Bert Van Brande Email & Phone Number

Vancouver, Canada Area

Animation is our passion.We live, breathe and love animation.3D Features, Series, Cinematics, Ride Movies, AR/VR.Top talent, brilliant creative, cutting-edge technology.On time. On budget.We are a culture, team and pipeline ready for the creative process. Studio opening August 1st, 1128 Homer Street Vancouver, B.C V6B 6M5, Canada

Worldwide, California Based.

CG Consultancy - Freelance VFX Supervisor for various clients. Currently pre-production in LA and starting up a CG-feature in Vancouver.June 2016 - March 2017: Universal Studios: VFX-Supervision Minion Mayhem RIde movie.April 2015 - July 2016 Annapurna Pictures, West-Hollywood. VFX-Supervision Sausage Party.Jan-Mar 2015: Original Force Nanjing: Setting up pipeline for CG-features. Focus on Modeling and Layout processes, technology and pipeline. Standardization and automation of Maya workflows. Integration with Shotgun and RV. Setting up Qube! Renderfarm processes. Nuke Matte painting projection workflows.Sep-Dec 2014: Patchwork Entertainment Burbank / Original Force Nanjing, China: On-site Consultancy Photo-real character rendering for game trailer and CG-feature Production Pipeline consulting: on-site analysis, structure and process review, technical review.June-August 2014: Duncan Studio/ Disney Imagineering: Digital Supervision on Snowwhite project for Disneyland Shangai

Pasadena, Dallas, Osaka

VFX-Supervisor at Duncan Studio and Reel Fx for Univeral Studio/Illumination Entertainment for the 4' 60fps ride movie projected on a 76ft tall Omnimax dome and related shorts. Taking care of exceptional quality of the imagery for demanding projections.

Pasadena

Developed new technology and pipeline to render cg-animations for projection on moving animatronic characters for a successful yet unnamed test project. Stay tuned for future updates.

California And Vancouver, Bc

VFX-Supervision on "Sausage Party", an R-rated animated CG-feature for Annapurna Pictures, CG produced at Nitrogen Studios, Vancouver.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area, Texas And Santa-Monica, California

Production Technology Leadership for CG-feature production. Led the Production Technology department in redesigning the Production Pipeline for "The Book of Life". Building on a solid software development platform, introducing physically based lighting, a database driven pipeline, cache-management, new texture/lookdev workflows, color accurate pipeline and review systems, improved renderfarm processes.

Pasadena, Ca

CG Supervisor "Despicable Me Ride" Universal-IlluminationVFX Supervisor "Chilly" Short

Culver City, Ca

sr. CG Supervisor Alice in WonderlandSupervised front end pipeline and character rigging during start-up of the show. Developed new techniques and methods for this stereoscopic hybrid VFX-CG feature. Supervised lighting and compositing teams, finalling close to 300 shots.CG Supervisor - Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.Supervised front-end development including a new variation system to streamline creation and management of variations of characters and props used mostly for crowd scenes.CG Supervisor - Surf's Up Setup the show pipeline, including new methods to accelerate in scene display of large environments and real-time playback of animation to enable real-time capture of a hand-held camera. Supervised lighting team, bringing shots to final.Pipeline Supervisor - Monster House.Pipeline Supervisor - The Polar Express.

Ghent, Belgium

Started in '97 as an application engineer, introducing Maya in Europe, Middle-East and Africa. Focus on character animation and pipeline.Taught first users and trained and certified Maya trainers, accelerating the acceptance of Maya in the animation industry. As a consulting services engineer helped film and games studios across Europe to implement a Maya centric pipeline. Managed a team of 15 application engineers, consultants and trainers across Europe. Presented and taught Master classes at Siggraph and main European events. Developed the first automated character rigging script 'skeletonWorks'. Downloaded 24,000 in the first 3 months.