Hi! I'm Sam Durkin, and I am a character animator with experience in Games, Animated feature films, and TV. I co-created a short film in 2021 as my senior thesis at Ringling College, where I graduated with a BFA in Computer Animation, and where I found a love for storytelling through character animation and CG work.

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I am currently based in LA. My recent game experience was as a cinematic animator on Ember Lab's Kena: Scars of Kosmora AAA game. I have feature experience from Dreamworks (The Wild Robot, Kung Fu Panda 4, Ruby Gillman Teenage Kracken), as well as TV experience at ICON Creative, and Animschool's Mechwest TV Show.

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Proficient in Maya, Dreamworks’ Premo, Adobe Photoshop, Substance Painter, Premiere, Davinci Resolve, Lightroom, Procreate and Dreams, Syncsketch, Windows OS, Linux OS

Advanced-Basic Knowledge of Blender, Unity, Unreal, Perforce, ZBrush, Shotgrid/Flow, Jira, Nuke, Marvelous Designer

Art Skills Include Technical drawing, 2d/3d animation, 3d modeling, rigging, look development, compositing

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Interests: Sewing clothes, learning cantonese, bouldering, mahjong, and drawing caricatures​

Fears: Those people who dress up like statues and stand really still

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Email: samdurkinart@gmail.com