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Wellington, New Zealand

Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

• Work with the director to refine lighting during virtual production shoots.
• Work with art directors and VFX supe to establish lighting motifs for scenes in preparation for virtual shoots with the director.
• Support review processes and tooling for the onset lighting team, VFX supervisor and production team, to improve overall quality of lighting delivered to set.

• Supported the director on the virtual/live action sets to provide lighting solutions during the shoot.
• Mentor and support lighting team TDs in problem solving technical issues and artistic details to get the best results for virtual shoots and deliveries to post-VFX.
• Designed/implemented review processes and tooling for the onset lighting team, VFX supervisor and production team, to improve overall quality and iteration turn around time of lighting delivered to set, and lighting.
• Designed and supported lighting workflows and tooling to improve consistency and quality of work to virtual set.

Los Angeles, California, United States

• Engage with client side supervisors, department leads and development teams, as well as Lighting TD’s to ensure consistency and quality of work.
• Planned/implemented workflows for show specific onset lighting.
• Trained and mentored new members of the team, new hires at the facility, as well as document a training routine for future lighting hires.
• Developed/designed API’s and artist facing tools for onset lighting workflows.
• Collaborated with the client side development team to provide advice and solutions systems/workflows/best practices for delivering from Virtual Production to post-VFX.
• Built a compositing pipeline to allow a quick post visualisation of the virtual lighting against live action shots.

Los Angeles, California, United States

• Worked closely with the VFX Supervisor, DOP and director to establish a lighting aesthetic/motif for sequences.
• Supported the director on the virtual/live action sets to provide lighting solutions during the shoot.
• Integrated in-house real time renderer into an offline rendering pipeline.
• Collaborated with client side department leads, to problem solve technical details in scene management.
• Assist in migrating assets and deliverables between the client and Weta.
• Assist with asset ingest, scene setup, optimization, and validation of look and performance of scenes on virtual set.

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

• Redesigned/implemented the new rendering pipeline to adopt a new render farm dispatcher.
• Integrated the in-house renderer into the rendering pipeline.
• Developed/designed API’s and artist facing tools for lighting workflows, including tools to assist artists with renderer settings and dispatching jobs to the render farm.
• Co-ordinate with the Compositing department to develop systems for registering/publishing images for compositing workflows.
• Planned/implemented workflows for show specific requirements with VFX/CG Supervisors.
• Communicated artist needs to software department teams via feature requests/bug reports.

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

• Delivered final lighting as rendered images in The Hobbit 2, and Iron Man 3.
• Solved demanding artistic and technical shot problems independently.
• Developed tools to automate/simplify the rendering of secondary displays for Extremis in Iron Man 3.
• Optimized lighting setups to minimize render times and efficiently use the render farm.

Miramar, Wellington, New Zealand

• Provided support to the Lighting Team delivering the Goblin Cavern in The Hobbit.
• Aided in the process of transitioning work through the production pipeline.
• Involved in troubleshooting and debugging render jobs to help lighting artists final shots.
• Communicated rendering bugs/optimisations to the appropriate TD, supervisor, or developer.

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

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Bachelor Of Design Innovation, Media

Bachelor Of Commerce And Administration, Marketing