Bryan Brewer
Character Animator
3D Realms
Saturday February 21, 2009

Collin County Community College
2800 E. Spring Creek Parkway
Room c104
10 am – 12 pm

ABOSG is headed back to Collin College to welcome Bryan Brewer of 3D Realms as he discusses the motion capture pipeline for video games.

Bryan studied 3D animation at Collin County Community Collegewhile working as an Illustrator for Fasen Arts and Blue Line studios.

His first full time industry position was as a Storyboard Artist for DNA Productions in Irving, TX.  He began with the first season of the television show, The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius. The show’s popularity won itself an instant audience, several Annies over multiple seasons, and an Oscar nomination for an eventual feature film.

Bryan moved on to become a general 3D artist at CAT Studios.  He learned the entire pipe line of production by doing everything from storyboarding to being a render wrangler.  The challenge of working on films, television, and international and domestic commercials was just the beginning.

When an opportunity to enter the game industry fell in his lap, Bryan took a position as a 3D animator at Terminal Reality.  He worked on a Clive Barker game, Demonic.  The game was unfortunately canceled, but it was markedly canonized in the hilarious Happy Madison film, Grandma’s Boy.  He was also part of the team that helped secure TRI with the rights to the new Ghost Busters game.  During this time Bryanfreelanced as an animator for Reel FX on the movie Everyone’s Hero.
In late 2006 Bryanwas given the opportunity he couldn’t pass up.  He took a job at 3D Realms to work on Duke Nukem Forever.  He is now working on both sides of the motion capture pipeline, capturing and then editing all human characters for the game.