of the service admin console and artist monitor applications. This includes integrating and maintaining a full CI/CD pipeline, metrics, alarms, dashboards, E2E tests and canaries.

Using both clearly defined guidelines set by AWS, and balancing with the needs of our target customers -- we worked closely with our UX team to polish and execute their Figma mocks into a fully function application.

https://aws.amazon.com/deadline-cloud/
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-nimble-studio-build-a-creative-studio-in-the-cloud/

RGB Notes & Nimble Collective

Animation Review Software

My development involved the design and creation of browser-based software featuring video review tools, including advanced sketch over and key-framing options. This leveraged technologies such as the browsers Audio, Video and Canvas APIs

Amazon Nimble Studio Offers Animators a Home in the Cloud
Nimble Collective extends enterprise class animation platform acquisition RGB Notes

Blue Sky Studios

Tool Development

I had the pleasure of joining the Blue Sky team to build some Maya tools for the animation department. Listed below are some of the tool I built during my short stay.

Tween	Set in-between keys for your selected controls. Realtime pose settings, and stable Undo stack.
Transposer	Record, edit and reapply character animation in worldspace with ease.
SimpleSnap	Record, edit and reapply picked objects' worldspace animation with ease.
ShapeFixer	Add and manipulate animator-created blendshapes on rig-deformed characters

Rhythm & Hues Studios

Character/Rig Development

Alvin and the Chipmunks - Alvin, Simon, Theodore (facial rigging)
Life of Pi - Tiger, Hyena, Zebra, Orangutan (facial rigging)
Maramaduke - Surfing ocean wave rig

Tool Development

While a lead animator at Rhythm & Hues, I found time to write and support 20+ widely used tools for Voodoo, their amazing, proprietary animation software. Listed below are some of the favorites.

COG	Record, edit and reapply character animation in worldspace with ease.
Snap	Record, edit and reapply a single object's worldspace animation with ease.
Tweener	Set in-between keys for your selected controls.
Buddies	Establish temporary, animatable spacial relationships between objects.
Control Tower	Quickly select, edit, display and run commands on many characters at once.
Path Tools	Simple tools for building and editing complex character paths.