Christian Santori

• Spearheaded the conceptualization, design, and deployment of an innovative rigging pipeline, seamlessly integrating real-time interactivity with high-end rendering compatibility, thereby driving creative and operational excellence across the project lifecycle.
• Orchestrated the end-to-end rigging pipeline, leveraging advanced scripting techniques to automate complex workflows, enhance scalability, and ensure quality assurance, all while providing strategic oversight to a multi-disciplinary team of rigging experts.

• Pioneered the development of a cutting-edge, FACS-based rigging pipeline tailored specifically for Unreal Engine 5 compatibility, setting a new industry standard for high-fidelity, real-time character animation and performance.
• Served as the Rigging Supervisor for an Emmy Award-winning television series, leading a high-caliber rigging team of two experts. I engineered a groundbreaking pipeline that revolutionized character deployment, enabling the production of industry-leading quality characters in an astonishing 48-hour window.

• Create new Character rigs for the whole game replacing countless old ones while using systems to transfer over 85% of the animation to the new rigs.

• Implement runtime retargeting for multiple sets of characters that will share animation.

• Provide tools for animators to be more efficient and add features to rigs.

• Create and implement a rigging system and pipeline for rigging High Quality Film Characters via work from home environments.

• Create a workflow for animators to have their environments set up with proprietary custom tools and scripts from their personal computers with one click bat files.

• Rig Characters for Production

• Combined technical and artistic abilities to accomplish challenging animation objectives.
• Set up a pipeline for the Animation department to efficiently manage the rigging, modeling, and animation.
• Rig and setup Characters and vehicles in Unreal Engine.

• Develop character and prop rigs along with new techniques to help increase the quality, while meeting production deadline
• Help create a rigging system to make the rigging process more modular and efficient
• Work closely with modeling to create a model that meets the rigging technical requirement
• Create animation trees and systems for in-game usage
• Design, deploy and maintain animation tools, workflows, and pipelines to improve production efficiency
• Help ensure all rigs complied to the needs of the animation, character effects and other departments. Items include level of detail, number of blendshapes, joints, textures, and resolution