Nikki Christie

technical animator

Facial animator

Senior technical animator specialising in facial performance.

12 years studio experience across animation/ rigging/ technical animation within games, cinematics and feature animation.

Software / Applications:

Autodesk Maya

- python/MEL scripting/tool creation

- keyframe/mocap clean-up animation

- character rigging (humanoid + creature)

- HIK

- vehicle rigging

- environment rigging

- camera set-up

- scene layout

plug-ins:

metahuman for maya, animbot,
mGear, ngSkinTools

Unreal Engine

- custom editor tools (python/widgets)

- keyframe/mocap clean-up animation

- procedural animation

- anim retargeting
- sequencer

- blueprints

- control rig

plug-ins:

Metahuman Creator/Editor/Animator
LiveLink

Additional Experience:

DCC:

Autodesk Motionbuilder

Blender

Engine:

Unity

Code:

Python

Task management:

Autodesk Flow (Shotgrid/Shotgun)

Jira

Perforce

SVN

Github

Azure

CV