Jasper Wu
Hayward,CA
Summary
Skilled 3D animator with over three years of experience, who excels in creating visually stunning animations with proficiency in rigging, keyframe animation, and motion capture. Demonstrates strong leadership skills by producing and directing animated projects.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Founder/Director/3D Animator
Cupencil Productions
Hayward, CA
03.2019 - Current
- Managed teams of 5 to 10 voice talent and animators providing direction, coaching, and incentives to complete projects on time and on budget
- Instructed and mentored team on use of rigging, material shader networks, technical animation, and 3D animation to improve workflow (saves team 5+ hours per week)
- Used Blender and Maya to model, optimize, texture, rig, and skin deform characters using integrated modifiers and shader nodes to meet project deadlines
- Utilized 3D plugins: ARP, Animation Layers, FBX import/exporter to produce photorealistic modeling and animation in a fraction of the time.
- Developed screenplays and world-build for over 10 youtube projects using Final Draft 12, including videos that received over 17,000 views
- Recruited talent with Casting Call Club and networking platforms, resulting in over 20 collaborators since 2019
- Developed and debugged Blender contour rendering plugins (with Python API) increasing efficiency of team by 15% and optimizing workflow with better documentation, training, and support
Creative Strategist/Technical Rigging Artist
Ernst and Young
02.2023 - 03.2023
- Design 3D character art to generate facial motion and lip sync using AI and gRPC protocol, gaining recognition by industry peers
- Managed pipeline integration for Nvidia Omniverse Audio2Face with Blender 3D, implementing a new standard for interactive facial animation in 3D applications that saved hundreds in development costs
Lead 3D Character Animator/VFX Artist (Unpaid)
Bentley Media Group
08.2022 - 09.2022
- Rigged and animated 3D Roblox avatar with inverse kinematics, and generated VFX (for animated film)
- Created lip-sync for 3D character to audio using custom shader network vector bit-maps to 20+ custom facial expressions in Blender (impressed client with lively results)
Data Science Intern (Unpaid)
Snapbrillia
San Francisco, CA
11.2021 - 01.2022
- Collaborated with AI team to design coding challenges compatible with R, Lua, SQLite, and Python using Javascript, helping to diversify candidates' skillsets and broaden the platform's appeal to a wider audience
Screenwriting Consultant
TCL Research America
08.2021 - 01.2022
- Drafted screenplays in coordination with the production team to match models and environments (reduced time for previsualization by 50%)
Education
Bachelor of Science - Data Science And Statistics
UC Santa Barbara
03.2023
Skills
- Proficient in Rigging, 3D Modeling, Technical Animation, and 3D Animation techniques
- Skilled in working with both key frame animation and motion capture data
- Familiarity with animation concepts, including layering, blending, and motion matching
- Expertise in cloth, hair, and muscle/skin dynamics systems
- Extensive knowledge of animation data and its movement through a runtime pipeline
- Proficient in animating a wide range of subjects, including bipedal and quadrupedal characters, as well as vehicles
Certification
Autodesk Maya Learning Path 20h, LinkedIn - 2023
- Maya 2023 Essentials Training, LinkedIn - 2023
- Maya & Arnold Architectural Materials, LinkedIn - 2023
- Maya Shader Networks, LinkedIn - 2023
- Maya: Render Setup System, LinkedIn - 2023
- Maya: Rendering in Arnold 6, LinkedIn - 2023
- Maya and Arnold: Exterior Lighting and Rendering, LinkedIn - 2023
- Maya and After Effects: Product Visualization, LinkedIn - 2023
Path Foundations of Video: The Art of Editing, LinkedIn - 2023
Game Character Creation With Maya & Unreal Engine 5 Modeling, Rigging, Animation & Blueprints, Skillshare - 2023
Blender 3 Essential Training, LinkedIn - 2022
Technologies
- Autodesk Maya
- Blender
- Houdini
- Unreal Engine
- Adobe Premiere Pro
- Adobe After Effects
- Adobe Photoshop
- Python
- MEL
- C++
- SQL
Timeline
Creative Strategist/Technical Rigging Artist
Ernst and Young
02.2023 - 03.2023
Lead 3D Character Animator/VFX Artist (Unpaid)
Bentley Media Group
08.2022 - 09.2022
Data Science Intern (Unpaid)
Snapbrillia
11.2021 - 01.2022
Screenwriting Consultant
TCL Research America
08.2021 - 01.2022
Founder/Director/3D Animator
Cupencil Productions
03.2019 - Current
Bachelor of Science - Data Science And Statistics
UC Santa Barbara
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