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Animation

Animation Showreel (2007-2012)

This period of my career on the Uncharted series (Playstation 3) marked a big shift into much more grounded and realistic style of animation. Animation became more than just working with a mouse and computer. It now involved directing actors and athletes on a motion capture stage, working with a much larger team of animators, as well as learning to animate with a much higher degree of fidelity and realism such that keyframed animation and real human performances became seamlessly interwoven.

The focus of my work has centered on interactive animation which is one of the most complex and difficult disciplines to master. Interactive animation is far too often under appreciated and underdeveloped within the animation industry. It has become my passion to raise the bar of interactive animation as a respected form of art.

Animation Showreel (1999-2006)

This video is a compilation of character animations done between 1999 and 2006, including projects featured at the Hershey theme park attraction in Pennsylvania, as well as Jak II and Jak 3 for Playstation 2. I always look back fondly on this period of animation when the process was more light-hearted and pure in its art form.

VFX Showreel (1996-1999)

This video captures the early years of my career when I was more of an all around digital artist vs. character animation focused. I created almost all you see here (i.e., modeling, texturing, lighting, compositing & animation).

PHOTOGRAPHY

I have been passionate about capturing images since I was given my first camera at the age of six. Then in 2007 I began photographing portraits and weddings as a side career. This adventure was born solely out of the desire to create my own art and push my boundaries as a photographer. Here is a small sampling of my delve into the exciting world of professional portrait photography.

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iPHONE ART

It is said that your best camera is the one that is with you. Over the last few years I have embraced the art of mobile photography. All images here are 100% shot and edited on an iPhone.

I was recently interviewed in an article for my iPhone art.

You can read about it here.

Below is a live feed of my Instagram gallery. You can see more photos and subscribe to my Instagram feed here.

Video

I’ve had an interest in cinematography and videography since the 8th grade. Elements of this have been used throughout my photography and animation careers and have now found themselves showing up in my family vacation videos.

Maui 2013

Our family vacation to Maui. It was a wonderful time of unwinding, exploring, adventuring, and enjoying the island paradise with our two kids.

Canon 5d Mark III (24-70mm) and GoProHero 3.

Summer 2012

How we spent our summer in 2012.

Canon 5d Mark III (24-70mm)

Christmas 2013

Our version of a Christmas card.

Canon 5d Mark III (16-35mm)

About Me

As you’ve probably guessed so far, I am an ANIMATOR and a PHOTOGRAPHER.

Animation allows me to breath life into lifeless objects. I tell stories and sculpt emotion by posing and creating movement. It has given me a very keen eye into analyzing the world around me.
Photography draws upon the same discipline by allowing me to capture life. A good portrait photographer needs two important skills – to recognize special moments and react within a split second to capture it, as well as to help recreate, when needed, peak moments that may be too difficult to capture.
Being a photographer makes me a better animator. And being an animator drives me to be a better photographer.

Résumé

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Lead Character Animator

Naughty Dog

2002 – Present (12+ years) Santa Monica, CA

I started work at Naughty Dog on JakII. My responsibilities balanced between animating the creatures, animating cinematics, and the hi rez print team for both Jak II and Jak 3.

I became the lead gameplay animator on our first PS3 project, Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune. My responsibilities were to lead the interactive animation team, architect our animation pipeline, direct motion capture shoots, and develop our hero character, Nathan Drake.

My work continued onto Uncharted 2 where about half way through I moved on to manage the interactive cinematic team. Uncharted 2 won game of the year and our team walked away with the the prestigious award for Outstanding Achievement in Animation by the AIAS (the video game industry’s equivalent to an Oscar).

During, Uncharted 3, I merged both the interactive animation teams and lead a team of 17 animators. My responsibilities were to lead the team, help develop the hero character, direct a majority of our team’s motion capture shoots, animate interactive cinematics, and do my best to inspire our team to push the boundaries in interactive animation. Once again, our team was able to walk away with the award for Outstanding Achievement in Animation by the AIAS.

I am currently working as a lead animator on the highly anticipated PlayStation 4 title, Uncharted 4 (no pressure).

Photographer

Jeremy Yates Photography

June 2007 – June 2011 (4 years 1 month)

Photographed wedding, engagement, lifestyle, and children’s portraits.

Character Animator

TDRL

January 2000 – October 2002 (2 years 10 months)

My primary focus was on character animation for various animated shorts and vfx films.

VFX artist

Digital Domain

June 1999 – January 2000 (8 months)