Gaël Nicolas Email & Phone Number

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Montreal, Canada Area

• Several end-of-production utilities to manage lighting render versions and manage disc space.• Refactoring the 2D comp pipe tools and general workflows to increase maintainability• Review tools for comp, contact sheet tools for seq, shots, and assets• Piping emerging show needs on the Comp and Stereo departments

Montreal, Canada Area

Montreal, Canada Area

• Developing internal pipeline, and technical workflow for the animation Department.• Created the basic toolset and updated existing animation tools.• Updating and creating new features forthe pipeline• Training and leading the current anim TD team.• Working along pipeline and vfx sup, securing the data flow between immediate departments (layout,previz,character fx,lighting)• Helping production with tracking issues

Madrid Area, Spain

Technical Director for Different areas, mainly in charge of developing, maintaining and updating different tools..Animation.• Animation Library. Updated the existing tool to be faster by using databases, and more user friendly with an updated UI, also opening the tool to be able to be used in any department, not only to animation/Layout.• Animation Preroll. Tool for the animators to easily create the pre-animation process that Character FX requires.• Different utilities… Show more Technical Director for Different areas, mainly in charge of developing, maintaining and updating different tools..Animation.• Animation Library. Updated the existing tool to be faster by using databases, and more user friendly with an updated UI, also opening the tool to be able to be used in any department, not only to animation/Layout.• Animation Preroll. Tool for the animators to easily create the pre-animation process that Character FX requires.• Different utilities. Snapping tools, customizable toolbars, node cleaner.Set up / rigging.• Hair from geo. Tool for the artist to help him create different sets of curves or geometries starting from the character proxy hair. This tool is for future steps in character FX pipeCrowds.• Char Model Cooker, tool for creating a single character crowd asset starting from the different variations that one can have, this is later used as a single asset to be instantiated in the scene. Show less

In charge of multiple Riggs for different projects, from short films to advertising campaigns.

Zapopan Area, Mexico

Cleaning and maintaining the rigs until the end of the production

Zapopan Area, Mexico

Technical Director of compositing.- Creating/maintaining Python Tools - Pipeline integration- Shotgun-Nuke integration- Maya to Nuke exportersCompositor:Creating the final compositions from the lighting renders.Matte positioning.Tracking.Rotoscoping.

Zapopan Area, Mexico

Part of the rigging team responsible for creating and maintaining, multiple rigs for the movie "Un Gallo con muchos Huevos".Python tools for XSI, and Maya.

Zapopan Area, Mexico

Creating the final compositions from the lighting renders.Matte positioning.Tracking.Rotoscoping.

Guadalajara Area, Mexico

Currently Tracking, and chroma Keying for TV spots

Mexico City Area, Mexico

For an animated series, to be shown at the Olimpics games. I was responsible for some of the character riggs in the series

Mexico City Area, Mexico

For Movie “Zbaw”, and movie " Alley of dreams".I was on the technical artist team, working on all the character Riggs for the movies.

Mexico City Area, Mexico

For Movie “Angel Caído”I worked on Postproduction and composition, mainly on charge of the simulation of particle effects, and rig and animation of dummies for those simulations

Engineer'S Degree, Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics And Special Effects

Facial Rigging