Sascha Kremers

Experience

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  DerDesignPool

  Jan 2007 - Jan 2008

  3D Artist
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  Box

  Jan 2009 - Nov 2011

  Character Technical Director (Freelancer)

  - Rigging Quadruped, Biped, Mechanical, Bird characters.- Writing Python Maya tools to support animators in their daily workflow.- Wrote a Modular Rigsystem (Python).- Mocap pipeline

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  Yager Development

  Jan 2011 - Jul 2012

  Technical Animation

  - Rigging Quadruped, Biped, Mechanical, Bird characters.- Defining a new Rigging Pipeline.- Wrote a Modular Rigsystem (Python).- Mocap import to Maya pipeline (Python).- Writing Python Maya tools to support animators in their daily workflow.- Writing Python MotionBuilder scripts.- Supporting the Pipeline Dev Team in their tasks.- Creation and Implementation of Matinees in Unreal for Cutscene setup.- Animation Import, Export Maya to Unreal.

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  Trixter

  Jul 2012 - Dec 2014

  Maintaining and extending the in-house animation pipeline.In my time as Animation TD we cleaned up old tools and wrote a big part of the new animation pipeline at trixter using PySide, Python and C++Tools included:- scene manager (scene-setup, open/publish scene)- asset manager (open/publish assets- mirror animation- poselibrary for storing and applying animation poses- character picker for quick selecting certain parts of the character (divided into body/face/extra) - ghosting tool- batch tool for automising tasks like scene setup, export alembics, creating playblastsand many more small tools to help animators in their daily life Show less

  • Rigging Department Lead

    May 2014 - Dec 2014

  • Animation Technical Director

    Jan 2013 - May 2014

  • Rigging Technical Director

    Jul 2012 - Jan 2013
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  Optix Hamburg

  Jul 2014 - Jul 2014

  Rigger (Freelancer)

  Commercial project: 8x4

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  Sony Pictures Imageworks

  Nov 2014 - Oct 2016

  Senior Character TD
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  ScanlineVFX

  Sept 2016 - Sept 2018

  Software Engineer
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  Studio Isar Animation

  Sept 2018 - now

  Head Of Pipeline