Monika Kucera

— Art Directing all projects in house — Lead Artist for animation, modeling, texturing and rigging — Animated 13 shots for the American children series “Andy’s Airplanes” including the DVD intro — Rendered 12 shots for the American children series “Andy’s Airplanes” — Modeled and Animated a close to photorealistic Panther — Steadily training my abilities by creating and maintaining small projects, whenever there is time for it

— Fully rigged two characters, male and female — Animated two walk cycles and up to ten different moves, to be used with different - at the time unknown - camera angles — Simulated one negligee with nCloth — Attached different lingerie to the characters which where delivered after animation — Exported the animated mesh to a 3ds Max readable format

— Created all 3D content for several dozen commercials — Answered all questions concerning VFX

— Designed six out of ten Logo Characters — Modeled and textured two Characters — Animated three ten second idents

Animated the main characters digital double for the movie “Kill Daddy Good Night.”

— Modeled one of the two main 3D characters of the movie “Prisoners of the Sun,” an alien hornet — Animated and test-rigged the hornet, to find out the actual needs of the production rig — Prepared finished scenes for rendering, which was dearly needed and very welcome by the 3D supervisor

Animated several shots of cartoon peanuts jumping around and expressing joy for Bavik beer for a Belgian beer commercial.

Animated loops of a yellow ice bear — the mascot of the Berlin GASAG — for the use on their internet portal

— Operated up to ten different software packages, among them Autodesk Maya, Apple shake, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Photoshop, Apple Motion — Supervised an average of three people on 15–20 projects — Developed a MEL script, which built and rigged a 3D magazine for instant use on several commercials automatically with a minimum of input — Guided four trainees, widened their VFX related skills and sharpened their focus for their environment