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Seth Hippen
Senior Character/Cinematic Animator specializing in games and feature animation
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AAA character animator with shipped experience across Respawn (Medal of Honor), Avalanche (Hannah Montana World Tour; Hogwarts Legacy), and Halon/Epic pipeline work implementing emotes/idles for Fortnite in UE5. Strong in mocap-driven performance polish and readability-focused gameplay animation, and has led outsourced animators on Hogwarts Legacy cinematics while balancing schedule and runtime rig constraints.
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Key Strengths
- AAA gameplay animation readability and silhouette clarity under camera-distance constraints
- High-fidelity mocap cleanup/polish (noise reduction, stray key removal, curve smoothing) while preserving realism
- Strong contact-point and prop interaction accuracy (constraints, joint attachments)
- Maya-based performance shaping using Graph Editor to emphasize key poses and story beats
- UE5 implementation troubleshooting (skeleton/rig mismatches, deformation differences, curve interpolation issues)
- Outsource team leadership for shipped cinematics under tight deadlines and runtime-optimized rig constraints
- Actionable animation direction using real-world references plus detailed pose draw-overs
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