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"I am passionate to develop pipelines and workflows that allow my team to create a more detailed photorealistic work with less effort."I'm the technical Director at Focus 360. I have 23+ years’ experience with 3dstudio Max and Vray. I'm passionate and driven about 3d and VFX and am always up for a challenge. I enjoy the design process and iterate quickly. I have an eye for detail and I am well organized. I consistently work through various artists to achieve the best look possible within the given time constraints. I'm very proud of the mentoring I've done for many talented artists throughout my career. I oversee our material creation, animation and compositing pipeline. When actually working on a shot, I specialize in managing large amounts of asset data typically found in large aerials. I love a systematic approach to the challenges these types of shots bring. I am also responsible for our aerial drone video as well as 3d tracking that's needed to match live video with CG. I create all of our water FX using Phoenix FD. I oversee our green screen video production as well as our keying and rotoscoping pipelines. I interface with sales and clients to help design a product that meets their needs and takes advantage of our teams skillset. I interface with estimating to ensure the proper budget is reached for the proposal.

Listed skills include Animation, Compositing, 3D Studio Max, Photoshop, and 6 others.

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  Technical Director

  Focus 360

  Jun 1998 - Present - California Nomad

  My responsibilities include• Development of Production Pipeline for 3d animation team.• Material Creation Pipeline via Substance Designer and Vray• Developing 3ds Max Pipeline• Integrating Vray techniques into Pipeline• Render farm via Deadline• Timesaving modeling techniques for our products • Aerial Drone Video• 3d Tracking pipeline• Laying out logic for time saving tool development and scripting needs• Software 3dsMax,Vray, Substance Designer, Photoshop, AfterFX, Syntheyes