Violette Sacre Email & Phone Number

Greater Los Angeles Area

Look development and grooming artist on movies: 'Trolls 2', ‘puss in boots 2’, ‘boss baby2’, Softwares used: Maya, Houdini, substance painter, xgen, Mari, zbrush, blender.

Worked as look Development/3D visual development artist on 'Unreleased Disney Feature Animation Film'. Worked closely with the VFX supervisor/ production Designer/Art Director and Visual Development team, to come up with creative designs and 'look' solutions for unreleased 3D animation film. The looks we came up with were front end, exploratory, and helped support the Art department helping them figure out challenging 3d looks before entering into production.responsibilities included: 'using any tool or technique available to accomplish the task' : including modeling, uvs, texturing, shading, lighting, compositing, some animation,some effects,...etc...using softwares: Maya, Clarisse, Mari, Zbrush, Mudbox, Houdini, Nuke, Photoshop, etc..

Glendale, Ca

Developed looks for Characters and Sets for Holiday Special: 'Albert' responsibilities included: Painting Texture Maps, setting up Shaders and Sculpting Surface detail using Zbrush and Mudbox ( exporting Normal and Vector Displacement maps).software used:Zbrush, Mudbox, Photoshop, Maya, Redshift 3D

Glendale, Ca

RESPONSIBILITIES:-Work on on all aspects of the texturing pipeline translating the vision of the Directors from 2D Art into 3D.-Develop the look, paint textures, sculpt and paint displacement maps,setup translucency, create materials and shader networks for Characters, Crowd Characters, Props, and Environments.-Work closely with Art Directors, Production Designers, and VFX Supervisors to create look of Hero Characters and their Grooms.-Collaborate with other departments and other studios working cross-site to finalize looks of Assets in the production shots.-Meet Tight Deadlines and Adapt to various project styles.MOVIE CREDITS:'Home'{September 2014-February 2015} 'The Penguins of Madagascar' {June 2014 -August 2014} ‘Puss in Boots 2'{2013 to June 2014} (still in production) ‘The Croods' {2010 to 2012 } ''How to train your dragon' {2008 to 2010 }'Madagascar 2' {2008}’Bee movie' {2006 to 2007} OTHER PROJECTS:‘Dream house’ project{August-September 2014 } short term texturing on the Dreamworks, ‘Dreamhouse’ project featured in Malls accross the country(Please refer to Reel and Shot Break-down listed above for specific assets that I worked on)

Glendale, Ca

Texturing and Grooming for Main Character , for upcoming short 'Bink' (still in production)(freelance position)Software Used:Mudbox, Photoshop, Maya, Maya Xgen, Arnold.

Burbank, Ca

Lead Texture Artist On Animation Short 'Tai Chi Mice' ( still in production) Textured and created Shaders for Main character and Sets.Software used:Maya, Mari 2.5, Photoshop, Arnold

Hollywood, Ca

Lead Texture Artist working on 'Shrek' ride for Dubai Theme Park.-Worked closely with Art Directors from EDC to create the desired look for the ride. -Painted and helped design look of key set elements.software used:Mudbox, Photoshop, Maya,

Los Angeles, California

Worked For EDC, subcontracted from Mammoth Vision.

Orlando, Florida Area

Modeled Michigan Football stadium for next gen NCAA game and helped create character models and textures and normal maps for MADEN.

Bachelors Of Fine Art Specializing In Computer Animation With Minor In Painting, Computer Animation

Four year degree taught us all aspects of 3d animation from concept, pre-production, modeling, texturing, rigging, animation, lighting.

Management And Visual Communications: In The European American Institute Of Technology Division.