Zsolt Derka Email & Phone Number

New York, NY, US

Princeton Junction, New Jersey, US

Providing CGI visuals with Robert Bacall Representatives, a roster of award-winning talent.

Providing Campaign Solutions and CGI Visuals for Pharma

New York, NY, US

• CGI & VFX Artist, Team Lead (Staff) - Link904/2018 - 05/2020CG & VFX Artist (Staff) - Harrison and Star10/2015 - 04/2018CG Artist (Freelance) - Harrison and Star10/2015 - 10/2015 CG Artist (Freelance).
• Contributed as an influential leader in developing conceptual pitches to win business through producing Award Winning artwork and art.
• Prepared Creative Briefs that include project summary to share with our staff.
• Incorporated feedback in workflow process to ensure global consistency across all work.
• Set team deliverables for pitch delivery and maintain top-quality and consistent production of assets across a diverse team of artists.
• Provided art direction, and created templates that established general guidelines and industry standards for 3D production.

• Developed and implemented skill-building activities focused on basic fundamentals of fine arts and stories of art history to captivate and develop confidence in students’ creative abilities.
• Developed lesson plans to teach course materials according to schedule.

New York, New York, US

• Collaborated with programmers to maximize the visuals based on the exhibition hardware while retaining a frame-rate above 30fps.
• Responsible for creating environmental art, visual design, modeling, lighting and FX.
• Implemented a PBR workflow within Unity.
• Used Unity, Maya, Substance Painter, and World Machine to create environments and enhanced characters with realtime reflections and advanced shaders.
• Used existing character animation to develop new stories for three (3) projects.
• Liaised with editorial personnel to create and produce digital and marketing content and promo development.

Stamford, CT, US

• Demonstrated self-reliance by meeting and exceeding workflow needs.
• Handled all forms of production, from the client creative brief to story boarding, style frame, and post production final grade.
• Responsible for successfully delivering logo modeling and an introduction for PPV event by modeling, texturing, shading, lighting, animation, effects, and editing.
• Collaborated interdepartmentally to execute weekly deliverables for camera animation, intro’s, transitions, and lower thirds.

Stafford, Virgina, US

• Worked with artistic and technical teams to implement new software for updated animation objectives.
• Created vehicle and environment assets for JIDO’s counter IED training simulation program.
• Proposed and implemented PBR workflow, integrated layers, including live-action and computer-generated elements.
• Motivated and encouraged team members to communicate more openly and constructively with each other.
• Assessed storyboard for composition aspects such as positioning of characters on background.
• Inspected completed work to assess for consistency, quality and continuity.

New York, NY, US

• Modeled and textured clothing and faces with esthetics to match an illustrative look for previs using their custom pipeline and scripts within MotionBuilder.
• Incorporated feedback in workflow process to ensure national consistency across all work.
• Photo-sourced textures with painterly appearance for animation previsualization.

New York, NY, US

• Part of innovative team responsible for pioneering the concert of geo-fenced virtual objects in the real world
• Completed first-rate animation from hand-drawn sketches using Maya, After Effects, and ZBrush.
• Collaborated with creative directors, graphic designers and producers to execute projects with precision and achieve project goals.
• Created agendas and communication materials for team meetings.
• Communicated effectively with team members and internal stakeholders to promote smooth project operations and on-time delivery.
• Managed color grading for select frames and objects.

US

• Collaborated with others to discuss new TV show packages, spots, lower thirds, and promo opportunities.
• Reviewed scenes to determine pacing and continuity and trimmed shots to fit with content.
• Contributed to idea development and brainstorming sessions to promote quality and timeliness of project completion.
• Reviewed project documents to obtain technical and creative requirements.

Santa Monica, CA, US

• Owned and led the highly specialized character modeling for proposed movie.
• Collaborated with production and management to ensure alignment on pipeline deliverables.

London, England, GB

• Worked closely with team members to deliver project requirements, develop solutions and meet deadlines.
• Applied knowledge of variables such as anticipation and impact for model development.
• Collaborated with creative team and director to ensure alignment between artistic vision and editing requirements.

US

• Facilitated projects and contributed to every stage of the process for broadcast, spots, and promos.
• Crafted 3D assets, including texturing, modeling and rigging.