Note
As the release of the game and movie were postponed until 2009 I am unable to show any movies or images until it is released due to the sensitive nature or the material and out of respect for the copyright owners.

Position Held
Animator

Sofware Used
MotionBuilder - Mocap processing
Maya - Animation

Description of duties on the project
On 'The Half-Blood Prince' I was responsible for the organization and structure of the majority of the in game content. I created in game animations both new and legacy from Order of the Phoenix. I worked closely with the animation programmers to make the systems as efficient as possible on EA's largest ever skew release.

During the course of the project a decision was made in the latter half that we should move across to Motion/Performance Capture to bring a more realistic feel to the characters. In the crossover period I was instrumental in creating the animation pipeline as well as establishing new procedures and learning MotionBuilder with no previous knowledge.

I had valuable information for the team’s first Motion Capture shoot (due to previous experience in this field) which enabled us to have a number of extremely productive shoots averaging about 100 moves a day. I even took to the suit in order to capture the broom flying animations on a custom built rig. This choice was basically down to my in depth knowledge of how the animations would be constructed back in the engine and resulted again in a good clean set of data that I processed and migrated into the game engine via our in house tools.