Eric Luhta
Senior Gameplay Animator
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolEric Luhta is a senior gameplay animator with nine years of professional experience crafting character performance for games and film, currently shaping combat animation on Gears of War: E-Day at The Coalition. He combines hands-on animation and pipeline tooling (including Python/Maya tools) with leadership roles from lead animator to studio animation director, having guided animation vision on titles like Minecraft Legends and Age of Empires IV. As an instructor at AnimSchool and former industry mentor, he’s equally committed to teaching fundamentals of appeal and body mechanics while pushing studio workflows forward. His background in film scoring and jazz piano hints at a strong sense of timing and musicality that informs his animation sensibility. A hobbyist coder and musician who proudly serves a French bulldog, he brings a practical blend of creative craft, technical curiosity, and team mentorship to complex production pipelines.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
BM Jazz Studies, BM Jazz Studies at Bowling Green State UniversityGame Development, Game Development at University of Advancing TechnologyFilm Scoring Jazz Piano, Film Scoring Jazz Piano at Berklee College of MusicDiploma in Advanced Studies in Character Animation, Diploma in Advanced Studies in Character Animation at AnimationMentor.com
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Github Skills (4)
increment6
maya6
python6
cpp2
Github contributions (5)
splinecraft/anim_bake
May 2017 - Mar 2022
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 10 months
splinecraft/scalist
Sep 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:11 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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