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Skills

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Primary

Rigging

nCloth

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Secundary

3D modeling

python

animation

drawing

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Software

Maya

Zbrush

Photoshop

(Winfows/Linux)

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Hobbies

Piano

Basketball

Education​

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Anahuac University

Bachelor "Design and digital animation engineering"

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CG Master Academy

"Facial Rigging for Production"

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Puppeteer Loungue

"Mechanical rigging"

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Special thanks to Pluralsight, vimeo and youtube artists for a lot of tutorials.

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Big fan of "The art of moving points" book by Tim Tindall (Pixar)

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Hector Abraham Torres


3D Rigger / Character TD 

A very passionate 3D Rigger with 10 years of professional experience on international projects.

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Sr Rigging Artist
(Mikros Animation Studio)

Rigging Instructor
(Keyframe animation School)

Lead Character TD
(FOX IC)

Aug 2019 - Sep 2020

2019 - present (seasonal)

Sep 2017 - Aug 2019

Character Rigger

(Icon Creative Studio)

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Sep 2020 - Jan 2021

- "Paw Patrol the movie", feature film.

- "The SpongeBob Movie 3", feature film

Instructor of the “Rigging for TDs” course .
Currently teaching the 10th generation.

Succesful students are now in top studios like: Sony, Mikros, Icon, Bardel, Scanline, Wildbrain, and some others.

- Monsters at work, Disney + series

Alice in the Wonderland Disney Jr. series

"Baby TV" shows:
-Snail Trail (Season 1 and 2)- Main Rigger 
- Lale Ki Lolu - Supervising rigs
- Tiny Bunch (Season 2) - Lead Rigge
- Little Lola in the city (Season 2) - Lead rigger

“Shows for other TV channels”
- Bradley and Bee - Main Rigger 
- Danielle Dee (in progress) - Lead Rigger 
- Emmy & Gooro - Lead Rigger 

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Character Rigger
(Rig-it.net)

Mar 2017 - Aug 2017

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3D Rigger
(Boxel animation / Cartoon Network)

Director
(ANFX - National Congress of animation and VFX)

Freelance Rigger

Sep 2016 - Mar 2017

Jan 2016 - Dec 2017

Jan 2015 - present

Rigging characters for different kind of projects:  cinematics, games and advertising.

 - Max Steel Turbo, episodic film for Cartoon Network.


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As the president of an ACM chapter in Mexico, directed two national congresses/festivals about animation and vfx. In which artists from some of the best animation studios (ILM, Dreamworks, MPC, Double Negative, Marvel, Warner, etc.) attended to give talks and workshops for students and professionals during a week.

Rigging for all kind of projects for different studios around the world.
Feature films, Tv shows, advertising and videogames.

  SOME CLIENTS:
- Cartoon Network
- Baby TV (FOX)
- Ollin VFX

- Moonactive
- Blue-Faces

- Blow Studios
- Tomavision

- Don Porfirio

- Present Creative CA.
- Keyframe Anim School
- Believe.tv
- Dynalab
- HCG Tech
- Awaken
- Fygostudio

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CharacterTD/ Rigger

(Sony Pictures Animation )

Jan 2021 - Sep 2022

- Spider-Man Across the Spider-Verse, feature film

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CharacterTD - Rigging
(Walt Disney Animation Studios)

Sep 2022 - present

- Moana, Disney project (2024)

Teaching Experience​

Rigging Dojo
Cartoon rigging
- Online Mentor (Seasonal)

Keyframe Anim School
"Rigging for TDs"
- Course Teacher (Seasonal)

The Gnomon Workshops
Creating Stylized Facial Rigs for Production in Maya
- Instructor/Author (Recorded)

Cedim The school of Design
2 weeks rigging workshops
(2022)

Visual College of Arts & Design (VCAD)
Made rigging terms syllabus (2021)

Anahuac Mayab University
Rigging and Maya courses
- Instructor (2017 - 2019)




Talks Experience

Cape Town - International Animation Festival (CTIAF)
Talk - Rigging in Maya

Yucatan I6 

Talk - Disney Animation Pipeline

ESDI Barceolna 
Talk - Rigging for production

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Escena Animation School
Talk - Rigging for production

UANL (LMAD EXPO)

Talk - Animation Pipeline

CREC+
Talk - Being creative

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