Laura Hill

• Research and development focusing on creating and improving technical art pipelines for digital humans.
• Collaborated with artists and software engineers, defining project goals, communicating technical considerations, resource management, defining features, and timelines.
• Created procedural 3D models, animation, and created automation of pipelines to meet design goals.
• Established and maintained productive, professional working relationships to promote beneficial project results.

• First Senior Technical Artist for Scale AI, second hire for Synthetics at Scale's EPD team.
• Upon hire immediately started creating pipelines to address internal and external needs and asks.
• On any given day was 3D modeling on Maya, making procedural assets in Substance, generating datasets in Unity, interviewing, writing pipeline proposals, attending internal and external client meetings, troubleshooting, and innovating.
• Created a procedural material series that helped enable the detection of vehicle damage with AR, and started internal's library of procedural assets for future projects.
• Facilitated obtaining three partnership/collaborations within the first three months of hire, including Synthetics' first paid client.
• Made demos, reached out to clients, (on the ML and tech. art side), established new pipelines to improve dataset accuracy.
• Provided expert guidance on all digital human related projects and pipelines.

• Contributed to the creation of new 3D art and technical pipelines for human character development; within AI and ML, (Synthetic Arts).
• Combined technical and artistic abilities to bridge the gap among art and engineering teammates.
• Key contributor to at least one of Unity's future packages, vital to their machine learning products.
• Researched independently, presented data findings, proposed important pipeline tasks and changes, documented processes, collaborated and trained new junior employees whenever possible.

3D and Technical Artist focused on full character pipeline development. Microsoft Cognition, Synthetic Arts.

• Successfully accomplished the creation and implementation of new 3D art modeling and rigging techniques for AI and ML industries.
• Used Maya, Zbrush, Photoshop, Substance, and Houdini as needed for 3D character and other asset production.

• 3D modeling and sculpting of heads, faces, and blendshapes
• Created the new 50th, 95th, and 5th percentile head templates for Oculus Product Design Engineering
• Collected photogrammetry data for Facebook/Oculus. Verified 3D model data integrity and accuracy. Cleaned and aligned scans as needed
• Character and custom rigging in Maya
• Researched creative solutions to expedite workflow in Rhino, and provided pipeline feedback and suggestions
• Created tools using Python, MEL, or Rhino's visual scripting tool:
• Grasshopper algorithm that reduced time spent in head alignment
• Modified a sculpting tool for Maya, created a tool for a custom rig
• Created a script for automatic import of csv data as locators or particles to Maya

• Character and creature full pipeline development. Art direction, training, project management.
• Concept art, 3D modeling, rigging, texturing, and animation.
• Created innovative rigging and 3D modeling techniques to expedite workflow.
• Developed procedural techniques within a Maya, Zbrush, Substance, Unity pipeline. My research and testing, led to a successful proof of concept, and game engine implementation.
• Helped define the art style and aesthetics for the game “Kindred” - an Indie Action/RPG.