Nathan Dickson

3D Rigger & Generalist

Provo, United States

Summary

3D Rigger and generalist. Current Junior in the Brigham Young University BFA Animation program.

Experience with facial and body rigging, facial and body mocap, character animation, character modeling, real-time technology, procedural modeling and shading, python scripting, camera tracking, rendering, compositing, and other fields within animation.

Working towards a career as a rigger in the film animation industry.

Skills

Software proficiency

Maya

Houdini

Unreal Engine

Python

RenderMan

Karma

Substance 3D Painter

Blender

Arnold

MotionBuilder

Premiere

Photoshop

Productions

- Movie
  Spring Chicken
- Year
  2022
- Role
  TD, Facial Rigger, Animator
- Company
  Brigham Young University
- Video Game
  Avast Ye
- Year
  2019
- Role
  Modeler
- Company
  Brigham Young University

Experience

Research Assistant at Brigham Young University
Provo, United States of America
September 2022 - Present
Developing a pipeline to stream-line previs using Unreal Engine 5, auto-rigging, mocap suit, Maya Unreal Live-Link, physical to virtual camera, etc.
Rigger at Continuing Education
Provo, United States of America
June 2022 - August 2022
3D Character facial and body rigging,

Setting up and applying mocap to both the face and body of characters,

Transferring rigs between Maya, Motionbuilder, and Unreal,

Cleaning up mocap data on rigs.

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