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Kai Chang is listed as VFX creative/technical veteran at Tippett Studio, a company with 143 employees, based in Emeryville, California, United States. AeroLeads shows a work email signal at tippett.com and a matched LinkedIn profile for Kai Chang.
Kai Chang previously worked as Pipeline Software Engineer at Tippett Studio and Lighting TD at Dneg. Kai Chang holds Bachelor Of Arts, Psychology from University Of California, Santa Cruz.
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VFX industry veteran with tons of experience both in creative and technical aspects of production. Senior Lighting Artist/TD with over 9 years of lighting experience at Industrial Light & Magic and DNEG. 12 years of pipeline/support experience in a feature film production environment at Industrial Light & Magic and Tippett Studio.Artist work primarily on feature films such as Black Panther, Jurassic World 2, Hobbs & Shaw, several Transformers movies, 2 Star Trek films, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2, and some amusement park simulator attractions like Soarin' Around The World and Star Tours. Also some feature animation work in Lucasfilm's Strange Magic.Most recently worked as a Pipeline Software Engineer at Tippett handling tool development and show support on various projects from feature and episodic to commercials and special venue. Tool work in Nuke, Maya, and back-end, primarily in Python. Became company's color specialist handling varied OCIO configurations. Credits in Falcon & Winter Soldier, The Witcher (Season 3), Secret Invasion, with support work in others.
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Berkeley, CA
Pipeline development and support in a small shop handling VFX for a wide range of projects ranging from feature film to episodic to special venue. General development and support tasks for tools in Maya and Nuke. Built fur workflow for Yeti, handled a lot of show setup tasks, most critically color setups in OCIO, becoming the key color specialist at Tippett.
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Lighting work with occasional asset look adjustments for Hobbs & Shaw. Worked mainly in Clarisse and Nuke. Included lighting on FX elements like smoke and particles like rocks, debris, gravel.
Mostly lighting in Katana using Arnold and Pixar Renderman and in-house software package 'Zeno', with occasional work in fire/smoke and water drip/mist simulations also in Zeno. Regular participation in technical teams creating or maintaining pipeline-level or package-specific (Maya, Zeno, Katana, Houdini, Nuke) tools, generally coding in Python, often.
Scripts and Tools writing. Majority of code in Python with various GUI packages, most recently PyQt, but also GTK, FLTK, and wxPython. Tool written were generally run via command-line, but also did tools work for Katana, Maya, Zeno, and occasionally Nuke and Shake. Some work in Maya using MEL and Python as well.Areas of development included automation of.
Supported the Digital Matte Dept. Started as a Macintosh/Unix environment using primarily Electric Image, Form-Z, and After Effects to a Windows/Unix environment primarily in 3dsmax, Maya, and After Effects. Later on some artists used XSI and Vue. Supported desktop, render farms, and even some file server and web server machines on Macintosh and PC. Farm.
Berkeley, CA
Technical support work at Institute of Governmental Studies at UC Berkeley, which included its Statewide Database project which handles voter information often used during redistricting.General support ranging from systems administration to web site maintenance on Unix. Some desktop IT support on office systems on Windows. Also some database work with GIS.
Setup and troubleshooting of artist and administrative Macintosh hardware and software at ILM. Includes Machine builds, setup/troubleshooting of CG Software and conventional office software, backups, etc. Mostly Mac OS 9, but beginning to pick up Mac OS X at the time. I actually also had extensive Unix and Windows experience, which was a plus in many.
Rotten Tomatoes was actually an internal project at web design firm Design Reactor, where I started work. As the site grew popular, the entire company shifted focus to that.Web development for RT website primarily in PHP interfacing with a MySQL DB. Included some Perl work. Built tools to help production staff input data and create pages and various.
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Anne Willson
Colleague at Tippett StudioAlameda, California, United States, United States
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Alafarty Maja
Colleague at Tippett StudioDar es-Salaam, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, Tanzania, United Republic Of
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Marie-Laure Nguyen
Colleague at Tippett StudioBerkeley, California, United States, United States
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Sophia Fesel
Colleague at Tippett StudioToronto, Ontario, Canada, Canada
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Brett Foxwell
Colleague at Tippett StudioOakland, California, United States, United States
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Tatiana Lapshina
Colleague at Tippett StudioToronto, Ontario, Canada, Canada
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Zekı Ipek
Colleague at Tippett StudioTürkiye, Turkey
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David Gutman
Colleague at Tippett StudioSan Francisco, California, United States, United States
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Tina Clay
Colleague at Tippett StudioKeene, New Hampshire, United States, United States
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Mathew Oshea
Colleague at Tippett StudioWagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia, Australia
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Activities and Societies: Oakes College, worked at ICL.
Incomplete. Interrupted by father's death, then work in the dot-com startups of the late 1990s!
Coursework for modeling, animation, rendering, and compositing in After Effects and Maya.
Formal training in acrylic painting.
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Kai Chang works for Tippett Studio.
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Kai Chang has worked for Tippett Studio, Dneg, Industrial Light + Magic, Industrial Light & Magic, and University Of California, Berkeley.
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Kai Chang holds Bachelor Of Arts, Psychology from University Of California, Santa Cruz.
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