Mikhail Lesin Email & Phone Number

Moscow, Russian Federation

Everything related to all technologies used in a studio, Pipeline development, Technical Administration, sometimes act as VFX TD/Artist

Corrected the pipeline of CG dept. to work with linear color.Responsible for the technologies used in CG dept., instructed the personnel how to follow them.Developed cross-platform OpenEXR image viewer "scope". It allows to view very large images and provides interface similar to Nuke viewer to avoid additional personal learning.Ported some of studio's maya plugins to linux.Managed the development of:- The set of Slim templates, providing a flexible way to mix the shading and output multiple passes during a single render.- Mental ray shaders to fit CG dept. needs.- Artificial Inelligence system called "Robots" (still in progress)Worked as a Shot TD, Lighting TD and Composer on projects listed below.Projects completed:Movies: Turkish gambit, Manga, Love signs.TV serials: Diversant, The Fall of the Empire.In game cinematics: Timeshift.

Produced all 3D content for a studio using Alias Maya and Pixar Photorealistic Renderman.Wrote Renderman shaders, Slim templates, small plugins for Maya and RAT to fit studio needs.Also did large amount of complex tracking (using 3D Equilizer on linux) and compositing (using Digital Fusion and Shake) tasks.Last year my work included lighting setup on the set, which gave me a lot of experience how light should interact with surfaces and volumes in 3D.Managed a team of 3-4 people in a post production department.

Developed:- Internal document processing system, widely used in the bank to do almost all finance operations.- Online banking system, providing secure access for a clients to manage their accounts.- Automated incoming document processing system, based on dynamic network of rules. Basic task was to parse different types of SWIFT documents, which appear in a specified folder, and then, during the process of them through the rule network, embed them into our internal system. All that operations were not required any human assistance.Managed a team of 4 people in IT department.