"I’m Santiago Solarte, a Creative and Animation Director. Through my studio, I lead graphic design, animation projects and collaborate with a network of top-tier artists to deliver exceptional work for games, films, brands and agencies."
WHAT OOPHAGA DOES?
ANIMATION DIRECTION
Using Maya, Unreal Engine, Nomad Sculpt, Blender and other softwares to develop and create concepts to final polished animations for your company or project.
CREATING STORIES
METAHUMAN
Bring Your Characters to Life with Production Ready Unreal Engine Animation
Transform your vision into captivating cinematic experiences. I combine motion capture with keyframe polish animation to deliver believable, emotion driven performances.
From initial concept and previs to lighting and final renders.
MY EXPERIENCE
PROJECTS WORKED ON
I have collaborated as Director, Lead and Senior for these projects, in the fields of animation, previz and film shot designer. Guiding Directors from concept to final delivery.
WORKED WITH
COMPANIES LIKE
PURPLE PUPPET
I consult for diverse companies as Animation Director and Product Owner. Developing powerful new tools that create a fluent and organic connection between Blender, Unreal Engine and Unity. Crafting high-end facial and body rigs.
THE WITCHER 4
Working with CDPROJEKT Red contributing to The Witcher 4 as Expert Animator implementing and animating Creatures and Monsters for the game.
METAHUMAN
Contribution to Metahuman Creator 2.0 & Machine Learning Integration: Creative vision, spearheading real-time digital human’s animation pipeline development
GHOST RECON
Cinematic & Dialogue Animation: Bringing life to cinematics and dialogue scenes through mocap and keyframe animation techniques, particularly focusing on facial expressions.
DETECTIVE PIKACHU
Transformed storyboard concepts into engaging 3D action shots, contributing to the film's narrative impact and visual richness.
BATTLEFIELD 1
Cinematic and Gameplay animation. Focus from concept and delivered melee combat animations for 1st and 3rd person views.
THE WITCHER 3
Contributed to Geralt's iconic movements and combat systems through comprehensive motion capture and keyframe animation (swordplay, signs, crossbow, fistfights) to achieve fluid and satisfying gameplay.
Bring Stories to Life
READY TO CREATE ANIMATION