Cole O'brien
Principal Technical Artist at Respawn Entertainment
Glendale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCole O'brien is a Principal Technical Artist with 11 years in games, currently shaping animation pipelines and tooling at Respawn Entertainment from Glendale, CA. He blends hands-on technical animation, rigging and camera work with tool development—publishing an open-source animation utility (animSketch) and maintaining a public portfolio. His background includes work on Rock Band cut scenes and DLC at Harmonix and technical animation roles at Avalanche Studios, demonstrating a mix of production artistry and engineering discipline. Known for solving pipeline bottlenecks, he translates creative needs into practical tools that accelerate teams and improve asset quality.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
BFA Animation Animation, BFA Animation Animation at Massachusetts College of Art and Design
English
Github Skills (3)
java3
cli2
cpp1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
obriencole11/rigloo
May 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:1 release, 72 commits, 59 pushes in 3 months
obriencole11/obriencole11.github.io
May 2017 - Dec 2018
Contributions:127 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 7 months
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