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Montreal, Canada
+1 514 555 0173
catherine.haldane@mailhub.io
catherinehaldane.com
linkedin.com/in/chaldane

Hard Skills

  • Character-based VFX
  • 3D modelling
  • ZBrush
  • Rigging
  • Skeletal animation
  • Blender
  • Adobe Creative Suite
  • Texturing
  • Skinning
  • Unreal Engine
  • Autodesk Maya
  • Cinema 4D

Languages

English

Native or bilingual

French

Full professional

Spanish

Professional working

Soft Skills

  • Attention to detail
  • Communication
  • Time management
  • Collaboration
  • Problem-solving

Catherine Haldane

3D Character Animator

Character animator with five years in 3D modelling, rigging, skinning and rendering for games, looking for a studio building action-heavy worlds. Delivers combat and traversal animation in Blender, Maya and Unreal Engine, and has shipped two AAA titles and an indie release.

Work Experience

3D Character Animator

Iceberg Games

Apr 2023 – PresentToronto, Canada

  • Delivered the character animation sequences for a high-pressure release, with player immersion up 35% in the game-tester surveys
  • Matched CG characters’ animation to their environment and personality with the game designers and writers
  • Depicted complex concepts through high-end 3D animation in Blender for a AAA game that sold over five million copies in its first six months
  • Trained three junior animators in the character-animation toolset within a month
  • Met every project deadline across two games with over 200 hours of gameplay between them

Animator and Designer

Laughtrack Studios

Jan 2021 – Mar 2023New York, USA

  • Designed the promotional material for the stages of an indie game’s development with the marketing department
  • Designed characters and environments with the concept artists and storyboard writers for a seamless delivery of the final animation
  • Introduced mixed 2D and 3D animation techniques for the studio’s visual style
  • Modelled the characters in ZBrush for the re-release of a 2D game, three weeks ahead of schedule

Education

BFA in Animation

New York University

2018 – 2021

Certificates

Kawaii Character Creation in 3D with Blender
Domestika, 2023

Modeling 3D Cartoon Characters
Udemy, 2023

ZBrush Crash Course: 3D Character Modeling for Organic and Hard Surfaces
Coursera, 2023

Introduction to 3D Animation
Domestika, 2023

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Catherine Haldane, 3D Character Animator

Catherine Haldane is a 3D character animator five years into games work, from an indie studio to a AAA release, and applying for a senior animator role at a studio building action titles. An animator is hired on shipped titles and on what the animation did for the game, so this resume names the two studios, the AAA release and its sales, a player-immersion figure from the tester surveys, and the juniors trained.

Why this resume works

  • The AAA release is given with its sales, over five million copies in six months, so the scale of what shipped is on the page.
  • Player immersion up 35% in the tester surveys is the one number that ties the animation to the game's reception rather than to the pipeline.
  • Training three junior animators within a month is kept as its own bullet, which is the senior-role evidence in a five-year history.
  • The hard skills run twelve tools one a line down the column, from ZBrush to Cinema 4D, so a studio can check its own pipeline against them at a glance.
  • A Soft Skills section is drawn as chips in the column, and four dated certificates sit under their own disc, which shows the toolset is being kept current.
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