Marc-Adrien Le Pape

- Design and develop a production-ready biped rig from scratch based on a matrix, implementing advanced matrix-driven control systems for clean, scalable, and animator-friendly deformations.

- Manage the entire rigging creation process, from skeletal structure and texturing strategy to final control rig delivery, ensuring compatibility with the entire production workflow.

- Intervene in several departments beyond rigging—supporting layout, rendering, lighting, and VFX teams to ensure technical consistency and visual quality throughout the project.

- Serve as the primary rigging lead on the production, making architectural decisions that impact the long-term maintainability of assets and animation efficiency.

- Simultaneously held the roles of Production Manager, Lead Rigger, Lead Layout Artist, Lead Set Dresser/Environment Artist, and Pipeline/Workflow Manager — one of the most extensive technical responsibilities ever seen in a student production of this scale.

- Designed and managed the entire production pipeline and naming conventions, which reduced inter-departmental errors and accelerated daily asset integration.

- Delivered all character rigs on schedule, ensuring animators had ready-to-use and user-friendly controls with optimal deformation quality.

- Served as the IT Lead for the 2024-2025 academic year, responsible for license management, render farm administration, network stability, and hardware maintenance — thereby ensuring the continuous operation of the team's infrastructure during production.

- Coordinated human resources within a multi-person team, organizing weekly meetings, regulating workload imbalances, and ensuring morale and productivity remained aligned with the production schedule.

- Created a wide range of Triassic creatures for a large-scale VFX project, covering various locomotion modes: bipedal, quadrupedal, aerial, and marine.

- Performed digital sculpting and retopology steps to achieve clean deformation meshes prior to the rigging phase.

- Built creature rigs for the Nothosaurus, Shastasaurus (body and skeleton), Lilien, Quianosaurus, Eudymorphodon, Pilot Fish, and Conodon — each requiring custom solutions for the skeleton and controls, tailored to vastly different anatomies.

- Collaborated closely with the modeling team to directly address topology issues, reducing revision cycles and ensuring production continuity.