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Stephen Bester is listed as Character Supervisor at Sunrise Animation Studios, a with 110 employees, based in City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa. AeroLeads shows a matched LinkedIn profile for Stephen Bester.
Stephen Bester previously worked as VFX Lead, Senior Houdini TD at Sunrise Animation Studios and Senior Houdini TD at Sunrise Productions. Stephen Bester holds Degree In Visual Communication, 3D Animation from The Open Window.
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I'm a passionate 3D generalist with a focus on procedural asset creation in SideFX Houdini. I enjoy a constant challenge in my pursuit of self-improvement.
Listed skills include Character Animation, Computer Animation, After Effects, Photoshop, and 17 others.
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South Africa
Responsible for the managing the quality and technical consistency of characters through the full animation pipeline. Working with department Leads to ensure clean inputs and outputs at each stage of production. Managing cross-department information and issues. Developing tools to optimize and streamline character production.
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Returning to Sunrise as VFX Lead. Tasked with creating a wide range of visual effects with a focus on efficiency and procedurality. Leading a small team to deliver all vfx shots required on a feature-length animation film. Also providing TD support to create artist-friendly tools in Houdini.
Cape Town Area, South Africa
I joined Sunrise as a Senior Houdini TD to head up their crowd department for Jungle Beat The Movie. My small team and I developed a fully procedural crowd pipeline in Houdini, overcoming many challenges along the way and delivering over 100 crowd shots on schedule. I also contributed to several vfx tools and workflows such as dynamic grass and foliage, fur deformation, and character and weapon effects.In 2020 I was primarily involved in research and development. I dove deep into… Show more I joined Sunrise as a Senior Houdini TD to head up their crowd department for Jungle Beat The Movie. My small team and I developed a fully procedural crowd pipeline in Houdini, overcoming many challenges along the way and delivering over 100 crowd shots on schedule. I also contributed to several vfx tools and workflows such as dynamic grass and foliage, fur deformation, and character and weapon effects.In 2020 I was primarily involved in research and development. I dove deep into Houdini python states to develop a dressing tool-set focused on ease-of-use and efficiency for artists. In collaboration with David Reinhold, I also developed an open source tool-set to create crowd in Houdini called ChoreoFX. Show less
Johannesburg Area, South Africa
I worked my way up from a Junior Animator to Animation Lead and Supervisor on several projects. However, I gravitated to more technical work, and eventually moved into role more focused on rigging, procedural effects and pipeline tools/scripts.
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Tim Hoffman
Colleague at Sunrise Animation StudiosCity Of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
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Christiaan Botha
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Maarten Nauta
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Gábor Konkoly
Colleague at Sunrise Animation StudiosVeresegyház, Pest, Hungary
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Sam Wilson
Colleague at Sunrise Animation StudiosCity Of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
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Isaac Holze
Colleague at Sunrise Animation StudiosNew York City Metropolitan Area, United States
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Jim Turner
Colleague at Sunrise Animation StudiosLos Angeles Metropolitan Area, United States
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Amy Vergunst
Colleague at Sunrise Animation StudiosCity Of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
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Ashlyn Langeveld
Colleague at Sunrise Animation StudiosCape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
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Best Foundation (1st year) Achievement 2011. Best Degree II (2nd year) Achievement 2012. Best Degree III (3rd year) Achievement 2013.
Graduated with 8 Distinctions
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Stephen Bester works for Sunrise Animation Studios.
Stephen Bester is listed as Character Supervisor at Sunrise Animation Studios.
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Stephen Bester holds Degree In Visual Communication, 3D Animation from The Open Window.
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