Niels Kleinheinz
Skills
Timeline
Professional experience for Niels Kleinheinz
- Current 7 years and 6 months, since Nov 2017
VES Member
Visual Effects Society
VES Member
- Current 8 years and 7 months, since Oct 2016
Senior Rigger
Trixter Film GmbH
Creating rigs in Maya, scripting tools in Python.
- 1 month, Jun 2018 - Jun 2018
Guest Lecturer
Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf
Held a series of lectures about facial rigging in Maya for 4th semester students at the Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF.
- 1 month, Jul 2017 - Jul 2017
Guest Lecturer Facial Rigging
Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf
Held a series of lectures about facial rigging in Maya for 4th semester students at Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF.
- 9 months, Jan 2016 - Sep 2016
Lead Character Rigging and Pipeline TD
zoobe message entertainment GmbH
Realtime character rigging in Maya. Character pipeline development in Python, MEL, JavaScript for Maya, Photoshop etc.
- 1 month, Jun 2016 - Jun 2016
Guest Lecturer Facial Rigging
Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf
Held a series of lectures about facial rigging in Maya for 4th semester students at Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF.
- 2 months, Jan 2016 - Feb 2016
Character Rigging Consultant
The Animation Workshop
Character rigging consulting for the 3rd year bachelor short film projects.
- 1 year and 2 months, Nov 2014 - Dec 2015
Character Technical Director
zoobe message entertainment GmbH
Character rigging in Maya and character pipeline development in Python.
- 2 months, Sep 2014 - Oct 2014
Rigger
morro images GmbH & Co. KG
Serena teaser trailer. Rigged two humanoids and one quadruped in Maya. Football shape facial rigging approach w/ face and limb benders and shapers.
- 11 months, Nov 2013 - Sep 2014
Rigging Supervisor
scopas medien AG
- 2 months, Jan 2014 - Feb 2014
Rigging Teacher
The Animation Workshop
Teaching the 2nd year students how to build deformation rigs.
Rigged one character for a TV commercial in 3ds Max.
- 3 months, Jul 2013 - Sep 2013
Rigger
Animationsfabrik
Rigged characters and props for a TV commercial.
- 5 months, Mar 2013 - Jul 2013
Rigger
Trixter
Rigged 8 realistic wolves for the show Wolfblood Season 2 on BBC.
- 2 years and 1 month, Mar 2011 - Mar 2013
Rigger
Framestore
* Hero character puppet, face and deformation rigs * Hero and secondary digi doubles * CG stereoscopic camera rigs * Character path animation toolkit * Character tools development Internal education: Nuke Training For Rigging, Framestore Animation Mentorship, Life Drawing, Advanced Python For Rigging, Math For Computer Graphics, Introduction to Python, Figure Sculpture - Anatomy from the inside out
- 3 months, Jan 2011 - Mar 2011
Character TD
Trixter
Character rigging in Maya for Journey 2: The Mysterious Island
- 1 month, Oct 2010 - Oct 2010
Character TD
Storz & Escherich
Hand rig creation for a Subaru commercial in 3ds Max.
- 1 month, Sep 2010 - Sep 2010
Character TD
Hammer & Tongs
Bendy arm rig creation for DUD in Maya.
- 2 months, Jun 2010 - Jul 2010
Character TD
MotionWorks
Character rigging in 3ds Max for a TV show.
Educational background for Niels Kleinheinz
- 4 years and 11 months, Apr 2002 - Feb 2007
Computer Science
Beuth University of Applied Sciences
CG, Animation, Muscle Systems
Languages
German
First language
English
Fluent
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