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Pradeep Bal
Senior Gameplay Animator specializing in character animation, rigging, and Unreal Engine pipelines
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Gameplay animator with shipped title experience (Guilty Gear Xrd) and hands-on AAA-style action/simulation work, spanning hand-keyed cinematic gameplay moments, UE5 animation blueprint/state-machine implementation, and full mocap cleanup/polish in MotionBuilder/Maya. Notable for building scalable animation solutions across varying character sizes (takedowns) and for significantly accelerating production workflows (cutting pose time from hours to ~30 minutes).
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Key Strengths
- Strong focus on gameplay readability, staging, and timing under camera constraints
- UE5 locomotion/state-machine tuning (idle/walk/jump/land) for seamless transitions
- Designing takedown animations to work across many player/enemy height combinations
- End-to-end mocap polish with MotionBuilder control rig and constraint/pin tools
- Workflow optimization: reduced Guilty Gear Xrd pose creation time from 2–3 hours to ~30 minutes per pose
- Cross-functional collaboration with design/engineering using precise measurements to hit timing/distance requirements
Reference Highlights
- Pivotal impact on delivering top-quality animations under tight playtest cycles
- Strong commitment to quality; no hesitation to improve
- Continuous learner; always growing regardless of current skill level
- Fast delivery/iteration speed; highly responsive to publisher feedback
- Efficiency impressed publishing partners
- Proactive problem-solver with ideas to fix issues
- Very open to feedback and seeks advice to improve technique and logic
- Reliable and responsive under rapid iteration/tight deadlines
- Versatile and frequently hands-on in Unreal Engine in a small-team environment
- High overall performance (9/10)
- Responsible and consistently delivers
- Crucial contributor to project success
- Outstanding emotional timing and movement
- Elevates overall animation quality beyond requirements
- Meets industry standards for gameplay animation
- Strong control of gesture, movement, and expressive performance
- Extremely effective and fast in Unreal Engine implementation
- Solid and reliable understanding of Unreal animation systems
- Creates valuable automation tools (root-motion script) improving consistency
- Animations appealing after mocap cleanup/enhancement
- Tests/validates animations before final submission
- No notable technical issues with his implemented animations
- Acts as a bridge between design and animation
- Ensures gameplay responsiveness through collaboration with design/coding
- Proactive feedback handling with clear plans and outcomes
- Coordinates with concerned departments to reduce rework/effort
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