Hunter Wahl

Responsible for maintaining active list of assigned stages and shots, responding to all animator and puppet needs for a given shot, identifying aspects of puppets that need repair or alterations in areas including: costuming, silicone paint, silicone repair, hair shaping and finishing, metal armature tensioning, integration of external rigging, replacement of consumable components (ie: hands, hair tendrils, etc), additional aging-pass paintwork on costumes and accessories, developing attachment methods for accessories, and other more specific tasks for certain shots or characters.

Clean up of 3D printed assets including sanding and priming, painting assets with lacquer-based spray application and fine detail acrylic brush work, clear coating assets with different dull and gloss coats to achieve specific spectral finish, silicone mold making and casting for production of assets, silicone painting and color-matching, wire and ball-socket armature fabrication, photo and vector artwork generation/manipulation, running CNC plotter cutter for foams and vinyl sheets, metalwork on lathe and endmill, soldering, vacuum forming various thermoplastics, dye sublimation of fabric, urethane casting, woodworking for building tool jigs and support structures, sourcing chemicals, paints, and other substances required for niche project applications, etc.

Processing 3D printed assets and painting them to strict camera-ready guidelines, mixing paints to color match existing color selections or pre-production artwork, silicone painting puppet appendages, eyeball casting and milling/finishing, silicone mold making and casting, metalwork in brass and steel, armature design and building

Processing material requests for industrial grade SLS 3D printers, setup and execution of build operations, removal and cleaning of printed parts, secondary finishing operations on printed parts, assembly of components per customer requirement and standards, quality control operations per AS9100D ISO 9001:2015 compliance, printer maintenance scheduling and execution, facility planning and workflow development, etc.

Multi-step processing of 3D printed assets (cleaning, sanding, clear-coating), assembly of RP materials and custom hardware into stop-motion puppets, molding and casting custom eyeballs for puppets, laser cutting precision aligned components for RP assets, file preparation for waterjet and laser cutting projects, 3D design and engineering, tool creation and maintenance for specialized tasks, micro-TIG welding and soldering steel and brass armature components, on-set maintenance of RP assets (realignment, polishing, cleaning, tensioning, replacement), development of RP asset production processes for current and future films, interdepartmental coordination in puppet triage,etc.

Coordination with Fablab Director to create and promote programming, processing print requests and quoting potential 3D print jobs, running 3D printers at customer-desired specifications, data entry and financial processing, teaching courses in 3D design and in running the 3D printers to ages 7 and up, 3D printer maintenance and part ordering, consulting with community developers with design needs, outlining development schedules of current projects, production of CAD files for prototyping, sourcing with local businesses capable of fulfilling requirements for given projects outside of Fablab's scope, basic business planning and development.

Daily setup of 3D prints, fixing CAD models, measuring calibration parts, deriving floating scale factors (for all printing materials), quality control, record keeping via Shoptech's E2, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft Word, printer maintenance (and ordering of parts), customer relations, product design in Solidworks 2013/14, departmental meetings and workload management, 3D scanning, reverse parametric engineering (via scanned data and traditional measurements), secondary operations (painting, sanding, dyeing, hardware installation, etc), secondary operations development, marketing design, facilities maintenance, courier, facilities planning, etc.

While working here, I was responsible for coordinating with supervisors in dedicating a task flow for daily events, and then relaying the instructions to other employees in the department. Then I would engage in said tasks, resulting in the setup of banquet halls and meeting rooms as per guest specifications. Daily tasks would include setting up thousands of tables and chairs, property maintenance, equipment maintenance, audio visual equipment setup, customer engagement, guest relations, laundry, etc.

I assisted with shop reorganization, set design (with Google Sketchup), prop building, set building/painting, personal assistant work on set, purchasing, transportation, and shop maintenance.