Jean-Paul Ledoux Email & Phone Number

Vancouver, Canada Area

Vancouver, Canada Area

Vancouver, Canada Area

On a short term contract helping out with TV series, "Once Upon A Time".

Creative and technical compositing lead for projects at Nitrogen. It's my responsibility to make sure my artists can deliver what the director wants within the time production gives us. I design looks, script tools and model workflows that give the artist the best chance for success. I deliver final composited shots to production and ensure a final technical check.

Spending a couple of months helping finish off an animated series called Zeke's Pad.

Working on some sweet-looking game trailers and live-action cinematics.

Compositing in Shake on Cinematics and Trailers for Next-Gen Console games.

Managed a crew of 10 Compositors and 5 Support personnel on a 40-episode animated series called Chaotic. My responsibilities included defining the compositing pipeline, communicating and refining the pipeline with other departments, show breakdowns, mentoring junior compositors, developing and optimizing compositing FX, contributing to the development of the tracker software, and generally ensuring the shows were getting out on time.

Compositing and FX for Dragon Booster production. Built FX Rigs and mounting scripts, trained staff and prepared documentation for Stormhawks production.

As a smaller VFX shop, all of us were required to be able to do everything for FX shots. So I modeled, textured, animated, lit, tracked and rendered any shot I worked on. Most of the work was for sci-fi dramas (Stargate, Outerlimits, Andromeda, Dead like Me, The 4400). We used Soft 3D, Maya and XSI mainly, with final compositing done by Inferno Artists. I also initiated or contributed to internal projects including the company web page.

Produced an 8-hour Video Tutorial product called "Getting Started in XSI". Aimed at a 3D artist(Maya inparticular) looking to make the switch to XSI.

Certification, 3D Animation & Visual Fx

Curriculum included: Softimage 3D, Maya, Photoshop, Classical Animation, Life Drawing, Sculpture, Color Theory, Composition, Story.

Computer Systems

C, Turbo Pascal, Cobol, Operations Design, Marketing

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