Barbara Karolina Bernad Personal Information Nationality: Hungarian Email: barbara.bernad@gmail.com Mobile: +44 (0) Location: London, United Kingdom Professional Skills 12 years in the Games Industry, working on AAA 3rd person titles. Demonstrated ability to lead multi-discipline teams Organize and schedule complex projects involving multiple countries and teams. Liaise with writers, marketing teams and external creative teams to deliver the best possible product. Direct all artistic departments, cast actors, organize logistics and deal with budget. Personal Strengths Excellent organizational and strong problem solving skills Strong sense of style and articulate visual development. Exceptional attention to detail Comfortable managing teams with different cultural background through multiple languages, cultures and time zones Able to communicate at all levels with both technical and non-technical personnel Relentless self-motivator, who always strives for the best in delivery content as in working practices Helping junior members of the team to achieve their professional goals and manage their expectations to fit their skill sets Professional History 2010
UTV-Ignition (London, United Kingdom)
Lead Animator rd Lead and schedule the animation/tech art team to deliver a 3 person action game demo in 4 months. Supervised all visual story telling aspects. Directed Motion Capture and Voice Talent recordings Heavy involvement with game mechanics, metrics and character design 2007-2010
Crytek (Frankfurt, Germany)
Lead Animator /External Technical Liaison Lead of animators and technical artists for Crytek's first foray into 3rd person adventure External support, consulting both onsite and offsite to provide input for pipelines and technical solutions. Companies supported during that time include: Platinum Games; Valhalla Games; James Cameron's Lightstorm Entertainment ; Maverick (Crysis2 trailer) Siggraph 2008 Speaker for Autodesk: Animation Production Pipeline at Crytek Supervised visual storytelling and directed Motion Capture recordings.

1999-2007

IO Interactive A/S (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Director of Photography and Lead Animator Hitman 5: Director of Photography (PC, Xbox360, PS3) Devised a new way of using in game cameras inspired from film cinematography: Defined the vision and created the necessary samples. Kane & Lynch: Dead Men: Senior Cutscene Animator (PC, Xbox360, PS3) Brought in for the last 6 months of the project to ensure the successful completion of all cutscenes Designed, animated cutscenes. Did the lighting work on all main cutscenes. Hitman Blood Money Lead Animator (PC,PS2, Xbox, Xbox360) Directed, lit, animated and wrote dialog for the cutscenes. Directed and organized mocap sessions across the UK and Denmark, including casting, sorting contracts, organizing flights (with weapons!) and controlling budget. Handled all project management responsibilities for 10 people. Coordinated the work of a Chinese outsourcing company to deliver environment art for cutscenes Hitman Contracts Senior Animator (PC, PS2, Xbox) Freedom Fighters Senior Animator (PC, PS2, Xbox, GC) Hitman2-Silent Assassin Animator (PC, PS2, Xbox, GC) Hitman Codename 47 Animator (PC) Designed, Storyboarded, animated and optimized cut scenes. Created trailers for both trade shows, TV and cinemas. Organized and directed Motion Capture shootings. Education 1998-2000 1994-1999 1990-1994 Software 3DSMax, Maya, Motion Builder VSS, AlienBrain, PerForce Adobe Photoshop, After FX, Premier CryEngine, UDK Hansoft, Jira, Bugzilla Microsoft Office Languages Hungarian (native) Fluent English Good Danish Danmarks Designskole, Department of New Media 3D Animation MA Visual Communication Art, Hungarian University of Art and Design Secondary School of Fine and Applied Arts, Hungary