Math wizard series - Osmo
From 2019-2023, I was the lead character animator for Osmo’s Math Wizard game series, aimed to teach basic math skills to kids ages 6-8. During this time, I worked closely with the team’s Art Director to set the series’ high level animation style - how characters and elements would move that complimented the game’s visual world, and then working with the engineers on the development side to make sure that characters and animations were implemented properly within each game. The role helped me hone both my technical and conceptual skills as an animator. I was tasked with building animation style guides that were shared with external animators on best practices for rigs, animations and export purposes, to make sure we could maintain visual consistency across a large library of characters. A major highlight was overseeing the production of over 600 unique animations on The Secrets of the Dragons over a 3-month development period.
After the initial dual release of Potions and Dragons in the Fall of 2020, we set out to further build the world of Math Wizard with ancillary material before our next big release. Some of my favorite work was during this time, building storyboard animatics for cinematic cutscenes on our various smaller projects.