Wilhelm Ogterop
25+ Years Industry Exp
New Tutor
Gameplay & Character Animation

Wilhelm Ogterop

Coaching Rates: £100/hr

Wilhelm Ogterop is a veteran game animator with 25+ years of experience across AAA studios including Raven Software, Dambuster Studios and Traveller's Tales. He has shipped titles like Call of Duty, Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth and the LEGO franchise. He also co-authored a book on Unreal Engine 5 character animation and is passionate about Blender.

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Raven Software Deep Silver Traveller's Tales Eurocom Entrada Interactive Instinct Games

Core Coaching Topics

Gameplay Animation Locomotion, combat, mocap cleanup and FPV weapon animations for AAA games

Locomotion, combat, mocap cleanup and FPV weapon animations for AAA games

Cinematic & Cutscene Animation Real-time cinematics, camera work and performance-driven storytelling.

Real-time cinematics, camera work and performance-driven storytelling.

Stylised & Cartoony Animation Bringing appeal, exaggeration and personality to character work.

Bringing appeal, exaggeration and personality to character work.

Blender Switching to Blender for animators and making your own tools in Blender

Switching to Blender for animators and making your own tools in Blender

Animation Reviews Review of animations and showreels

Review of animations and showreels

Meet Wilhelm Ogterop

Wilhelm Ogterop is a veteran character animator with over 30 years of industry experience, spanning 20+ game titles since the mid-1990s. Having served as a Lead Character Animator at three different game studios, he now operates his own small studio, Melowilo Character Animation. Based out of a scenic village in Bulgaria, the studio delivers remote contract work for global projects of all scales while developing its own internal indie game.

Interested in modern animation workflows, Wilhelm is the co-author of the Amazon #1 bestseller, Unreal Engine 5 Character Creation, Animation, and Cinematics. After successfully transitioning his studio’s primary pipeline from Maya to Blender, he authored several specialized animation add-ons for the platform.  He champions Blender as a democratic counter-movement against technofeudalism, dedicated to teaching others how to have fun animating in an open-source world.

Passionate about education, Wilhelm has lectured throughout his career and pioneered the first 3D animation course at the Open Window Art Academy in South Africa during its foundational years. His diverse portfolio includes work on some major franchises such as: Call of Duty: Black Ops III, Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare,  Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2, Deadspace Extraction, Homefront: The Revolution, LEGO Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth and more.

Wilhelm Ogterop

Wilhelm Ogterop

Gameplay & Character Animation
Coaching Rate: £100.00 / hr
Availability: Slots Available
Experience: 25+ Years AAA
Coached: New Tutor

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Mentorship Packages Available

Most Popular

One Hour

£100 session

Once, for 1 hour. Book the day and time that suits you.

  • 1-on-1 individual session
  • Showreel review, tips & tricks
  • Video recording of each session

One Week-Long Coaching

£180 / total

1h twice over a week (2 hours total). Book the days and times that suit you.

  • 1-on-1 individual session
  • Showreel review, tips & tricks
  • Video recording of each session

One Month-Long Coaching

£320 / total

1 hour a week over a month (4 hours total). Book the days and times that suit you.

  • 1-on-1 individual session
  • Showreel review, tips & tricks
  • Video recording of each session

One Month-Long Coaching - Intensive

£600 / total

1h twice over a week for 4 weeks (8 hours total). Book the days and times that suit you. Intensive 1-on-1 Training over a month.

  • 1-on-1 individual session
  • Showreel review, tips & tricks
  • Video recording of each session

Short 1-on-1 Showreel Review

£60 / total

1x 30 mins session to review your showreel form a lead game animators point of view.

  • 1-on-1 individual sessions

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