Jessie Rolan

Past

• Senior Animator at Deadline Games
• Senior Animator at Pi Studios
• Lead Animator at TimeGate Studios

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Education

• Art Institute of Houston

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Connections

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Industry

Animation

Websites

• My Website

Jessie Rolan’s Summary

Character animator for games, films, TV/ads, and cinematics.

Jessie Rolan’s Specialties:

Keyframe character animation; Mocap data editing and animation; Software packages: Motion Builder, Max, Maya and XSI; Adobe CS4 Master Collection, specifically: Photoshop, Premiere, and After Effects

Jessie Rolan’s Experience

• Senior Animator

  Deadline Games

  (Privately Held; Computer Games industry)

  June 2008 — June 2009 (1 year 1 month)

  Projects: Watchmen
  
  Responsibilities: Mocap and Keyframe animation using MotionBuilder and Max.

• Senior Animator

  Pi Studios

  (Privately Held; Computer Games industry)

  October 2005 — May 2008 (2 years 8 months)

  Projects: Call of Duty 3, Mercenaries 2, Rogue Warrior, and Rock Band
  
  Responsibilities: Animating and rigging characters using 3dMax, Motion Builder, Maya, and XSI. Including keyframing and mocap, facial animations and lip-syncing, cinematic camera work, and polishing existing animations.

• Lead Animator

  TimeGate Studios

  (Privately Held; Computer Games industry)

  October 2000 — October 2005 (5 years 1 month)

  Projects: Axis and Allies, Kohan 2: Kings of War
  
  Responsibilities:
  Leadership: Lead team of four animators, ensuring 'look and feel' standards of quality
  Teamwork:: Compiled Animation Lists with Design. Worked with Programming on engine integration
  Animation/Rigging: Keyframed dozens of animation sets after rigging. Polished >90% of all game anims
  Modeling/Mapping/Texturing: Modeled/Mapped several characters; Textured a number as well
  Optimization: Ensured all character optimization, specifically: Polygon and Skinning Partition limits

Jessie Rolan’s Education

• Art Institute of Houston

  Associates of Applied Science in Computer Animation , Computer Animation , 1998 — 2000

  3.7/4.0 GPA

Additional Information

Jessie Rolan’s Websites:

• My Website