Introduction

Welcome

Hello, my name is Chuck Schotborgh Owner and founder of sumochuck.com

I'm so happy to share my gifts and talents with you today. Please let me know how I can help, as you peruse this site. In creating sumochuck.com, my vision has been to built an environment of discovery and innovation for both my children and friends. This site was originally built so my children could learn some of the skills of the trade from there father.

About Me

Past Technology Sectors

In my past life I built (designed) superstructures in San Francisco , Prisons in California, Bridges in Arizona. I have work in the industry Nano technologies and Delectric etching machines that created the devices we use today.

As I rode the dot com wave in the 90's working in or with 22 startups, while holding down a careers in architecture, film, game design development, ad agencies, fortune 500 companies like cisco, IBM, even worked with Nano technologies and dielectric etch industry that created the chips our smart phones or devices use.

A decade of wrangling 2D / 3D art, animation, slot game design, video game development, multi-player game designs, educational psychology games, casino gaming, new technologies, and PC game development.

5 Years of both TV commercials and film advertising agency experience.

TV broadcasting, executive briefing development, multimedia development, graphic design with web applications, interactive DVD, radio commercials. 7 Years of the web, UX design, a decade of software experience, Web portals, UX, UI Visual Parts, (IDE) design and development.

Here we are we have reached 2019 were the buzz words are AI, Machine learning, Autonomous cars, and Unity are common.

We all know the world does not work as it should, especially when it comes to working with antiquated technologies. When there are challenges of both new and old, technologies or ideas. It is important to try to develop proven future solutions, we have learned from the old.

For The future

I'm always looking to help a fellow company, organization, or individual succeed in technological advancements, art, motion, automation, and Experiencing numerous high tech industries over a few decades has given me an edge in both insight and technological expertise.

I have been keeping my skills sharp, honing my broad skills in areas of machine learning, deep learning and dabbling in artificial intelligence. Pursuing development Alexa SkillSets with voice control and modal voice ti integrate this technology into my game developing mechanisms and components. For any industry these days to see if I can help contribute to your technology visions in anyway.

I'm currently open for hire as consultant or a technology advisor, in the areas of animation, art tools, automation in communication arts, training developers, creative types and especially the young.

In my downtime I decided to share my knowledge with the world by created this website / mobile search engine, and the content herein to hopefully help people find answers quickly. Sumochuck.com to pass onto my Kids and for their next generation. I do this because, I believe in the next generations whole heartedly.

So what does this all mean, consistently looking for new ways to to solve to help create viable rapid solutions for people I network in the technology spaces with.

So what have I done during my recent career?

One thing that is for sure is that I can tell you story after story of what I have failed at, in my career as a technical artist/ animator, developer but my successes have almost balanced out the negatives and probably equaled in being fortunate to work some pretty darn cool technology advancements.

What I'm known for in the gaming industry are for co-developing game mechanics and game play for (6) well known movie title casino games, will training up (inspiring) 15 technical artist in 15 weeks, in the summer of 2013, resulting in legendary industry record earnings for Aristocrat Technologies along with helping shift the industry under the leadership of Joe Kaminkow and Kurt Larsen. All this was done by, juggling both On-the-fly research, design and development of game mechanics, architecture and engineering. We created 2 towering platforms, which stand 9 ft tall. conjunction developing thriving team culture of winning ways for 15 awesome technical artists.

Technical Artist Plug in inventions: Invented 3 patent game methods and game controllers. Developed multiple custom machine learning plug-in tools for validations in checking artwork pixel dimensions, proprietary game syntax, code traversing, code patterns, and animation sequences via custom UI Adobe ™After Effects JSX extensions for creating JIRA communications and bug reports via a single source game file. A method of automating a rebuilding of game components from legacy proprietary game files. Developed multiple plug-ins that rapidly generate components necessary for rapid game production deliveries meeting the business expectations of excellent quality.

Major Game Titles:

Contributed to major slot game titles including:

Game of Thrones™ HBO

Gary Joseph Penacho -Game Designer,Thomas Tuomey- Principle Artist, Kurt Larsen -Studio VP , Charles Schotborgh- Lead Technical Artist, Adam Pippin, Ryan Shawn Carr

Sex and the City™Big Diamonds HBO -IGT International Gaming Technologies, Inc.

Batman 1966™ Adam West- Warner Bros Entertainment - Aristocrat Technologies, Inc.

