Skills
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Primary
Rigging
nCloth
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Secundary
3D modeling
python
animation
drawing
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Software
Maya
Zbrush
Photoshop
(Winfows/Linux)
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Hobbies
Piano
Basketball
Education
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Anahuac University
Bachelor "Design and digital animation engineering"
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CG Master Academy
"Facial Rigging for Production"
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Puppeteer Loungue
"Mechanical rigging"
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Special thanks to Pluralsight, vimeo and youtube artists for a lot of tutorials.
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Big fan of "The art of moving points" book by Tim Tindall (Pixar)
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Hector Abraham Torres
3D Rigger / Character TD
A very passionate 3D Rigger with 10 years of professional experience on international projects.
Sep 2022 - present
CharacterTD - Rigging
(Walt Disney Animation Studios)
- Moana, Disney project (2024)
CharacterTD/ Rigger
(Sony Pictures Animation )
Jan 2021 - Sep 2022
- Spider-Man Across the Spider-Verse, feature film
Sep 2020 - Jan 2021
Character Rigger
(Icon Creative Studio)
- Monsters at work, Disney + series
- Alice in the Wonderland Disney Jr. series
Sr Rigging Artist
(Mikros Animation Studio)
Aug 2019 - Sep 2020
- "Paw Patrol the movie", feature film.
- "The SpongeBob Movie 3", feature film
Rigging Instructor
(Keyframe animation School)
2019 - present (seasonal)
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.
Sep 2017 - Aug 2019
Lead Character TD
(FOX IC)
"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
Mar 2017 - Aug 2017
Sep 2016 - Mar 2017
Character Rigger
(Rig-it.net)
3D Rigger
(Boxel animation / Cartoon Network)
Rigging characters for different kind of projects: cinematics, games and advertising.
- Max Steel Turbo, episodic film
for Cartoon Network.
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Jan 2016 - Dec 2017
Director
(ANFX - National Congress of animation and VFX)
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.
Jan 2015 - present
Freelance Rigger
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