Adam Oresten

Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League

• Led and managed the technical animation team, including mentoring, onboarding, and interviewing new hires
• Planned and scheduled technical animation work, providing estimates and tracking milestone deliverables
• Set the technical direction and standards for rigging and animation pipelines
• Served as the main technical animation contact for other departments and outsource partners
• Developed a non-destructive MotionBuilder animation export pipeline for complex scene workflows
• Maintained and expanded MotionBuilder scene management tools, including asset versioning and scene metadata packaging
• Built a universal retargeting tool for MotionBuilder, supporting animation transfer across custom and HIK rigs
• Implemented per-asset skeleton serialization and deserialization to speed up skinning and rigging processes
• Built facial accessory rigging toolkit based on a proxy mesh process to deliver high quality assets with minimal clipping against facial rigs
• Refactored complex facial rig skinning decomposition pipeline in under a month while improving processing speed by 20x
• Built an automated Metashape photogrammetry processing pipeline integrated with TeamCity
• Rigged and skinned numerous high-quality DC characters, including Harley Quinn and Captain Boomerang

DayZ

• Developed animation tools and defined pipelines for in-game and cinematic workflows
• Created and maintained the player animation state machine, regularly refining state behavior and blending
• Worked with animators, sound designers, and technical designers to identify workflow bottlenecks and build tools and processes to solve them
• Directed motion capture sessions for gameplay animation capture
• Built weapon rigs for a variety of firearms used in-game
• Produced gameplay animations through both motion capture data cleanup and keyframe animation

Vigor

• Led R&D efforts for character implementation workflows in engine
• Rigged and implemented character and weapon assets for gameplay and cinematics
• Researched and established workflows for cinematic trailer production