Gary Joseph Penacho -Game Designer, Principle Artist:Thomas Tuomey- Principle Artist, Principle Engineer Kahn Vu,Senior Illustrator: Matthew Smith, Animation: Sarah Dooley Artist: Daniel Andover, Effects Eric Drucker, Lead Technical Artist: Dave Little, Lead Technical Artist Chuck Schotborgh, Technical Artist Nick Cook , Eric P. Winston, Cash John Imutan, Lingjiang Cheng and much love and support from many other brilliant Secret Sauce Studio team members missed in credits.

Amanda Flock,Clint Batac, C'era Oliveira, Tricia Tylman

Superman the Movie 1978™ -Christopher Reeves -Warner Bros Entertainment - Aristocrat Technologies, Inc.

Game Designer -Bradley Hendricks, Principle Artist- Damien Burczyk, Principle Engineer- Steve Melancon, Consulting Engineer- Jordan Strub and Senior Engineer- Steven Rude, Senior Illustrator- Matthew Smith, Animation-Sarah Dooley Artist-Daniel Andover, Animation Effects-Eric Drucker, Lead Technical Artist-Chuck Schotborgh, Technical Artist-Joey Paraiso, Technical Artist-Nick Cook, Chief Innovation Officer -Joe Kaminkow, SS Studio Vice President-Kurt Larsen, Art Director-Cash Imutan, Mark Cass- Principle Engineer, Francis Styck - Principle Engineer. Director of Engineering-Clifton Dunn and much love and support from many other brilliant Secret Sauce Studio team members missed in credits.

Wonder Wheels platform for Aristocrat Technologies, Inc. Featuring dynamically bold Jackpot Wins and Mega Symbols. Filled with video footage of Margo Kidder and Christopher Reeves from the original movie.

Created a big credit pick Bonus and the worlds first Kryptonite "Lex Luthor" freegames filled with scenes with Gene Hackman playing as the dastardly Lex Luthor.

Wonder Wheels platform was designed in 15 weeks with the wheel and video interaction developed the week before the 2013 G2E Tradeshow. The Cave of Solitude Pick Bonus
was the most complex interaction which used a unique animation reveal method that we invented.

Wonder Wheels engineering developed a unique method of reveal that the technical artist and Lead artist presented a solution for creating a a sort of reveal shader on an antiquated platform.

The Big Bang Theory™ Warner Bros Entertainment - Aristocrat Technologies, Inc.

Game Designer -Bradley Hendricks, Principle Artist- Finch Patrick A, Principle Engineer- Steve Melancon, Consulting Engineer- Jordan Strub and Senior Engineer- Steven Rude, Senior Illustrator- Matthew Smith, Animation-Sarah Dooley Artist-Daniel Andover, Animation Effects-Eric Drucker, Lead Technical Artist-Chuck Schotborgh, Technical Artist-Joey Paraiso, Technical Artist-Nick Cook, Chief Innovation Officer -Joe Kaminkow, SS Studio Vice President-Kurt Larsen, Art Director-Cash Imutan, Mark Cass- Principle Engineer, Francis Styck - Principle Engineer. Director of Engineering-Clifton Dunn and much love and support from many other brilliant Secret Sauce Studio team members missed in credits.

Man of Steel™ Warner Bros Entertainment - Aristocrat Technologies, Inc.

A Christmas Story™ Warner Bros Entertainment

Britney Spears™ Sony Music Entertainment-RCA

Bradley Hendricks, Britta Nauta-Larsen. Alex Gansert, Francis Styck

Elvira™Queen B Productions

Bettie Page™

Tarzan the Ape Man™ Tarzan® and Tarzan of the Apes™ owned by Edward Rice Burroughs, Inc.

...plus 22 other famous game titles within the past decade. Contributed to 106 cloned titles in this 2018.

The past decade in Gaming Gambling Design and Development

For the last decade I spent most of my in the gaming industry attempting, and challenge that industry to come out of the 1990's.

With in the Gaming Industry, I have co-invented 3 patents 2 Publications. I maintain legal status with a gaming license (gaming card) to build class 3 in the state of Nevada and Class2 in the united states and world wide. I'm competent to equip and train technical game mechanism to artist and animators world wide. I'm a equipped to design and develop Land based Class 3, Class 2, Lottery, mobile/ web, and for new physical or electronic methods of gaming in a gaming systems.

