PERSONAL INFORMATION
Name: Tal Hershkovich
Currently living in: Berlin Germany
Mobile: (0049) 0157 84323851
Email: dancingshapes @ gmail . com
WORK EXPERIENCE
Freelance character animator and a 3D Artist working for various clients and employers such as:
2021
Trixter – Working as a Rotomation Artist on films such as:
Falcon and the winter soldier, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings and other unannounced projects
Datagen – Animation and Motion capture cleanup
Ground Studios – Character animation for a TV Spot
2017 – 2020
RiseFX – 3D animator working on VFX shots for feature films and series such as:
West World, Kingdoms of Fire, Artemis Fowl, Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw, Babylon Berlin Season 3 and The King’s Man.
Animation Layers addon – Developed with python a commercial add-on for Blender, available at https://blendermarket.com/products/animation-layers
Be-Bots – 3D Product Visualization
Yoram Productions, Israel – 3D Character artist and animator for a commercial
Key Film, Netherlands – Creature animation and 3D artist for a live action film (not announced yet)
Moyo Productions, Israel – Character animation and CG Generalist for an instructional film, and for the series “Limbobo”
Baby Giant Hollyberg, Germany – Creature animation for the film “Spreewaldkrimi“
Pitchipoy, Israel – Character Animation for the film “The Boy Who Painted a Donkey Blue”, and for the TV series “Ulay Pil”.
Madhat, Germany – Animation for a Mercedes VR project
Lost The Game Studio, Germany – Animation for the games “Schlag den Star”,
and “Wer weiss den so was”.
Ragtag Studio, USA – Cut out animation for the game “Ray’s the dead”
Shuki Gamliel (Animator), Israel – Rigging
XnTouch, Israel – Character Rigging, modeling and texturing
2015 – 2016
Talit Communications, Israel – 2D Animation (cut-out)
CET, Israel – Modeling, texturing rigging and animation
MindCET, Israel – Animation Sean James Herron, Scotland – Animation and rigging
Blackboard Studios, Israel – Character animation
Big Balloon Animation, Israel – Character animation
Aureate Films, USA – Animation and props modeling
Moyo Productions, Israel – 3D Character Generalist and animator
Tasty Pixel, Germany – Rigging and animation (2D)
David Monteiro (Animator), Germany – Rigging
Top Farmers, Germany – 3D Artist / Motion graphics
2013 – 2014
Pixomondo (Berlin and Hamburg), Germany – Character animation
ByteRockers, Germany – Character animation
Gamblify, Denmark – Character animation
Technion Research and Development Foundation, Israel – Rigging for mocap
Picaro / Massmedia, Denmark – Character animation
Pitchipoy, Israel – Character animation
The Center for Educational Technology, Israel – 3D Character artist and animator
Talit communications, Israel – Character animation
Vida systems, USA – Technical animation
URCHN – Working on the open source film “Wires for Empathy“ as an Animator and setting up crowd simulations using Blender`s game engine.
2009 – 2012
ByteRockers , Germany – Employed as a character animator and a rigger for games.
Eveimages, Germany – Crowd simulation for architecture visualization.
Mackevision, Germany – Animation and rigging.
PitchiPoy Productions, Israel – Freelance animator.
2005 – 2008
Primus design group, Israel – Working as a 3D Generalist on commercials and TV shows.
PitchiPoy Productions, Israel – Employed as a 3D animator on various TV productions.
COMPUTER SKILLS
Maya, Blender, 3D Studio Max, Python, Adobe Photoshop, Premiere and After Effects. Specialized with Blender as a 3D generalist.
Finished Rice university’s python online course.
3d printing environment.
LANGUAGES
Hebrew – native speaker / English – fluent / Deutsch – good
Tal Hershkovich Portfolio 