Reza Ghobadinic Email & Phone Number

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

City Of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Developing tools to automate and improve the workflow for the artists, using Python, PySide2, JSON, Maya Python Libraries and API, Houdini Python Library, Git and Github in Linux environment.

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Supervised the CG team for HBO's "His Dark Materials, Season 3" and "My Spy 2".

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Montreal, Canada Area

London, United Kingdom

Supervising the crowd teams on various film projects in London and Montreal.

London, United Kingdom

Used Golaem Crowd System in Maya to design and create the crowd for Dracula Untold. Lead of a team of 5 to 8 people during the period of the project.

Sydney Area, Australia

Working on The Lego Movie: The Piece of Resistance.Using Houdini for creating crowds for shots and creating the related OTL assets that may include Python scripting.

Sydney, Australia

Designed and developed some pipeline related tools and Massive agents for "Walking With Dinosaurs" from the BBC Earth. Also worked on shots and was leading the crowd department of 5 people.

Sydney, Australia

Worked on variety of effects on different projects including Happy Feet 2, Polar Bear Coca Cola Ad, Sucker Punch, Kia Optima Ad, Ford Ad.The effects include particle effects to generate snow debris, flurries and wind, hero and background droplets, fur dynamics for wind and underwater effects, embers, smoke, etc...Sometimes worked on some Massive crowd.

Sydney, Australia

Worked as a senior Crowd TD using Massive Software to generate crowds of army and later as Effects TD to create embers, smoke, etc.. on a movie called Sucker Punch.

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

During this time I worked in the Crowd Department of Weta Digital on Avatar.First year:I was implementing texture synthesis tools using C++ on Linux/GCC and implemented a couple of papers including “Jump Map Texture Synthesis” and “Hybrid Texture Synthesis”. Also made a tool that used Massive and Maya Mel Script for an automated natural plant generation.

Tehran, Iran

Helped setting up a film studio from scratch!

Sydney, Australia

Made crowd scenes using Massive, Maya, Mayaman, Digital Fusion and Renderman for Happy Feet.

Sydney, Australia

• As a technical assistant, I worked under the FX department supervisor to help various department in their tasks:
• Hair and Feather bake process
• Ambient Occlusion pass process for characters
• Working on VFX department's test scenes (Lighting, Particle, Compositing,...)
• Helping Lighting and Character departments in test renders and bake processes
• Writing MEL script tools for TA department to improve the pipeline and optimizing the speed

Tehran, Tehran Province, Iran

Tehran, Tehran Province, Iran

• Developping Analyzer and Excercizer for next generation PC Bus (PCI-Express) in a team of 12talented hardware and software engineers:
• Design and implementation of Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) with OO and C++
• TCP/IP and Winsock programming in C++
• USB programming in C++
• GUI programming using MFC and Windows SDK
• Documentation

Tehran, Tehran Province, Iran

• Making commercials, film effects and Multimedia CDs as a freelancer in my own small office
• Helping many Advertising Companies in their TV commercial productions.

Tehran, Tehran Province, Iran

Film Directing Course

Six months weekends film directing course with the well known Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf.

Bachelor Of Science, Computer Hardware Engineering