CV

Flying Bark - Sydney, NSW, Australia

(Aug 2023 - Apr 2024)

Mid Lighting and Compositing Artist - '200% Wolf'

• Lookdev on multiple scenes, creating Master shots that match the colour script equivalent concept art. 

• Set up the global template for a range of different environments and scenes for easy pass off between many artists. 

• Participated in Team meetings with a focus on team building, production progress updates and Daily and Weekly task updates to keep productions and supervisors up to date with my progress. 

• Engaged in Dailies presenting my shots to Supervisors 

• Addressed shot notes given by Supervisors and Directors

• Combined and graded light groups in compositing and rolled back major edits to 3D for cleaner renders

• Adjusted elements in 3D when required, such as materials, light and shadow linking, object placement, constraints, specular and diffuse contributions, fur density, asset and character adjustments

• Created custom light rigs using Katana for specific characters and props for all lighting artists use such as rigs for main character Moopoo and prop asset Blimp

• Assisted multiple Junior and Mid artists with trouble shooting technical and creative queries 

• Optimised render settings for shots to balance noise and render times in Katana and applied further denoising solutions in Nuke

• Created documents to help with new starters training as well as tricks and tips for specific issues and potential solutions. Combined other artists tutorials and learning materials into more easily accessible information hub. 

• Created shotgun UI’s for lighting artists for more easily accessible information pertaining to their duties 

• Worked closely with compositors and FX artists to help troubleshoot and test solutions to problems that affected assets, scenes and scheduling. 

• Communicated issues with assets, scenes, shots and scheduling with production and lighting and compositing supervisors for a more seamless production and helped brainstorm solutions for technical and artistic solutions.  

• Programs: Katana, Nuke, Shotgun, RV

• https://www.flyingbark.com.au

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Animal Logic - Sydney, NSW, Australia

(Jan 2021 - Present)

Mid Lighting Artist - 'DC League of Super Pets', 'Netflix’s The Magician’s Elephant', 'Leo'

• Key lighting, mini-key lighting and shot lighting and compositing across multiple sequences and projects

• Matched shots to colour script and key lighting shots

• Engaged in Dailies and Final Lighting Dailies presenting my shots to Leads and Supervisors

• Addressed shot notes given by Leads, Supervisors and Directors

• Combined and graded light groups in compositing and rolled back major edits to 3D for cleaner renders

• Adjusted elements in 3D when required, such as materials, light and shadow linking, reflection and diffuse

• Created custom grade mattes when directed by leads and DI

• Assisted Junior artists with trouble shooting technical and creative queries

• Researched and organised learning materials between projects

• Programs: Filament, Nuke, Shotgun

• https://animallogic.com

 

Like A Photon - Brisbane, QLD, Australia

(March 2019 - Sept 2020)

Junior Lighting and Compositing Artist - 'Tales of Sanctuary City: The Wishmas Tree', 'Combat Wombat', 'Daisy Quokka'

• Responsible for delivering high quality shots in both Lighting and Compositing for multiple scenes.

• Works closely with Asset, Animation and FX departments.

• Troubleshoots creative and technical issues as they arise.

• Look Development for a variety of different scenes and shots.

• Participates in scene reviews and weekly reviews.

• Programs: Maya, Fusion, Arnold

• http://www.likeaphoton.com/

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Animal Logic Academy - Sydney, NSW, Australia

(Jan 2018 - Dec 2018)

Concept Artist, 3D Generalist, Lighting and Compositing Artist - 'The Colour Thief' and 'Xploro'

• Collaborated with a team of 28 artists and coders

• Creating character light rigs for team to use

• Present work in dailies, address notes from industry leads

• Responsible for delivering high quality shots in both Lighting and Compositing

• Setup initial lighting setup based on brief from Craig Welsh, lighting supervisor at animal logic

• Setup and wrangled volumes, atmospherics in katana

• Split lighting passes for comp

• Rendered and wrangled FX elements  

• Responsible for delivering high quality shots in both Lighting and Compositing

• Did regrade, fast comp based modifications for FX damage

• Works closely with Animation and FX departments

• Troubleshoots creative and technical issues as they arise

• Rigged drones and robots in maya

• Design and Modelled custom set dressing elements for sci-fi debris in Maya, Zbrush

• Colour Concept and Lighting Design for realtime project in Photoshop, Procreate

• Participates in daily meetings and shot reviews

• Involved with asset creation in other departments such as Modelling, Surfacing and Rigging

• Used Shotgun, USD Pipeline, Photoshop, Maya, Substance Painter, Katana, Nuke

• https://animallogicacademy.uts.edu.au

 

JMC Academy - Sydney, NSW, Australia

(May 2017- Jan 2018)

Creative Director, Asset Creation and Lighting Artist - 'Flicker'

• Collaborated with two other students

• Won the Martini Award for Best Animation

• Lighting Lead

• Modelling Lead

• Rigger

• Surfacing Lead

• Concept Artist

• During this I learnt for the first time not only the struggles of working with others but also how to overcome the challenges they presented.

• Responsible for the direction of the creative look of the project

• I assisted other artists on several assets

• Responsible for Asset Creation, Set Layout and Lighting

• Used Shotgun, Maya, AfterEffects, Mudbox, Photoshop, Arnold

• https://www.jmcacademy.edu.au

 

Moon Communications - Sydney, NSW, Australia

(Jun 2013 - Jun 2013)

Internship

• Worked with the Design division, airbrushing and editing photographs for commercial use.

• Researched for audio files in the Audio division, searching for music that was low cost but fit with the commercial.

• Conducted meetings to recruit models for commercial jobs.

• Used Photoshop

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