Timothy Albee

• Designed degree curriculum for Computer Assisted Animation & VFX program.
• Redesigned core "General Education" classes to provide students with actual applicable life-skills.
• Trained professors to provide students with skills that studios actually need.

• Directed Rigging and Animation of Quetzalcoatl on high-pressure deadlines.

• Head of 3D & 2D Character Animation, Technical Direction, Simulation, and Facial Animation Departments.
• Directed Animation and Artist Training for 3D CGI, Feature Film / Next-Gen Video-Game.
• Directed 2D Animation for "War Devil Chronicles" series pitch.
• Directed Animation / Simulation tools and technology research and development – leading development of character riggings and simulations, including real-time, user-modifiable, IK dynamics.

• Rigged new "1970's" Cylon Centurion model.
• Animated or re-animated 90% of all Centurion shots.
• Created powerful character performances entirely through pantomime.

• Directed Rigging of Bionic Woman Digital-Stunt-Double.
• Animated all Digital-Stunt-Double shots for original 2007 series pilot episode in record time amid high-volume of concept-changes from executives.

• Animated 99% of Centurion shots for Season 3, raising level of quality of CG character performance from eye-candy to that of true digital actors, entirely through pantomime.
• Replaced two external character animation houses through streamlined production techniques.
• Redesigned Centurion rigging to facilitate high-speed animation techniques.
• Reduced rendering times for Centurion HDRI / Radiosity type renderings by 2,000% bringing per-frame render times from 11 hours to 23 minuets.

• Animated Adventures seminar, Belfast, produced by W5, in conjunction with Aardman Animation, 2007.
• Friendsgraph animation training seminar, Las Vegas, NV, USA, April 2006.
• Speaker at European Association of Animated Film, CARTOON Master – Master Future 2004.
• Interviewed for features and articles in Computer Graphics World, 3D World, Post Magazine, LA Times, Rendernode, Animation Magazine, 3D VFX, VFX World, and Variety Magazine's DVD Exclusive.
• SIGGRAPH 2004 – Main Stage presenter, NewTek Booth.
• Radio Correspondent for Alaska Public Radio Network's General Protection Fault.
• Speaking/Training/Seminar engagements at various venues throughout United States and Europe.

• Kaze, Ghost Warrior Animated short film proof-of-concept, 2004.
• Streamlined production techniques to facilitate high-end visuals with minimal resources.
• Directed development of TAFA Facial Animation System.
• Developed and Coded advanced fur-shading techniques reducing render-times 20x.

• CGI Filmmaking, The Creation of Ghost Warrior, (Wordware Publishing)
• LightWave 3D 9 Foundations of Character Animation, (KURV Studios)
• Lightwave 3D [7], Character Animation, (Wordware Publishing)
• LightWave 3D [8], Character Animation, (Wordware Publishing)
• LightWave 3D [9], Character Animation, (Wordware Publishing)
• Essential Lightwave 3D [7], (Wordware Publishing)
• Essential LightWave 3D [8], (Wordware Publishing)
• Essential LightWave 3D [9], (Wordware Publishing)
• 1001 LightWave 3D [8] Tips and Tricks, (contributing author, Wordware Publishing)
• LightWave 3D [8] Getting Started Guide, (Newtek / Wordware Publishing)
• Articles on CGI, Animation, and Film Production (Keyframe, NewTek Pro, HDRI 3D)
• Member of Advisory Boards for Keyframe and HDRI 3D Magazines

• Box-art for Diamond Multimedia's Viper and Stealth lines of graphics accelerators (2002 - 2003)
• Book Cover Art / Layout / Design (LightWave 3D [7] Character Animation, LightWave 3D [8] Character Animation, Essential LightWave 3D [7], Essential LightWave 3D [8], CGI Filmmaking, The Creation of Ghost Warrior)
• Magazine Cover Art / Layout (Keyframe Magazine Issues 31 and 33)
• Featured Artist: ACS Open North American Championship Sled Dog Race (2003)
• Featured Artist: Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race (2001 - 2004)
• Featured in Wildlife Art Magazine (December 2001, June 2003)

• Production and Direction of 30-second, TV commercial spots.

• Doubled productivity of small teams of artists through effective communication and management.
• Directed concurrent projects across departments.
• Implemented training courses for artists and animators.
• Co-Created and Co-Developed original content for television, feature film and video games.

• Directed television and theatrically released commercials.
• Co-Developed speculative television series.
• Organized off-site, free-lance artists meeting production deadlines and exceeding industry standards for children's video-game "Cinematics."

• Team-player to animate heartfelt, believable performances for the characters "Yar" and "Suri."

• Supervised character modeling and animation for Babylon 5's fifth season and for the TV Movie, Thirdspace.

• Lead character animator for Playstation 1 Video Game.

• Character animation for Interactive Storybooks outsourced by Walt Disney Interactive, SegaSoft, and Mattel.
• Titles worked-on include 101 Dalmatians, Pocahontas, Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree, Puzzle Castle, and Fractured Fairy Tales.