Stuart Elkington

Background

About Stuart Elkington

7 years Art Directing experience in the video game software entertainment industry • 17 years Animation Lead and art asset and art personnel management experience • Managed internal and outsourced animation teams by providing critical quality assurance feedback to their animation, modeling and rigging submissions prior to tracking their assets into Perforce for in-game integration • Extensive knowledge and experience with Character Studio, 3D Studio Max for skeleton building (biped and custom) mesh binding (vertice weighting), rigging, key frame animation and motion capture editing • Working knowledge of Maya • Adept in animation outsource management; developed extensively art and animation assets through Shanghai based vendors on multiple titles • 21 years of key-framing character animations in multiple styles for video games • Five years experience of motion capture production and editing for video games • 23 years experience of producing computer-generated imagery and animation within the video game and TV broadcast industries combined • Shipped 12 titles on multiple platforms — PC, PS1, PS2, PS3, N64, Game Cube, Wii, Xbox, Xbox 360 • Working knowledge of Perforce, AlienBrain, Unreal Excel, Photoshop, Illustrator, VSS, Premier, Ogre 3d, Motionbuilder