Sam Marrocco Email & Phone Number

Farmington, Mi, Us

Involved in all aspects of equipment & technique pipelines and workflows. Equipment design & decisions, media management/processing techniques, writing custom code and glue between various systems, problem solving and efficiency resolution, learning all aspects of media applications. I'm the fulcrum of the triple-sided lever between the business, art and tech sides in our industry.

Inferno & Flame Artist, Compositor/Designer. Wrote in-house render farm controller (Miranda) for Maya, Mental Ray, V-Ray, AfterEffects. Wrote custom compositing code for Adobe products, archival system, media library, many other in-house job management/pipeline applications, automation projects involving custom native UI development, transcoding applications, FFMPEG development, DotNet, C/C++, Flame, MEL, Python, Nuke, Fusion, dynamics & particle plugins. Designed and wrote SubSpace, a 3D Digitizing Modeler application for 3D digitizing arms).

Visual effects design & compositing on Flame. Built custom render farm for SideFX Houdini and NewTek Lightwave, wrote plugins for both. Wrote custom render farm controller for Houdini, Lightwave.

Analog and digital editor, used every vfx device available including K-Scope, ADO, Squeezezoom, 2", 1", Abekas, Flint, Flame, Fire, Lightwave, Alias/Wavefront, 3DS Max. Built first local render farm, wrote custom particle systems and render farm management applications, coded for Symbolics 3D/Paint. Designed and wrote 3D modeler for Quantel Mirage on Amiga systems.

Wrote visual effects software for Amiga Computers including MultiLayer (compositing/layering application), MultiFrame (digital paint effects application), Vertex (3D Modeling application). Wrote many plugins for Amiga and then PC-based Lightwave 3D apps.

Produced, shot and edited content, designed and built custom motion control rigs and software for such, built custom optical printer for film effects, wrote 3D VFX software.