Greg Wellwood

Senior Animator of Facial Motion Capture @美国艺电公司

Burnaby, BC, CA
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WORK HISTORY

Apr 2011 — Present

Senior Animator of Facial Motion Capture @美国艺电公司

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Burnaby, BC, CA

Faceware: Co-creation of the Facial Capture Pipeline. Working closely with the software developers and EA’s internal Tools Support team to create functionality to achieve a heavily automated pipeline. Working closely with clients to achieve the visual targets; and training our internal team to reach the visual targets.• FACS: Gained an understanding of the FACS methodology, as our next-gen rigs and pipelines are geared to a FACS based solution, creating a suitable FACS-ROM and MarkerSet for best practice for automation.• Rigging: Work closely with the Rigging department, providing feedback on client rigs and functionality.• DI4D: Resurfacing of a 4D sequence to create a uniform topology, the merging of 4D-Facial and a 3D-Scanned head to the Body performance; overseeing of the animation and compositing teams. Co-creation of a secondary post 4D process for geometry-cache stabilizing, filtering, and animation/augmentation.• Clients: Working with clients during the preproduction process, to the delivery of final production data; setting visual targets and preferred delivery formats. Providing rig reviews to ensure best results are achieved; providing auto-pre-viz pass data to help expedite post-shoot editorial and ordering needs.• Resourcing: Resourcing of internal staff to achieve delivery dates; hiring of new staff to fill temporary positions during larger scope projects, and data wrangling and feedback to and from our external vendors.

EDUCATION

1998 — 1999

RRC Polytech

Certificate, Computer Animation Specialist

1995 — 1997

The University of Winnipeg

Sociology

SKILLS

BladeCompositor3dAnimationFacewareDimensional ImagingGame DevelopmentModelerAutodesk MotionbuilderMotion CaptureMayaCharacter AnimationComputer AnimationComputer GraphicsVideo Games

ABOUT GREG WELLWOOD

Senior Animator and Team Lead for the EA-Capture Motion Capture Department.• Co-created a team that is considered as one of the worlds most advanced Faceware users, by Faceware.• Pipeline developer for Facial Capture workflows, both Feature-Detection and 4D based.• Works closely with both Clients and External Vendors to ensure visual targets and deliverables are met.• Works closely with internal Rigging and Animation departments, helping to ensure smooth handoffs.• Team manager with direct reports ranging from 2-10 staff, often managing multiple projects at once.• FACS trained by FACS expert Erika Rosenberg.• 20+ years of production experience.Notable Film Credits:• Tron Legacy • X-Men2Notable Game Credits:• Need For Speed (2022) • Need For Speed: Heat • Star Wars Battlefront II • Mirror\'s Edge Catalyst • Madden Longshot 1,2 • Battlefield 3 • Mass Effect 2,3,4 • Dragon Age 1,2,3 • Dead Space 1 • Army Of Two 1,2 • Kingdoms Of Amalur • Skate1 • James Bond: Everything Or NothingSoftware Skills:• Autodesk Maya • FaceWare Analyzer & Retargeter • Dimensional Imaging 3D & 4D• Adobe Photoshop, After Effects • Vicon Blade • Autodesk 3D Studio Max• Autodesk Motion Builder • Digidesign ProTools • Shotgrid

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