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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.

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Sep 2022 - present

CharacterTD - Rigging
(Walt Disney Animation Studios)

- Moana, Disney project (2024)

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CharacterTD/ Rigger
(Sony Pictures Animation )

Jan 2021 - Sep 2022

- Spider-Man Across the Spider-Verse, feature film

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Sep 2020 - Jan 2021

Character Rigger

(Icon Creative Studio)

- Monsters at work, Disney + series

Alice in the Wonderland Disney Jr. series

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Sr Rigging Artist
(Mikros Animation Studio)

Aug 2019 - Sep 2020

- "Paw Patrol the movie", feature film.

- "The SpongeBob Movie 3", feature film

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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.

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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 

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Mar 2017 - Aug 2017

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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

Teaching Experience

Rigging Dojo
Cartoon rigging
- Online Mentor (Seasonal)

Keyframe Anim School
"Rigging for TDs"
- Course Teacher (Seasonal)

The Gnomon Workshops
Creating Stylized Facial Rigs for Production in Maya
- Instructor/Author (Recorded)

Cedim The school of Design
2 weeks rigging workshops
(2022)

Visual College of Arts & Design (VCAD)
Made rigging terms syllabus (2021)

Anahuac Mayab University
Rigging and Maya courses
- Instructor (2017 - 2019)




Talks Experience
Cape Town - International Animation Festival (CTIAF)
Talk - Rigging in Maya

Yucatan I6 

Talk - Disney Animation Pipeline

ESDI Barceolna 
Talk - Rigging for production
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Escena Animation School
Talk - Rigging for production

UANL (LMAD EXPO)

Talk - Animation Pipeline

CREC+
Talk - Being creative

©2024 by HAT Rigs (Hector Abraham Torres)

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