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Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

Global

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Selected Accomplishments:✓ Designed and implemented tools to reconstruct scenes as references, identifying and exporting assets for further inspection and use by production teams.✓ Resolved recurring shading problems through adept use of Python, developing tool to identify and correct missed connections for faces and objects. ✓ Corrected instancing issues in Maya, creating artist guideline to effectively decrease periodic misuse of applications by visual effects artists.✓ Developed tool to recognize objects and attributes in a consistent manner, aiding artists in the utilization of Cryptomatte and V-RAY.✓ Created validations for checklist items and scripts, displaying faulty shader connections, allowing users throughout studio facility to identify and correct them.✓ Designed application to assess verity of render data for various cameras, checking layers for consistency. Application achieved daily used throughout studio.✓ Wrote and implemented guidelines for visual effects teams regarding effective use of various software and numerous tools, improving pipeline processes facility-wide.

Vancouver, Canada Area

Key Responsibilities:- Write pipeline tools and further developing the pipeline for use across TV and film mediums, collaborating with creative and technical leads to develop assets, tools and workflows.- Create, package, document and release tools for production use, crafting documents and tutorials that describe pipeline processes for VFX artists. Develop and maintain scripts and utilities for 3D and artists.- Work in collaboration with supervisors and team members to determine the best solutions to recurring issues regarding timely and efficient production.- Capable Zeus lead, creating and testing game engine-based 3D environments composited live for director, shot on green screen sound stage. Supervises CG aspects of on-set processes throughout shooting days.- Identify workflow inefficiencies and work with artists and other pipeline teams to build scripts, tools and/or systems to optimize processes and meet production goals.- Assist artists with technical issues anywhere in the production pipeline, assisting teams to optimize and reduce render times for various render passes.- Process thorough documentation of all development and updating as necessary, ensuring seamless record-keeping and communication regarding assets.- Conduct ongoing research to recommend improvements to workflows in order to improve productivity or communication between teams.- Exercise abilities to achieve creative goals while working with software under development, providing feedback on its use.- Prototype assets and techniques for upcoming shows, identifying complexities of new assets and sequences.- Assist in creating and/or converting assets to fit within the specifications of simulations and render pipelines through procedural and scripted processes.- Record reference, write descriptions, and help manage the cycle reference library for animation to use when creating cycles.- Assist in the development of new workflows and maintenance of simulation pipeline.

Overview: Provided film and photorealistic imaging simulations for several mid-to-high profile clients, including Israel Railways Corporation, Sharon Dancziger Industrial Designer, Synergy Ltd. and Herzliya Tennis Centre. Offered additional services including product animation, web design and modeling.

Diploma, 3D Animation & Visual Effects

Diploma, Animation

and 3D 3DS MAX - Modeling: edge modeling, box modeling, spline modeling, advanced use of MeshSmooth Modifier. Animation: Advanced.

Diploma, Animation

and 3D 3DS MAX - Modeling: edge modeling, box modeling, spline modeling, advanced use of MeshSmooth Modifier. Animation: Advanced.