Netflix Stories

My primary responsibilities on Netflix Stories revolved arounds this Character Creator.

Characters were originally made in Spine and came with a lot of bloat and limitations due to lack of documentation and understanding by those who remained to use the pipeline.

I redesigned the character pipeline with an engineer and an animator.  The new one...

• Was based in Maya (much wider knowledge base)

• Was built for modularity, separating as much as possible into different meshes so textures could be shared

• Included color mapping so clothing could be made white and cheaply colored for variety without bloating textures

• Included shader level layering so multiple textures could be stacked for even more variety with minimal textures, but still use minimal draw calls

To work with this pipeline

• Tools for quickly finding and assigning textures to custom data structures to build outfits, faces, etc.

• Tools for creating gradients and assigning them to data for use in coloring assets.

Once built, I ran the central team that managed shared content across multiple projects and built out new features as teams needed them, and delivered updates to the teams.