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Patent number: 10249141

METHOD OF GAMING, A GAMING SYSTEM AND A GAME CONTROLLER

Abstract:

The present invention relates to a gaming machine, methods of gaming and gaming systems. The gaming system comprises: a first video display; a second video display; and a game controller. The game controller is arranged to: select a plurality of symbols from a symbol set for display on the first video display and the second video display; and evaluate a symbol subset comprising one or more of the plurality of symbols to determine whether to make an award. The number of symbols of the symbol subset is higher than a number of symbols in the symbol subset evaluated by the game controller in a previous game instance.

Type: Grant

Filed:

September 29, 2015

Date of Patent:

April 2, 2019

Assignee:

Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited

Inventors:

Gary Joseph Penacho, Casey Lyle Condro, Thomas Tuomey, Kurt Larsen, Charles Schotborgh, Adam Pippin, Ryan Shawn Carr

Patent number: 9953483

METHOD OF GAMING, A GAMING SYSTEM AND A GAME CONTROLLER

Abstract:

An electronic method of gaming in a gaming system. The method comprises displaying, on a display, an evaluation area comprising a plurality of columns of symbol display positions divided between first and second gaming instances by a border such that symbol display positions on one side of the border are allocated to the first game instance and symbol display positions on the other side of the border are allocated to the second game instance; upon a border change condition being met, adjusting, using a game controller, the allocation of symbol positions between the first game instance and the second game instance so that the border between the first and second game instances changes; and determining, using the game controller, whether to make an award in respect of at least one of the first and second game instances based on symbols displayed at the symbol positions after the border changes.

Type:

Grant

Filed:

September 24, 2015

Date of Patent:

April 24, 2018

Assignee:

ARISTOCRAT TECHNOLOGIES AUSTRALIA PTY LIMITED

Inventors:

Gary Joseph Penacho, Casey Lyle Condron, Thomas Tuomey, Kurt Larsen, Charles Schotborgh, Adam Pippin, Ryan Shawn Carr

Publication number: 20160189471

METHOD OF GAMING, A GAMING SYSTEM AND A GAME CONTROLLER

Abstract:

The present invention relates to a gaming machine, methods of gaming and gaming systems. The gaming system comprises: a first video display; a second video display; and a game controller. The game controller is arranged to: select a plurality of symbols from a symbol set for display on the first video display and the second video display; and evaluate a symbol subset comprising one or more of the plurality of symbols to determine whether to make an award. The number of symbols of the symbol subset is higher than a number of symbols in the symbol subset evaluated by the game controller in a previous game instance.

Type:

Application

Filed:

September 29, 2015

Publication date:

June 30, 2016

Inventors:

Gary Joseph Penacho, Casey Lyle Condron, Thomas Tuomey, Kurt Larsen, Charles Schotborgh, Adam Pippin, Ryan Shawn Carr

Publication number: 20160093147

METHOD OF GAMING, A GAMING SYSTEM AND A GAME CONTROLLER

Abstract:

An electronic method of gaming in a gaming system. The method comprises displaying, on a display, an evaluation area comprising a plurality of columns of symbol display positions divided between first and second gaming instances by a border such that symbol display positions on one side of the border are allocated to the first game instance and symbol display positions on the other side of the border are allocated to the second game instance; upon a border change condition being met, adjusting, using a game controller, the allocation of symbol positions between the first game instance and the second game instance so that the border between the first and second game instances changes; and determining, using the game controller, whether to make an award in respect of at least one of the first and second game instances based on symbols displayed at the symbol positions after the border changes.

Type:

Application

Filed:

September 24, 2015

Publication date:

March 31, 2016

Inventors:

Gary Joseph Penacho, Casey Lyle Condron, Thomas Tuomey, Kurt Larsen, Charles Schotborgh, Adam Pippin, Ryan Shawn Carr

Publication number: 20160093150

METHOD OF GAMING, A GAMING SYSTEM AND A GAME CONTROLLER

Abstract:

An electronic gaming machine comprising a video display and a game controller arranged to select a plurality of symbols from a symbol set for display on the video display, evaluate the symbols displayed on the display to determine whether to initiate a symbol lock event, and upon initiating a symbol lock event, identify symbols which contribute to an award configuration, control the display to lock identified symbols, and updating remaining symbols in the display.

Type:

Application

Filed:

September 29, 2015

Publication date:

March 31, 2016

Inventors:

Gary Joseph Penacho, Casey Lyle Condron, Thomas Tuomey, Kurt Larsen, Charles Schotborgh, Adam Pippin, Ryan Shawn Carr

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