Skills
Primary
Rigging
nCloth
Secundary
3D modeling
python
animation
drawing
Software
Maya
Zbrush
Photoshop
(Winfows/Linux)
Hobbies
Piano
Basketball
Education
Anahuac University
Bachelor "Design and digital animation engineering"
CG Master Academy
"Facial Rigging for Production"
Puppeteer Loungue
"Mechanical rigging"
Special thanks to Pluralsight, vimeo and youtube artists for a lot of tutorials.
Big fan of "The art of moving points" book by Tim Tindall (Pixar)
Hector Abraham Torres
3D Rigger / Character TD
A very passionate 3D Rigger with 7 years of professional experience on international projects.
Sr Rigging Artist
(Mikros Animation Studio)
Rigging Instructor
(Keyframe animation School)
Lead Character TD
(FOX IC)
Aug 2019 - Sep 2020
2019 - present (seasonal)
Sep 2017 - Aug 2019
Character Rigger
(Icon Creative Studio)
Sep 2020 - Feb 2021
- "Paw Patrol the movie", feature film.
- "The SpongeBob Movie 3", feature film
Instructor of the “Rigging for TDs” course .
Currently teaching the 10th generation.
Succesful students are now in top studios like: Sony, Mikros, Icon, Bardel, Scanline, Wildbrain, and some others.
- Monsters at work, Disney + series
- Alice in the Wonderland Disney Jr. series
"Baby TV" shows:
-Snail Trail (Season 1 and 2)- Main Rigger
- Lale Ki Lolu - Supervising rigs
- Tiny Bunch (Season 2) - Lead Rigge
- Little Lola in the city (Season 2) - Lead rigger
“Shows for other TV channels”
- Bradley and Bee - Main Rigger
- Danielle Dee (in progress) - Lead Rigger
- Emmy & Gooro - Lead Rigger
Character Rigger
(Rig-it.net)
Mar 2017 - Aug 2017
3D Rigger
(Boxel animation / Cartoon Network)
Director
(ANFX - National Congress of animation and VFX)
Freelance Rigger
Sep 2016 - Mar 2017
Jan 2016 - Dec 2017
Jan 2015 - present
Rigging characters for different kind of projects: cinematics, games and advertising.
- Max Steel Turbo, episodic film for Cartoon Network.
As the president of an ACM chapter in Mexico, directed two national congresses/festivals about animation and vfx. In which artists from some of the best animation studios (ILM, Dreamworks, MPC, Double Negative, Marvel, Warner, etc.) attended to give talks and workshops for students and professionals during a week.
Rigging for all kind of projects for different studios around the world.
Feature films, Tv shows, advertising and videogames.
SOME CLIENTS:
- Cartoon Network
- Baby TV (FOX)
- Ollin VFX
- Moonactive
- Blue-Faces
- Blow Studios
- Tomavision
- Don Porfirio
- Present Creative CA.
- Keyframe Anim School
- Believe.tv
- Dynalab
- HCG Tech
- Awaken
- Fygostudio
CharacterTD/ Rigger
(Sony Pictures Animation )
Jan 2021 - Sep 2022
- Spider-Man Across the Spider-Verse, feature film
CharacterTD - Rigging
(Walt Disney Animation Studios)
Sep 2022 - present
- Moana, Disney project (2024)