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Bristol, England, United Kingdom

Bristol, United Kingdom

Heading up the 3D team within Aardman's CG/VFX department.

Bristol

Project supervision, lighting, lookdev, plus effects work on a wide range of partner content productions. Clients include Google, UN, and BBC. Also managed project to overhaul CG department pipeline, coordinating the planning and implementation of new Shotgun centric infrastructure.

Work on a range of commercials and feature film development projects for clients including Aardman Animations, Nine Acre Films, and FLFX.

Vancouver, Canada

CG sequence supervision on Universal's "R.I.P.D". Overseeing elaborate creature and environment work on roughly half of ImageEngine's allocated shots. Worked in close collaboration with sequence lighting-lead and production-coordinator to ensure delivery of approximately 100 lit and rendered shots.Following "R.I.P.D", supervised project to overhaul aspects.

CG Supervisor/Senior Lighter, Commercials Dept.Project supervision plus range of tasks for cg commercials department, includingoverhaul of fur look-dev system and leading the integration of new Vray based lightingpipeline.CG Supervisor, Features.Vfx pre-production and production for stopmotion feature “The Pirates!”.Involved in planning and development of.

Sydney, Australia

Lighting, shader development and various TD tasks on the films Superman Returns, TheLast Mimzy and Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix. Helped establish Houdinipipeline alongside using Maya, Renderman and Shake. Progressed to lead role, and wasinvolved in bidding and pitch process for several feature projects.

New Zealand

Shot lighting to help with the final production push on the Oscar winning King Kong.Worked on a variety of sequences using Maya, Renderman, Shake and in-house tools.

London, United Kingdom

Worked as a key member of the small MPC team producing a range of cg effects forWallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-rabbit. Oversaw the 3d pipeline, lighting andshader development. Completed complex growing fur and ‘mind-wave’ shots, and litseveral sequences using Maya, Renderman and in-house tools.

Mud effects and lighting for the mud-mimic sequence of The Brothers Grimm.Completed 3d work in Houdini and composited shots in Shake.

London, United Kingdom

Lighting and various TD tasks for Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban.

London, England, United Kingdom

London

Ba(Hons), Computer Animation, First Class

Activities and Societies: Internships at Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, and Framestore-CFC

Foundation, Distinction