andy buecker
Co-Owner of Zoogloo LLC, Andy has been part of the digital visual effects industry for nearly 12 years. Prior to the formation of Zoogloo, his most recent adventure was as a Lead Character Technical Director at Industrial Light and Magic in San Francisco, where he met his current partner Greg. While at ILM, he developed character rigs and wrote numerous tools for the rigging team, including a motion capture retargeting pipeline. His work is included on such films as Van Helsing, Star Wars Episode 3, The Island, War of the Worlds, Chicken Little, Jarhead, and Pirates of the Caribbean 2
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Before enjoying his stay at ILM, he worked as a freelance artist in New York City with the talented folks at Quietman creating computer generated imagery on national commercial spots for Oral B, Brawny, Pringles, Downy, and Truth.
Andy's career started off in the video game industry working on characters and immersive environments for The 9, a Tribeca Interactive title, Learning to Read on the Promenade, an endearing children's educational game for Caps, the popular Test Drive Offroad 2 and Jack Nicklaus Golf 5 for Accolade, and Jack Nicklaus Golf 6 for Hypnos Entertainment.
After a 5 year run in video game industry, he became a Senior Animator at Avid|Softimage supporting clients on location during the initial releases of XSI, developing tools and content for customers and internal productions, and played a role on the pre-sales team for attracting potential customers.
Andy has also been employed as an instructor for graduate and under-graduate computer graphics studies at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco teaching courses in character design and development and 3D software classes.
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