Adam Uthoff

MARVEL SNAP: Grand Arena

Production Manager - All Aspects

Served as project lead and primary point of contact for our client (Second Dinner) to produce the Marvel SNAP: Grand Arena Announcement trailer.

With a very, very short timeline, our team was able to design, build, and animate these Fantastic Four characters from scratch. We ended up delivering something that exceeded our client's expectations in quality and quantity, all while staying on schedule and exceeding our profit goals.

MARVEL SNAP: GRAND ARENA

Marvel / second Dinner

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Doom: The Dark Ages

Associate Production Manager - Cutscene Animation (mix of motion capture and hand-keyed animation)

Worked directly with Id Software to produce in-game cutscene animation for DOOM: The Dark Ages. I developed tools and automations for our production team to integrate seamlessly into Id's pipeline and tracking systems, effectively hosting our own branch of their overall animation workflow (schedules, review tracking, submission tracking, note tracking, etc.).

Worked alongside Id producers to schedule, track, and distribute dozens of hours of motion capture takes to animators.

DOOM: THE DARK AGES

ID SOFTWARE

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VALORANT | THE GAMES BEGIN

Production Coordinator - all aspects (excluding gameplay).

While holding the title of Production Coordinator, I served as the project lead, solo production member, and primary point of contact for our client (Riot Games) for all CG aspects of THE GAMES BEGIN. Valorant trailer. I managed storyboards, design, modeling, surfacing, rigging, pre-viz, layout, animation, effects, motion graphics, lighting, rendering, compositing, and audio / post.

VALORANT: THE GAMES BEGIN

riot games

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DRAGON AGE: THE VEILGUARD

Associate Production Manager: Cutscene Lighting.

Served as primary client (Bioware) contact and managed a team of lighters for in-engine cutscene lighting.

DRAGON AGE: THE VEILGUARD

bioware / ELECTRONIC ARTS

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2XKO | Unreleased Cosmetics

Production Coordinator - several unreleased character intro and victory animations. (I cannot display any due to NDA)

Served as primary client contact (Riot Games) for outsourcing animation and storyboards behalf of Brazen Animation. Lead the initial test scope, laying the groundwork and structure for a long-standing working relationship.

2XKO

RIOT GAMES

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DESTINY 2

Associate Production Manager - Animation, Rigging, Layout.

Served as primary client contact (Bungie) for outsourcing animation, rigging, and layout support on behalf of Brazen Animation. Lead the initial test scope, laying the groundwork and structure for a long-standing working relationship.

DESTINY 2

BUNGIE

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OVERWATCH 2 | Hero Select Animations

Production Coordinator - Multiple hero select animations.

Served as a coordinator tracking and managing several artists for many of Overwatch 2's Hero Select animation. Worked directly with Blizzard's Overwatch team to complete high quality animations in a quick timeline.

OVERWATCH 2

Blizzard Entertainment

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RED ONE: Marketing Toolkit

Associate Production Manager - Lead in all aspects.

Served as lead and primary contact for Amazon / MGM to produce footage for Red One's marketing toolkit. Lead a team of artists and production members to fully re-build film assets, coordinate and shoot motion capture, and overhaul our pipeline to support feature quality FX at a fidelity Brazen had not handled before.

Project required our team to develop a new cloth and hair pipeline, a new trackerless motion capture pipeline, all while delivering on time and above our profit target. Extremely proud of our team for tackling what seemed like an insurmountable technical challenge and timeline head-on.

RED ONE

amazon mgm

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VALORANT | HOME SCREENS

Associate Production Manager / Production Coordinator - All aspects (excluding audio design).
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Served as a coordinator for 1 and project lead for the following 3 VALORANT Home Screens. Served as the primary client contact (Riot Games). Mix of 3D Animation and Motion Graphics (4th homescreen).

VALORANT HOME SCREENS

RIOT GAMES

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THE MEEPS | LOVE LOUDER

Production Coordinator - Lighting, Cloth, Rendering, Hair, Post

Served as a coordinator on all back-end departments.

This is the project that established all of the current render management conventions and processes we have at Brazen today. This was the most hair Brazen ever had to render for a project up to this point, and the sitting Head of Production tasked me with building out automated render reports and forecasts from scratch. We were able to accurately forecast ahead of time exactly how much extra processing power we needed, saving the project from being bottlenecked by render time.

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LOVE LOUDER

the meeps

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GREEN EMBER | HELMER IN THE DRAGON TOMB

Production Manager - All aspects (Beta - Release).

Served as PM for Brazen Game's debut title. Helped steer the project towards release, staying on budget and preserving our timeline for multiple consecutive platform releases (Steam, Android, iOS, Switch).

HELMER: THE DRAGON TOMB

LONGTREADER

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SPACE JAM: A NEW LEGACY

Production Assistant - Storyboards, 2D Animation, Compositing, SFX (not responsible for live action footage)

Served as a PA for 3 Space Jam: A New Legacy TV ads. Worked with a team of artists to track all stages and deliverables, from boards, key animation, in-betweens, clean-up, ink, and compositing.

SPACE JAM: A NEW LEGACY

Warner Brothers

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WAYFINDER

Production Coordinator - Assets, Lighting, 2DFX, 3DFX, Compositing, Rendering, Post, Audio

Served as a coordinator for multiple stages of production for a CG reveal trailer for Airship Syndicate's WAYFINDER. Tracked and managed hundreds of assets and dozens of artists across nearly of a year of production for this project.

WAYFINDER

AIRSHIP SYNDICATE / Digital Extremes

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THE ADDAMS FAMILY 2 | Marketing Toolkit

Production Assistant: Storyboards, Animation, Lighting, Compositing, Post/Audio

First professional job I ever worked on as a contract Production Assistant. Over the course of this project, I was serving in a coordinator role for several back-end departments and was offered a full time position!

ADDAMS FAMILY 2

MGM / Cinesite

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