Casey Dame Creature TD - Animation TD - Simulation TD - Technical Animator Feature Film | Television | Commercials IMDB Profile Professional Skills: Full character face/body rigging of biped/quadruped, multiped, creatures and strange mechanical things. Feature Films: Ghost in the Shell (Atomic Fiction, Oakland) Character TD, body rigs for Major and Kuze death scenes Star Trek: Beyond (Atomic Fiction, Oakland) Character TD, character setups and revisions for Marauders Rings (Atomic Fiction, Oakland) Character TD, full setup for centipede and black river snake Frozen (Walt Disney Animation Studios, Burbank) Character TD, hair/cloth/fur sim in shot character fx RIPD (Image Engine, Vancouver, BC) Senior Creature FX TD, Houdini hair/Maya cloth & flesh sim Life of Pi (MPC, Vancouver, BC) Lead Character Rigging TD, Sinking of Tsimtsum ship and Storm of God; bipeds, quadrupeds, vehicles and maintaining ocean tools Ice Age 4 (Blue Sky Studios, Greenwich, CT) Character TD, character setup for Uncle Fungus Rio (Blue Sky Studios, Greenwich, CT) Character TD, character setup (Bird and Dog) Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (Blue Sky Studios, NY) Character TD, full face & body setup, shape correction Horton Hears a Who! (Blue Sky Studios, NY) Character TD, full face & body setup Animator, extreme deformation fixes & shape correction Star Wars - Episode III (ILM, San Francisco) Creature TD, character setup & rigid body dynamics cloth/flesh/skin/feather/wire sims Eragon (ILM, San Francisco) Creature TD, Rat rig; armored wing/flesh/cloth sims Pirates of the Caribbean Dead Man's Chest (ILM, San Francisco) Creature TD, Palifico full character setup, Davy Jones tentacle sim, multi-layered cloth simulations Chronicles of Narnia - LWW (ILM, San Francisco) Creature TD, fur/flesh/hair/armor sims for 15+ characters Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Digital Domain, Venice) Character TD, cloth sim and onset extra Lord of the Rings-Return of the King (Weta, NZ) Animation TD, scene setup & fixes, Battle of Pelennor Fields Television: Encore VFX, (Burbank), Senior Character TD for shows: Doom Patrol, Batwoman, Titans, The Flash, Supergirl, Black Lightning, Riverdale, Seal Team, Limetown, Boss Level, The Red Line Atomic Fiction, (Oakland), Character TD, Game of Thrones Season 5, Horse and rider setups in Golaem for Houses of Stannis, Dothraki, Bolton Commercials: Various campaigns for Rhythm & Hues, Digital Domain and Pacific Ocean Post Software: Maya Python MEL Disney's "XGen" hair software Shake / Nuke Discreet Combustion Houdini 12 Hair Proprietary Hair/Cloth/Solver systems: Proprietary Shaders Remote Rendering - Conductor ILM, Bluesky, MPC, WDAS Education: • University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN • The School of Communication Arts, Minneapolis, MN BA, Studio Arts, - Painting and Sculpture Computer Art & Animation, Advanced 3D Animation
• Encore VFX, Burbank Anatomy with Andrew Cawrse • Digital Domain, Venice Acting for Animators
• Video Symphony, Burbank Advanced Character • Gnomon School of Visual Effects, Hollywood Mental Animation Ray for Maya