James Rowell Email & Phone Number

Dallas, TX, US

Various Locations

- On set VFX supervision for Commercial/TV/Film projects, including bidding/planning.- Provides all elements needed for post-production. Eg, HDR, cam/vfx reports/notes, ref pics, photogrammetry etc.- Clients include: The Mill, Harbor Picture Company, Framestore, Preymaker, Ingenuity Studios, Groove Jones, CoSA VFX, Deep Ellum Films.- On-the-box compositing.

Dallas, TX

- Bidding, planning and supervising CG jobs in house and on set.- Managing team of 8-12 artists and tech leads.- “On the box” lighting, compositing and effects.

- Created lighting, compositing and effects for TV and film projects.- Look development, art direction and technical consultation.- On set VFX supervision plus post production supervision of artists.- Commercials created by OIC include spots for L’Oreal, Crayola, Revlon, Avon, Bayer and Procter and Gamble.

San Francisco Bay Area

Digital Compositing on Battleship.

San Francisco Bay Area

Composited shots for Pirates of the Caribbean 4: On Stranger Tides as well as trailer shots for Battleship.

- Supervised and managed staff in the 3d department in the NJ office of an architectural visualization firm- Created and supervised architectural-visualization animations as the lead lighter, compositor and camera match mover- Improved production quality by implementing new technology and procedures- Directed on-location shoots for camera match moves.

- Created CG lighting and compositing for a wide range of TV commercials- Created lighting tools to help streamline shot turnaround- Meeting and interfacing with Charlex's clients

- Created special effects, CG lighting and compositing for shots in Planet of the Apes, Star Wars Episode II, Star Wars Episode III, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Medeski, Martin and Wood (jazz video), Pirates of the Caribbean, Van Helsing, Lemony Snicket and War of the Worlds- Performed artistic look development for special effects and lighting.

Created special effects and lit shots for The Matrix Revolutions

- Built character dynamics system, implemented crowd system and built lead animated characters for the film Antz- Created special effects, CG lighting and 2D compositing for shots in Antz, Forces of Nature, Mission Impossible II, The Legend of Bagger Vance, commercials for Pepsi, Best Buy, Wiltel, and look development tests for The Minority Report

- Researched and contributed to the redesign of the software architecture of AutoCAD Release 13- Designed and built the basis of the C++ 3d math library for both internal and third party use- Introduced and established C++ coding standards at Autodesk- Created “Associative Leader” dimensioning feature for AutoCAD Release 13- Designed and laid out the.

- Principal architect and product designer of the Sketch! modeling and rendering package- Created 3D math library for basic linear algebra support- Designed and built a test environment for C++ objects- Designed and implemented components of Sketch!’s modeling tools and graphics database- Included as developer on British Patent Number 9116461.6- NOTE.

- Designed and configured visualization lab at the "Ontario Center for Large Scale Computing"- Developed visualization software for results of scientific simulations run on the Cray X-MP/24 super computer- Produced visualization projects for scientific users of the Cray

- Developed first publicly used HyperCard stack- Studied and reported on graphical metaphors for user navigation in databases and networks- Prototyped novel interface techniques and presented user interface concepts to various functional groups within Apple.

Bachelor Of Science, Honors In Computer Science

Activities and Societies: ACM Student Chapter ChairAffiliated with UofT DGP (Dynamic Graphics Project)

Fine Arts, Film