Leander Schock

Gotham Knights: responsible for player-character gameplay animation systems, e.g. 3C ground-navigation (locomotion), grapple, heroic traversals, jumps, climbs,... Designing, protyping, planning and creating player character animation systems within a multidiscipplinary 3C scrum-team together with game-designers, gameplay programmers, character animators, camera experts and DevQA testers as a team in an iterative design approach; Co-directing Motioncapture for 3C system animations;

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (gameplay) as Lead Animator Marvel’s Avengers as Principle Animator: development and creation of NPC gameplay systems and animation sets. Tomb Raider (Multiplayer) as Lead Animator Shadow of the Tomb Raider: specific player locomotion gameplay feature and animation-set.

Animating and rigging biped and quadruped 3D characters; Facial Animations. Games: Prince of Persia - The Forgotten Sands, Shaun White Skate -Wii, Prince of Persia (2008), Far Cry 2, Lost - Via Domus

Lead Artist (leading team of 15) and Senior Animator creating graphical content and animating characters for console video games using MAYA, 3dsMAX and other applications. Games: MH2 (xbox, ps2), GTA Vice City (xbox), GTA III (xbox), MaxPayne2 (xbox, ps2)

Managing small MultiMedia Department to create advertising (print, multimedia, animation, banners) for inhouse and other jobpilot branches

Master thesis: "Characterization and the narrative paradox in animation: Exploring the creative process in designing an animated character with reactive behaviour"

3d animation