Tanner Owen

Background

About Tanner Owen

Tanner has experience as a crowd supervisor, software developer, and pipeline TD on multiple feature-length films, series, commercials, and other projects. As evidenced by his strong recommendations, his extensive experience as both an artist and developer makes him an invaluable asset to any production. Please refer to IMDb for a list of released credits: Responsibilities have included (but not limited to): Pipeline Design and Development: • working with pipeline supervisors and TDs to build from-scratch crowd pipelines for multiple feature film productions at multiple studios • developing new software tools for use by any department in the pipeline, from production to artist • writing user-friendly documentation for tools written • debugging and supporting existing pipeline API's, scripts, and programs Crowd Agent Development: • creating agents in Massive, Miarmy, and Golaem for use by all crowd artists on a production • developing agent pipelines to promote standardized, stable, and robust artist workflows • engineering of reusable logic systems with application across multiple agents Shot Work: • composing sequence-level crowd layouts for use by all artists • hand animating specific characters to enhance the overall crowd • preserving continuity across shots and sequences, with regard to both performance and look/casting • utilizing whatever software is needed for a production including, but not limited to, Massive, Miarmy, Golaem, Maya, Motion Builder, and Houdini as well as custom or proprietary software solutions