Enrique Caballero

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EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

ANIMAL LOGIC – Sydney, Australia

October 2006 – Present

Character Modeler : Where the Wild Things Are (Warner Bros)

·  Modeled the main character "Carol" for Spike Jonze's upcoming film. Responsibilities also included UV set creation and rigging consultation.

July 2005 – September 2006

Character FX Technical Director : Happy Feet (Warner Bros)

·  Sequence Lead on the largest character-related FX sequence, creating shots and supervising the effects team.

·  Handled all skin simulation, and environment dynamics simulation for character-related geometry.

·  Created additional key-framed animation to enhance the simulation quality for the hero characters.

·  Consultant for the development of the proprietary tools used throughout the production.

·  Instrumental in the development of the character physics workflow for the TD department.

·  Responsible initially for rigging the main characters in 2005, after completion moved to Character FX duties.

XSI Trainer : Animation Department, Happy Feet (Warner Bros)

·  Selected in 2006 to conduct regular training sessions with the new Animators on XSI Animation tools, and the proprietary tools used in the Animal Logic Animation pipeline.

BABYFOOT PRODUCTIONS – Sydney, Australia

November 2004 – June 2005

Modeler : Television commercials – Various (Cadbury Chocolates , Expedia.co.uk etc)

·  Character modeling, surfacing, and set-piece creation, as well as coordinating a team of artists on the production of the commercial’s visual assets.

Rigger/ Animator/ Modeler/ Surfacer : Music video - Unwritten

·  Animated, rigged and surfaced the main character in the music video for UK recording artist Natasha Bedingfield.

FREELANCE WORK – Los Angeles, USA

2004

Modeler/ Surfacer/ Rigger

·  Rigged several characters for Psyop Studios, for a Nike television commercial and six 60 sec movie trailers.

·  Rigged and modeled a figureskater for a TV intro and commercial for ABC Sports (American Broadcasting Co).

·  Modeled and surfaced several characters for Savage: A Tortured Soul, a videogame for S2Games.

·  Modeled, UVed, and surfaced several car models for Sylum Entertainment.

Modeler : Karaoke Revolution 4 (Harmonix Studios and Liquid Development)

·  Modeled and surfaced several of the main characters for this critically-acclaimed series of video games.

2003

Modeler/ Surfacer/ Rigger/ Animator

·  Modeled and surfaced for Savage: The Battle for Newerth, an award-winning video game, by S2Games.

·  Modeled and surfaced elements for a tv show intro and commercial for Discovery Channel's Women in the Wild.

·  Designed, rigged, modeled and surfaced box art and advertising media for Boomer Labs / Digimation.

·  Modeled, rigged, and surfaced several cinematic characters for The Hit.

Enrique Caballero

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FREELANCE WORK – Los Angeles, USA (Continued)

2002

Modeler/ Surfacer/ Lighter/ Rigger/ Animator

·  Modeled, rigged, lit, and animated the promotional demo for Boomer Labs’ 3dsmax plug-in, Sound Trax, for display by Digimation, the world’s leading developer and publisher of plug-ins for 3dsmax, at Siggraph 2002.

Technical Consultant

·  Technical consultant for Morgan Kaufmann Publishing, helping develop the theoretical content of their Maya book series, including: Complete Maya Programming and Mel Scripting for Maya Animators.

SOFTWARE SKILLS

Autodesk Maya, Autodesk 3D Studio Max, SoftImage XSI, Character Studio, Digital Fusion, Adobe Photoshop, Corel Painter, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Pixelogic ZBrush

REFERENCES

Daniel Jeanette
Animation Director – Happy Feet (Warner Bros)
Email: / Scott Swan
Animation Supervisor– Happy Feet (Warner Bros)
Email:
David Bennett
Motion Capture Lead – Weta Digital
Email: / David Schulman
President of Sylum Entertainment
Email:
Michael Gracey
Director of Babyfoot Productions
Email: / Torbjorn Olsson
VFX Supervisor at Frantic Film
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