SHONA GILLARD
San Francisco, CA | sjgillard93@gmail.com | sjgillard.com | www.linkedin.com/in/sjgillard| 214-601-5245
JOB EXPERIENCE
Technical Assistant
Industrial Light & Magic
2016 to Current
- Manage the render farm and priorities
- Maintain farm tools
- Development projects for new tools and statistics
Technical Artist Intern
Disney Interactive Star Wars: Commander Project
2015 to 2016
- Creating/writing art support tools (Maya/Python)
- Adding additional tool support to production pipeline
- Updating and maintaining the Star Wars: Commander Asset Database (MongoDB)
- Creating and debugging of characters and unit rigs
- Creation of animation state controllers (Unity)
- Investigating asset bugs and providing possible solutions
- Learning from industry professionals
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SKILLS & ABILITIES
3D and Technical Skills 2011-Present
- Scripting: MEL, Python, and C#
- Programming: Java
- Windows, Linux, and Mac
- 3D:
- nDynamic simulations in Autodesk Maya
- Biped and Quadruped rigging
- Facial rigging
- Squash and stretch rigging
- pyMel/Python Maya tools
- 3D modeling
Relevant Program Experience 2010-Present
- Autodesk Maya 2010-14
- Houdini 12
- Autodesk Mudbox 2011-2014
- Adobe Photoshop CS 5 and CS 6
- Unity 4.x
- RoboMongo/MongoDB
- Oracle database
Leadership Experience
- President of the UT Dallas Animation Guild
- Responsibilities: event planning, advertising, networking, and assist with needs of students studying 3D animation
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EDUCATION
Bachelors of Arts in Arts and Technology
University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson
Graduated May 2015
- Related Coursework:
- Game Production Lab: Industry simulation course at the University of Texas at Dallas in which student teams take a semester to make a video game.
- Animation Production Studio: Industry simulation course at the University of Texas at Dallas in which a student team takes two semesters to make an animated short.
Rigging Courses: Courses designed to teach the fundamentals of rigging concepts and techniques.
Rigging Dojo:
- Scripting 101: Production focused training with lectures, critiques and group learning