Dragon Age: Dreadwolf

World Animation Supervisor

Created World Anim team to explore new ways to convey narrative - combining cinematic & gameplay expertise.  Grew the team from 3 to 11 over the course of the project, by the end I was supervising 3 small teams.

• Systemic Conversations - leveraging runtime animation systems, this team is creating 18+ hours of cinematics with a group of 5.
• Ambient Scenes - cinematics in the gameplay space, this team creates custom moments that emphasize player agency.
• Infill & Environments - Large scale ambient content & systems that tell the meta-story of regions & contribute to the narrative of the game world.
• Systems & Tools - My teams created new pipelines, systems & tools for scaling up all their content.

Personal Contributions

• NPC's & AI - I created & owned all non-combat characters from blueprint creation to template structure.  This included their AI & I made several tools for manipulating NPC behaviours that saw wide usage across the project.

• Environmental Animation - working with Environment Art & VFX, I pushed significant amounts of animated content into our levels, aligned on a high level vision I crafted.

• Tech Support - I assissted with scripting & debugging across all of animation, trained several design groups in presentation systems.

• Management & Career Growth - maintained an 85%+ manager satisfaction, won an award for Humility & Integrity, and collaborated with Bioware & EA to create a Job Family Matrix for Systems Animation.