Marc-Andre Davignon Email & Phone Number

Canada

Montreal, Canada Area

Since 2009, I've been working as a telecommuter from the Montreal area.

One of the 3 main engineers responsible for developing Katana 2D, main compositing package used for Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs, G-Force, Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland and The Zookeeper. Main responsibilities include the rendering architecture, ofx host architecture and image processing tool development.Worked on the optimization of our internal cloth-solver to keep it competitive with current commercial offerings.Current responsibilities also include the development of ofx plugins for use in Nuke from the Foundry.In the past I wrote plugins for Shake used in the movies Watchmen and Cats and Dogs 2.

From 02/2003 to present, worked as a graphics/image processing specialist for IFF as part of the IFF Image Processing Team and the Autodesk Image Science Team.From 07/2002 to 01/2003 worked on IFFSB video I/O.From 02/2000 to 06/2002 worked on toxik datamgt.

Director for live tv production of horse races from Hippodrome de Montreal intended for off-site betting parlors across eastern Canada and US.Production team consisted of video switcher, audio switcher, 9 cameras, remote camera calibration operator, graphic overlay operator, instant replay operator, video board operator, analyst, color commentator and race announcer.

Video switching and DVE operation during live tv production of horse races from Hippodrome de Montreal intended for off-site betting parlors across eastern Canada and US.During show preparation, programming of effects on switching console and DVE.