Tony Chai

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Experience	Walt Disney Animation Studios http://www.disneyanimation.com/ March 10 - Present Wreck-it Ralph (2012) General Technical Director Tangled Ever After (2012) Technical Director in Lighting/FX Developed and optimized tools to support heavy fx datasets for lighting to use seamlessly. Prep and Landing: Naughty vs Nice (2011) Assistant Technical Director in Lighting/FX Pipeline data management between lighting and effects. Created publish process and maya plugins to make sim data seamless between departments. Lion King 3-D (2011) Stereo Artist and Assistant Technical Director Stereoscopic compositing and support. Built shots from legacy compositing software to Shake through scripts. Created depth maps in the original artwork layers to final shot. Tangled (2010) Assistant Technical Director in Lighting Lighting and compositing. Brought shots through 2k rendering and stereoscopic compositing. soVoz http://www.sovoz.com Software Developer - Virtual Locomotion Controller October 09 - February 10 Developed an immersive application for a virtual controller [boots, hip sensor, head-mounted display] to be used with a motorcycle racing game on an elliptical exercise machine. Chai Productions http://www.chai-productions.com Founder January 03 – Present Founder of Chai Productions, an independent group dedicated to producing viral videos and other multimedia on the internet. Released videos combine video editing, music, graphics, and animation.
Education	University of Pennsylvania, Penn Engineering/Penn CIS Masters of Science in Engineering in Computer Graphics and Game Technology 12/2009 Relevant Courses: Computer Animation, Computer Graphics, Game Design and Development, 3D Modeling, Physically-Based Animation, Engineering Entrepreneurship University of California Irvine, College of Engineering Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering 03/2008 Honors: Dean’s Honor List 04-06 Relevant Courses: Graphics (OpenGL), Algorithm Design, Electronics, Computer Architecture
Technical	Languages: C++, Python, MEL, Qt, Java, C, OpenGL, LC-3, MIPS, HTML Applications: Maya, RenderMan, Houdini, Nuke, Shake, Android App Development, Gamebryo, PhysX, MS Visual Studio, Motionbuilder, ZBrush, Adobe Premiere/After Effects/Photoshop, Adobe Dreamweaver, Arduino Microcontroller
Projects	Maya Plug-in Wrote a Maya Plug-in that automatically rigs a biped character. Based on Baran’s SIGGRAPH 2007 Pinnochio paper [Automatic Rigging and Animation of 3D Characters]. Motion Capture Experience with UPenn’s SIG Motion Capture Lab. Captured various self-motions in VICON Nexus and used the exported BVH data to design a character controller. Rigid Body System Wrote an impulse-based rigid body system, including broadphase and narrowphase collision detection/resolution, contact resolution, gravity, and friction. Narrowphase collision detection based on SIGGRAPH 2003 paper [Nonconvex Rigid Bodies with Stacking]. Curve Editor Wrote a curve editor for Bezier curves, Hermite curves, and B-splines. User can edit/drag control points to see how it affects the interpolated points accordingly. Automatic Guitar Tuner Designed and invented an automatic guitar tuner that twists the pegs of a guitar to the correct pitch when plucked.
Additional	Member of The Animation Guild Union Local 839 IATSE Member of ACM Special Interest Group in Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH) Panel member of Music Teachers’ Association of California (MTAC) Certificate of Merit Languages: Fluent in English and Chinese, Basic conversational in Spanish Overseas Living Experience: USA, Taiwan, Japan, China

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