Kenny Roy is the author of Finish Your Film! and Sam’s Teach Yourself Maya in 24 Hours — two of the most widely used animation production texts in the industry, with over 99 endorsements from working animators on LinkedIn. His animation career includes production work at Weta Digital on King Kong. He received Microsoft’s Gaming for Everyone Award in 2017 for his work on I, Hope, a title designed for children battling cancer and donated to GameChanger Charity. He currently runs November Games in New Zealand and has been designing and developing games professionally for over five years. He approaches Boss Fight animation from a unique position: someone who has thought deeply about both the craft of character movement and the game design systems that make combat encounters memorable.
Key credentials
- Author: Finish Your Film! and Sam’s Teach Yourself Maya in 24 Hours
- Animator — Weta Digital: King Kong
- Microsoft Gaming for Everyone Award, 2017
- Founder, November Games · 8,000+ LinkedIn followers in animation and games communities
What you’ll work on
- Animating a complete boss fight encounter — not a demo, a deliverable
- Understanding the relationship between character animation and combat game design
- Building the specific shot vocabulary that games studios hire for