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United Kingdom (3:49 AM)
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Joined on May 10, 2011
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I am an animation techniques lecturer, researcher and storyteller, passionate about creating characters (theatre, animation, procedural, AI), understanding different forms of behaviour and how they create empathy in audiences. I’m currently the unit leader for 3D Character Development and Character Animation Techniques on the BSc Computer Animation and VFX course, at Manchester Metropolitan University. Before this role, I did an Engineering Doctorate (EngD) in Computer Animation at the University of Bath, UK, within the Centre for Digital Entertainment (CDE). I have a PGCert Learning And Teaching In Higher Education and am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA). My main R&D interests are in different forms of expressing character animation: procedural, behavioral (Laban motion analysis, emergence theory, AI etc) and physics based, movement and pattern analysis, mesh reconstruction and deformation, expressing emotions, humour and other human behaviours through abstract movement (automata) and mathematical functions.
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Experience
Lecturer in Animation Techniques
Sep, 2019 - Present
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6 years, 2 months
Manchester Metropolitan University
Sep, 2019 - Present
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6 years, 2 months
I teach 3D modelling, texturing, rigging and basic animation to level 4-7 students (bachelor and masters). I also organise animation jams, have an active role in Athena SWAN and do research in procedural animation.
Sep, 2019 - Present
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6 years, 2 months
Junior Technical Director
Jan, 2013 - Jun, 2013
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5 months
Framebreed
Jan, 2013 - Jun, 2013
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5 months
I worked on visual effects in 3dsmax + plugins like Thinking Particles, Frost, FumeFX. The projects I mainly worked on are: Spongebob Squarepants 4D: The Great Jelly Rescue and the 2013 Bramac commercial.
Jan, 2013 - Jun, 2013
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5 months
Education
University of Bath
2014 - 2019
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5 years
EngD in Computer Animation Techniques

United Kingdom
2014 - 2019
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5 years
Bournemouth University
2011 - 2012
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1 year
MSc Computer Animation and Visual Effects

United Kingdom
2011 - 2012
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1 year
Universitatea 'Alexandru Ioan Cuza' din Iasi
2008 - 2011
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3 years
BSc Computer Science

Romania
2008 - 2011
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3 years
Qualifications
PGCERT
2021
Manchester Metropolitan University
I am certified for Higher Education teaching
2021
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