César Sáez

Current

• Lead Rigger at Kandor Graphics

Past

• Freelance at Gizmo Studio
• Character Technical Director at Kandor Graphics
• Freelance at Digital-Rebel

• Lead rigger and character animator at Gizmo Studio
• Freelance at McFly Studio
• Generalist at Ideas Fijas
• Generalist at 3dmedia

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Education

• Universidad Central

Connections

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Industry

Motion Pictures and Film

Websites

• Demo Reel 2008

César Sáez’s Summary

I was born on November 1, 1981 in Santiago, Chile.

I'm a construction engineer (Universidad Central, Chile) but my passion has always been in art, since I was young, I have had an intense curiosity about music, drawing, painting and any art form that allows us to express some idea or emotion. One day in 2002 I discovered the CG world and deeply fell in love with it. From that day on, I have been learning all I can about it.

César Sáez’s Specialties:

Rigging, development, character animation.

César Sáez’s Experience

• Lead Rigger

  Kandor Graphics

  (Privately Held; Motion Pictures and Film industry)

  October 2009 — Present (3 months)

  - Implements animation control rigging systems for complex characters and props using Softimage.
  - Oversees the characters, vehicles and props rigging through the animation pipeline.
  - Develops tools and plug-ins to optimize animation and rigging workflow.
  - Troubleshoot and wrangle character-rigging issues for artists within various disciplines.

• Freelance

  Gizmo Studio

  (Motion Pictures and Film industry)

  September 2009 — October 2009 (2 months)

  Project: Honda advertising
  
  - Universal/generic character rigging.
  - JellyFish character (modeling, texture/shading and rigging).

• Character Technical Director

  Kandor Graphics

  (Motion Pictures and Film industry)

  April 2009 — October 2009 (7 months)

• Freelance

  Digital-Rebel

  (Motion Pictures and Film industry)

  August 2009 — August 2009 (1 month)

  Tools and "facial rig" pipeline for their next animated TV series (Holy Monks).

• Lead rigger and character animator

  Gizmo Studio

  (Marketing and Advertising industry)

  March 2008 — January 2009 (11 months)

  I'm the lead rigger and one of the character animator at the studio. Also i'm responsable for the developing of scripted tools for some projects.

• Freelance

  McFly Studio

  (Motion Pictures and Film industry)

  August 2008 — December 2008 (5 months)

  Character rigging for some projects of the studio.

• Generalist

  Ideas Fijas

  (Animation industry)

  January 2007 — March 2008 (1 year 3 months)

  Animated short film (20 minutes) "AnCiedades", I did the character modeling, all the facial rigs, character animation and some ilumination/renders.
  
  Also i did some some animated commercials for this studio... fun stuff :-)

• Generalist

  3dmedia

  (Marketing and Advertising industry)

  January 2006 — December 2006 (1 year )

  Architecture visualization projects.

César Sáez’s Education

• Universidad Central

  Construction Engineering and Bachelor of Engineering Sciences , Engineering , 2000 — 2005

Additional Information

César Sáez’s Websites:

• Demo Reel 2008

César Sáez’s Interests:

Rigging, scripting, pipeline, character animation

César Sáez’s Groups:

•    Softimage XSI
•    Maya Rigging
•    Creature Rigging
•    Python Developers in Entertainment & Media
•    TD XSI with PYTHON

César Sáez’s Honors:

Degree in Engineer with honors.

César Sáez’s Contact Settings

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