Resume’
Ted Warnock
21820 NE 22nd Street, Sammamish, WA 98074
tedwarnock_at_hotmail_dot_com
www.tedwarnock.com
www.tedwarnock.blogspot.com
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Objective:
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Lead or Senior Animation position
Professional Experience:
Flying Lab Software: 2010 -Current
* 3D Key frame and 2D Flash animation
* Worked directly with external publisher’s art director to realize animation vision
* Successfully collaborated with system designers and game play programmers
*Maya, 3DS Max, Flash, Jira, Proprietary
- Age of Empires Online (Contracted with Gas Powered Games through Flying Lab)
- Harry Potter for Facebook (unpublished) – Lead Animator
- Bakugan: Gundalian Invaders– Senior/Lead Animator
- Pirates of the Burning Seas – Senior Animator (contributed)
Sega Studios: 2009 –2010
* Lead animator on Iron Man 2 for Xbox 360 and PS3
* Responsibilities included managing the character animation department (5 animators)
* Successfully collaborated with system designers and game play programmers
* 3D Key frame animation
* Defined the projects animation style
* Quality assurance of all game animation
* Created and maintained the animation schedule, while coordinating with other departments
* Maya, Havok Behavior, Jira, Proprietary
*Ironman 2 – Lead Animator
WB Games / Monolith Productions: 2004 – 2009
* Responsibilities included character and creature behavior design
while working directly with designers and programmers
* Animation Lead on several mission based strike teams
* Worked with both motion capture and key frame animation
* Primary motion capture actor/director for character and creature motion
* Managed and worked directly in our proprietary animation database
* Coordinated with our Associate Producer to maintain schedule
* Character model weighting
* Maya, Jira, Proprietary
- FEAR 2 – Senior Animator, Mission Lead Animator
- Condemned 2 – Senior Animator (contributed)
- Condemned Criminal Origins – Senior Animator (contributed)
- Matrix Online MMO – Senior Animator
Atari / Legend Entertainment: 2000 – 2004
* Responsibilities included creature behavior design while working directly with
designers and AI programmers
* Storyboarded, directed and implemented cinematics using the Unreal 2 Matinee tool
while directing small external art staff
* Key frame animation
* 3DS Max, Unreal Ed
- Unreal 2 – Senior Creature Animator; Cinematic Director
- Unreal 2 XMP – Senior Character Animator
Kronos Digital Entertainment: 1995 – 2000
* Responsibilities included character and creature behavior design while working directly with
lead designer and AI programmers
* Directed animation for both game and cinematic animation
* Worked with both motion capture and key frame animation
* Primary motion capture actor/director for character and creature motion
* Managed and worked directly in our proprietary animation database
* Coordinated with our Associate Producer to maintain schedule
*Power Animator/ Maya, Proprietary
- Fear Effect – Animation Director/animator
- Dark Rift – Lead Animator
- Fear Effect 2 – Senior Animator (was Animation Director but had to leave the project early due to family matters. The lead animator, Francis Co, finished it.)
- Cardinal Syn – Senior Animator (contributed)
Alexandria Games 1992 – 1995
* Art directed and Animation directed the project’s art staff of 3 +; managed outside vendors
* AI behavior design while working directly with designers and AI programmers
* Traditional 2D hand drawn animation, DPaint Animator
- Sylvester and Tweety in Cagey Capers – Art Director / Lead 2D Animator
- Demolition Man – 2D Animator
Hollywood Cartoons 1991 – 1992
* Hollywood Cartoons was a second unit animation studio to Hanna Barbera Studios to
produce 60% of the feature film “PAGEMASTER”
* Animated on internal pilot projects
* Traditional hand drawn character and assistant animator
Education:
Columbus College of Art and Design – BFA with honors
CalArts – Locomotion and analysis, continuing studies
American Animation Institute – traditional animation, storyboarding, life drawing,
continuing studies
MFA PAC Board Member: Digipen
Awards:
Society of Illustrators, New York–Starr foundation award Scholastic Competition
Illustrators Club of Metropolitan Washington–Honorable Mention “1st One Show”
