Chris Stroh Email & Phone Number

Halifax, Canada Area

Oversee all technical aspects of the studio with the goal of building artist-focused workflows, while maintaining the quality and security required by clients.Pipeline• Build and manage efficient, artist-friendly pipelines through pre-production to final delivery.• Creation of custom python/javascript tools and integrations for ftrack / DCC applications (Toon Boom Harmony, Adobe)• Source control management with git (Bitbucket and GitHub).• Meet all client technical requirements.• Troubleshoot and solve production issues with crew.• Crew training through documentation and learning sessions.IT• Emphasis on providing secure solutions to adhere to client requirements and best practices, such as MPAA compliance.• Administer servers across many platforms - Windows Server, Linux (CentOS, Ubuntu Server, Debian), Synology.• Create and manage render farms (Toon Boom, Deadline).• Scripting - PowerShell, python, shell.• Active Directory (AD) / Azure Active Directory (AAD) Administration.• Configuration Management (ansible).• Manage a number of services (e.g. ToonBoom Database Server, AUSST, NextCloud).• Hypervisor management (XenServer/XCP-ng, Hyper-V).

Halifax, Nova Scotia

Responsible for evaluating and modifying studio pipelines, ensuring assets move in a consistent and efficient method into animation, and through until final delivery. I ensure projects hit the technical requirements as indicated by the client. To that end, I have created a number of scripts (Primarily JS/Python) to solve technical requirements.Additionally, I oversee both pre-production and post-production across multiple projects.

Halifax, Nova Scotia

"Pickle and Peanut" - Disney TVACompositor- Using AfterEffects and Photoshop to produce results that fit the style/feel of the production.- Blending Live Action, Multimedia and Animated assets seamlessly.- Using a large variety of techniques and methods (keying, tracking, rotoscoping, morphing, color correction etc.) to produce results in line with the vision of the creators.Scene Assembly Supervisor- Watch over a small team and coordinate deadlines in order to ensure the pipeline runs smoothly.- Creation of a number of scripts/tools (JS/Python) to increase working speed, both for the Assembly team as well as the entire studio, such as:• Photoshop script to organize, error-check and output Photoshop files in a format appropriate for ToonBoom, with naming conventions used in the ToonBoom background script (below).• ToonBoom script to automate importing and organizing of backgrounds, while automatically creating/configuring all blending modules as necessary.• Python application to scrape through ToonBoom stage files in a job, determine the correct number of frames in the latest version of a scene, and inform the user in cases where the "frames" folder does not contain the correct number of final frames. Support for automatic deletion/logging for excess frames. 3D Artist- Creation of all environmental assets.- Oversaw the studio-side of the production pipeline, coordinating artists as necessary.- Wrote MEL tools to automate portions of the workflow._______"Teen Titans GO!" - Warner Bros Animation (26x11min). Seasons 1/2- Compositing characters over backgrounds- Applying effects as needed onto characters, props, backgrounds and animated FX._______"Bravoman" - Bandai Namco (Shiftylook) (6x5min)- Compositing characters over backgrounds.- Implementing camera moves with environmental parallax and depth blur.- Creating appropriate FX where needed.

Nuke compositor - Episode 1- Keying greenscreen footage / Rotoscoping as necessary- Tracking characters and match-moving 3d backpacks onto them.- Compositing filmed characters over background plates.- Compositing 3d characters/backgrounds using a variety of passes (RGB lighting, Ambient Occlusion, zDepth etc.)- Creation of final lighting/effects onto shots to match the directors vision.

Halifax, Nova Scotia

3d Layout Artist for Mike the Knight, a Nelvana production (52x11min).- Translating 2d boards into a 3d space while maintaining continuity of characters, environments and props over the entirety of an episode.- Communication with the director to ensure his vision was accurately represented in the final layout.- Creation of tools to expedite the layout process (pose snapshot generator, as well as scripts to automate commonly performed procedures).

Halifax, Nova Scotia

LivGirls- Animated 2d/3d characters- Compositing characters over backgrounds- Creation of 2d pinwheel character builds (including the cleanup of artwork)- Implementing camera moves with environmental parallax and depth blur.Compositor for Carneys, a Huminah Huminah Animation pitch.- Compositing characters over backgrounds- Implementing camera moves with environmental parallax and depth blur.- Creating appropriate FX where needed.

Halifax, Nova Scotia

"Garth and Bev"25 episodes, broadcasted on RTE, cBeebies and BBC2.- Compositing characters over backgrounds- Implementing camera moves with environmental parallax and depth blur.- Creating appropriate FX where needed.Compositor for Tokyopop's "Riding Shotgun".6 minute teaser, recently released through Mondo Media.- Compositing characters over backgrounds- Implementing camera moves with environmental parallax and depth blur.- Creating appropriate FX where needed.