Overview
Education
- B.A., Theatre
- M.S.W, Social Work
Brief Biography
Timothy works at Shocker Studios as the Associate Director of the School of Digital Arts and the Animation Program Director. Prior to this, Timothy has worked on Movies, Television and Theatre both as an actor and as a visual effects artist. Timothy has appeared in several television and film productions including The West Wing, The Shield, A Man Apart and 13 Dead Men. Timothy is also an award-winning digital artist, as well as a member of SAG/AFTRA. Some of Timothy鈥檚 visual effects credits include Lead Environment artist for Skybound, and digital projections for Music Theatre Wichita's My Son, Pinocchio, Big Fish and The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Information
Timothy is an advanced generalist with a focus on artistic and procedural design in the animation field. Some specific areas of interests and expertise include computer modeling, digital sculpting, developing procedural modeling tools, photogrammetry, layout, previsualization, 2D & 3D design, uv layout, lighting, shader and texture development, rendering pipelines that include multiple renderers and multi pass rendering into exr channels, compositing and 2D visual effects, python and mel scripting, plugin development, character and prop rigging, animation, 3D camera tracking, visual effects (pyro/particle/rigid body/soft body/cloth/hair/flip simulations and game engine vfx), cloth and pattern design in Vellum and Marvelous Designer, VDB workflows, matte painting and multi-camera projections integration, procedural material generation and 3D environment design and layout.
Timothy has worked with animation students to provide animations as educational content for the research project "Smart Fusion Material Discovery Research Cluster".
Areas of teaching interest include each level of the animation and vfx pipeline for the animation, film and game industries.