Chad Vernon                                                                  San Francisco, CA, USA

chadvernon@gmail.com                                                                                                                               

www.chadvernon.com

 

Employment as a technical director/rigger at an animation or visual effects studio that believes in the highest quality of work and that challenges my technical and artistic skills.

 

ImageMovers Digital                                                                                                                         Oct 2007 – Present               

Character Setup TD

        Projects: Yellow Submarine (look test), Mars Needs Moms, A Christmas Carol

§ Worked as part of a team responsible for designing and implementing custom deformation tools, technologies, and workflows to efficiently create dozens of rigs within a specified bid time.

§ Developed animation, rigging, and character finaling tools using C++, the Maya API, and Python.

§ Rigged several character assets and helped define the facial rigging pipeline to ensure high-quality deformations driven by motion capture and animation.

§ Wrote facial library tools to facilitate in the creation and maintenance of hundreds of face shapes and to allow more artistic iterations.

 

Ex’pression College for Digital Arts                                                                                         Sept 2006 – Oct 2007               

Student Services Assistant

§ Facilitated the Technical Direction classes.

§ Built and maintained the student community website with PHP and e107.

 

Callwave, Inc.                                                                                                                                  Mar 2004 – Aug 2004               

Web Development Intern

§ Trained to convert the company web site from ASP to ASP.NET.

§ Researched and integrated third party web applications into existing corporate website.

§ Wrote functional and design specifications for newly proposed web applications.

 

Programming Languages, Markup, and APIs

        C#, C++, C, Python, Java, MEL script, PHP, SQL, XML, (X)HTML, CSS

        Maya, DirectX, OpenGL

Software

                Maya, Mudbox, Modo, Silo, ZBrush, After Effects, Photoshop, Visual Studio

Ex’pression College for Digital Arts                                                                                                           2005 – 2007

B.A.S. in Animation and Visual Effects

Valedictorian

University of California, Santa Barbara                                                                                                    2001 – 2005

B.S. in Computer Science

Dean’s List, Engineering Honors Program