MARCUS KRAUTWURST

Technical artist and rigger with 17+ years shipping AAA titles across Crytek, Ubisoft, Blizzard, Sony, and EA DICE, specialising in character rigging, deformation systems, and animation pipeline. In 2022 I founded Monster Puppet Corporation, building a boutique studio that has since delivered rigging and technical art across 11+ projects for clients ranging from indie teams to AAA studios. I bridge the gap between art and engineering: able to own a character pipeline end-to-end, lead a team, and run the business behind it.

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Experience

02/2022 — Present

Hammenhög, Sweden Founder / Technical Director

Running a tech art studio of world-class developers. Clients include Theorycraft, Paradox, Probably Monsters, Hypixel, Darewise, Fundog.

04/2022 — 02/2023

Barcelona, Spain Principal Technical Animator

Unannounced project.

01/2021 — 03/2022

Stockholm, Sweden Senior Technical Artist

Battlefield 2042. Maya tools & plugins for character pipeline. Facial R&D.

01/2018 — 08/2021

Irvine, CA Senior Technical Artist I

World of Warcraft, Overwatch, unannounced. Pipeline tools, rigging, skinning, prototyping.

02/2017 — 12/2017

London, UK Principal Technical Animator

Blood & Truth (PSVR). Pipeline tools, rigging, skinning, facial, mocap.

08/2015 — 02/2017

London, UK Senior Technical Animator

Dawn of Titans. Character rigging, animation pipeline, morpheme animation trees.

08/2011 — 07/2015

Malmö, Sweden Lead Technical Animator

The Division. Managing team of 5. Rigging, animation, cinematics pipeline coordination.

10/2008 — 08/2011

Frankfurt, Germany Technical Artist

Crysis 2, Crysis 3, Crysis 1 Xbox 360 console conversion.

04/2007 — 08/2007

Bogengang GmbH

Berlin, Germany 3D Artist

Serious games / educational games. Modeling and texturing for Google Earth.

Skills & Expertise

Education & Personal