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Ernesto Ruiz Velasco

Character TD | Rigging Supervisor

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Tinder
Invention of Together

Rigging Supervisor
Character TD
R&D

This project was one of the first ones as supervisor of the rigging department. We did almost 30 character variations with a team of 3 riggers in a really short amount of time.

Besides supervising, I rigged the two main characters that we used as a base for the character variations, provided some tools for animation fixes and rigged some of the outfits.

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CAVEMAN
EXPRESSIONS

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CAVEWOMAN
EXPRESSIONS

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CREDITS

Directed by BUCK
Executive Creative Director Ryan Honey
Executive Producer Maurie Enochson
Creative Director Joe Mullen
Head of CG Doug Wilkinson
Producers Nick Terzich, Emily Rickard
Post Producer Kaitlyn Mahoney
Production Managers Danielle Suarez Cody Ross
Production Coordinator Solana Braun
Animation Director Alex Ceglia
Art Director Richard Gray
Storyboards Vincent Tsui, Joe Mullen
Character Designers Tony Legato, Jerry Suh
Concept Artists Debora Cruchon, Vincent Tsui, Elaine Lee, Jigyu Yoon, Dae-Han Yi, Lauren Gaballo
VFX Supervisors Marc Steinberg, Jens Lindgren
CG Lead Alex Dingfelder
Hair & Fur Wing Sze Lee, Michele Herrera
CG Modeling & Look Development Alex Dingfelder, Michele Herrera, Wing Sze Lee, John Niehuss, Jens Lindgren, Arvid Volz, Joy (Meng-Chwen) Tien
Sana Srinivasan, Brice Linane, Joao Rema, Elijah Akouri, Ana Luisa Santos, Christina Faulkner
Rigging Ernesto Ruiz Velasco, Alex Mann, Xiong Lin
Compositing Lead Marc Steinberg
Lighting & Compositing Alex Dingfelder, Wing Sze Lee, Jens Lindgren, Michele Herrera, John Niehuss, Elliot Brennan
Character Animation Tyler Lancaster, Dony Permedi, Adam Floeck, Alex Ceglia, Peter DeSalvo, Eric Molina, Nicole Ridgwell, William Trebutien, Sana Srinivasan
2D Animation Moses Journey
Directors of Photography Tripp Watt, Jonpaul Douglass
Set Design & Lighting Richard Gray, Jenna Watt, Tripp Watt
Assistant Fabricator Josh Lopata
Additional Grips/Gaffers Matt Wheat, Brody Engelhard
Production Assistants Josh Lopata, Madeline Rocco, Gianni Consiglio, Diego Lizarazu, Jon Brogan