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Being a part of the incredible adventure of beginning a career in CG is my true passion. After many years, and while my former students are now working in the biggest CG company (Autodesk, Framestore, Illumination…), on the biggest productions (Despicable me, Harry Potter, …), I’m more and more involved in developing talents in this ever changing world.From the first step to master degree, I love sharing my knowledge, my experiences, and those from my ex-students.But it’s not enough to be a good teacher. Helping understanding CG needs a strong theorical background, the ability to understand how each company is working in a different way, how hot new technologies could change our jobs in 1 to 5 years (time to finish scolarity for students), and mixing all of this in an understandable way through motivating projects.Through my experience, I have been Stereoscopic TD then stereoscopic RnD, CG artist and Teacher for several companies in parallel of being Expert Photometry for the french Department of Defense.
My large experience of teaching let me to share easily my knowledge. My main skills are Lighting, Shading, Shader Wrting, Stereoscopy, for which I did my first step in in 1984.Software used (now): Open Shading Language (OSL), Stereoscopy, Lighting, Shading, Optics, Photometry, TeachingMaya, 3DSMax, Blender / Cycles, VRay, Nuke, Natron, Substance Designer, Arnold, Clarisse Ifx, ...