Tony Zeffiro

WORK HISTORY

SKILLS

ABOUT TONY ZEFFIRO

My first job out of college I began as a key frame animator and developed into a lead character animator involving modeling the main characters, rigging, texturing, facial animation, and key frame animation using 3D Studio Max and Character Studio. A team of 6 animators for about a year, and then just myself and the Creative Director for the last 6 months, created a one hour Christmas special-My next role was Animator at Midway Games focusing mostly on sports titles. Eventually I worked on other titles including Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance(MK5). From there I became Lead Animator on the Mortal Kombat and Injustice franchises from 20••••20. My responsibilities included managing and mentoring a team of animators, directing motion capture sessions, managing, reviewing, and providing feedback to internal animators as well as multiple outsourcing companies and animators. Animating content myself was also a main focus. Specialties: Managing and mentoring, Design, Directing, Key frame animation, motion capture clean up and animation-I rmoved out of the Lead managerial role, laterally to the individual contributor branch as an Advanced Animator. This allowed me more time grow my animation skills, continue to be involved with implementation, and more time to discover and learn new technology-In a crazy Covid year, the team continued to be productive and I was able to advance my role to Senior Advanced Animator.