Summary
Parzival Röthlein is a Senior Rigger and Technical Director with over a decade of experience crafting body, face and creature rigs for major animated features and VFX films. Based in Vancouver, he blends hands-on rigging and modeling with tooling and pipeline coding—building self-testing rig builders, non-destructive workflows, and publish/sanity systems used across departments. His credits span studios like Cinesite, Netflix Animation, Wētā FX and Method Studios, and include work on high-profile projects from Transformers and Aquaman to animated features and TV series. Equally comfortable shaping face topology as designing rig automation, he brings a rare mix of artistic topology sense and 3D-math-driven engineering. Colleagues rely on him for robust, production-ready rigs and custom tools that accelerate animation and reduce revision cycles.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Technical Director, post-graduate course, Diploma, Technical Director, post-graduate course at Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science in Media, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science in Media at Hochschule Furtwangen
German, English