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**TALES OF KENZERA: ZAU (2024)**
I was the studio lead for the animation, tech-art and VFX teams, whom I looked after in a managerial and directorial capacity.
I was on the project from pre-production through to post-launch support and worked closely with production and the rest of leadership to effectively manage my teams schedule and deliver quality results.

My main animation achievements on this project include:

Traversal, combat and ability animations for the main character as well as some of the NPC’s, bosses and enemies (supporting advanced AI and behaviour).
Technical implementation and engine-side finalising of assets in Unreal.
Cinematic direction and work within Unreal’s Sequencer, including animating directly in engine, some VFX creation & placement, and tech setup to facilitate player input where required.

**Sackboy: A Big Adventure (2020)**

I was responsible for development and implementation of Sackboy's animation systems, including core traversal, combat and previsualisation of experimental features that would need to be coded dynamically (such as how Sackboy prioritises looking at areas of interest, and how much head wobble to use).
I also worked on a few enemies and NPCs, and developed GPU driven shaders to animate simple enemies or world objects via material shaders.
Animations were authored in Maya and implemented in Unreal Engine 4.

**SPYDER (2020)**

I assisted in the creation of the animation style guide and was ultimately responsible for all character and cutscene animation in the game.
Character studies and previsualisation renders were extremely important early on to define the look and feel of the main character, Agent 8, and how the player interacted with the world.
I needed to ensure animation systems were extremely responsive and flowed well between each other.
I was the only animator for most of the project but had a great opportunity to mentor a junior animator during development.
Animations were authored in Maya and implemented in Unreal Engine 4.

The animation systems involved on this project are among the most complicated I have ever helped create. However, working alongside the incredible programming team, we came up with some fantastic solutions.

If you’re interested in diving in to the fine details, a couple of our programmers wrote - a great document - about it!

Tangled Emotions

I crafted a set of emotional states for Agent 8 that were designed to flow smoothly to and from any other behaviour whilst simultaneously supporting additive animation sets like the gadgets that pop out of Agent 8’s hatches as well as the complex IK setup which needed to allow player traversal on and around any surface in the game and at any angle.