
Epic Games
US
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Tom Sanocki
Engineering Director, Characters for the Fortnite Ecosystem at Epic Games.
Formerly Engineering Director for Avatars at Roblox, Engineering Manager at Facebook AR/VR (Horizon Worlds) and CEO/founder of Limitless, VR startup building a platform for interactive characters in VR (acquired by Lytro).
Character/Cinematics Tech Art Lead at Bungie, working on realtime cinematics, cloth simulation, social spaces, and characters for Destiny.
11 years as a Character Lead with Pixar; master rigging and character simulation; co-designed and implemented Pixar's next-gen simulation pipeline; rig and master rigged a number of characters, including Mater in Cars and Kevin in Up.
VES award for Outstanding Character Animation in a Feature Animated Film (for Mater in Cars).
Inventor or co-inventor on 7 character-related patents; presentations at SIGGRAPH, GDC, Roblox Developers Conference.
IMDB profile: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2456062/
Work Experience
Pixar, Bungie, Lytro, Facebook AR/VR, Roblox, Epic GamesFilm Credits
Finding Nemo, Cars, Ratatouille, Up, Brave, Monsters University, Good Dinosaur (uncredited), Destiny 1 (game), Destiny 2 (game)Awards
VES award for Outstanding Character in an Animated Feature Film (Mater in Cars)Most Innovative VR experience from Cinefest (Gary the Gull)