Chad Briggs

About Chad Briggs

I create memorable narratives for games, films, and episodic content. Not only can I help you bang out crackerjack storytelling and narrative design, but I am equally at home setting up large creative and technical teams for success. I am intimately familiar with animation, gaming, and VFX pipelines having worked as an artist, writer, and creative director. Those skills have been put to good use crafting projects of all shapes and sizes, cultivating over a decade of wisdom from the trenches.My work has been featured in major industry publications such as Post Magazine, Computer Graphics World, Motionographer, and Shoot Magazine. I have also been trusted to tell the stories of some of the world\'s largest entertainment IPs and product brands.

Experience

1. Studio Creative Director

   Element X

   Apr 2004 — Present · Dallas-Fort Worth, TX, US

   Founded Element X to create compelling visual stories with universal appeal. Grew company from a solo endeavor to a team of 25 within two years, using no assistance of outside investment or capital. Wrote and directed narratives that utilized animation, VFX, and gaming in service of the largest entertainment IPs and product brands in the world. My work with the company has been featured in major industry publications such as Post Magazine, Computer Graphics World, Motionographer, and Shoot Magazine. Highlights include:• Writer of Stop. Watch. Love, an award-winning short film that also placed in top 50 out of entries in Ridley Scott\'s Your Film Festival. • Creative Director of \"Pancakes\" an award-winning short film set in the Hellboy universe. • Creative Director over incoming outsource work from game studios such as Zynga, BonusXP, Playful, and Bigpoint GmbH achieving preferred vendor status. • Writer and Creative Director of Chili\'s Stadium, a popular internationally launched augmented reality World Cup soccer game created for Chili\'s restaurants. One of the first cross-platform multiplayer AR games on the market.• Creative Director on National Geographic\'s first foray into Web3D/VR training games for their scripted programs, which include Mars, Einstein, Savage Kingdom, and Big Cats. • Creative Director and Story Development for animated kids TV show “Bowloplis”.• Creative Director on award-winning Innovation Room, a large format interactive experience for HP Enterprise Services driven by Unity3D.• Creative Director of numerous Telly award-winning commercial broadcast spots.I helped design and supervise a strong vision for the company hardware/software infrastructure, eliminating as many creative roadblocks as possible from our development process. Sold the company in 2015, but stayed on in SCD role.

Education

• Art Institute of Dallas

  AAS, Computer Animation

  1998 — 1999

• Monmouth College

  BA, Computer Science

  1994 — 1998

Skills

• After Effects
• Motion Graphics
• Video Post-Production
• Film Production
• Zbrush
• Cinema 4d
• Special Effects
• Post Production
• Video Games
• Feature Films
• Softimage
• Graphics
• Multimedia
• Film
• Video Production
• Lighting
• Rigging
• Video Editing
• Premiere
• Mel
• Adobe Premiere Pro
• Javascript
• Storyboarding
• Project Management
• Compositing
• Video
• Nuke
• Maya
• Unreal Engine 4
• Unity3d
• Illustration
• Mental Ray
• Computer Graphics
• 2d Animation
• Python
• Webgl
• R&D
• Character Animation
• Shaders
• Traditional Animation