professional experience
April 2018 - Present
London - UK
2020
The King's Man
- Lighting Lead for all Framestore London sequences
- Look development of all CG goats
2020
The Midnight Sky
Senior Lookdev artist at Framestore London:
- Hero Digital Doubles for characters Adewole and Maya
- Small number of shot lighting setups.
2019
Pokémon: Detective Pikachu
Framestore London Lighting Lead:
- Underground Arena Battle Sequence
- Hi Hat Cafe Sequence
- Magikarp Look Development
July 2013 - April 2018
London - UK
2018
Pacific Rim: Uprising
- Complete Re-design of full Lighting Pipeline and Workflow.
- Designed and Implemented Scene Assembly tool for Clarisse.
- Co-designed environment-to-fx-to-lighting workflow.
- Designed Jaeger destruction look development preset system.
- Procedural City look development supervisor.
- Lighting Supervisor of 2 Mega Tokyo fight sequences.
2016
Assassin's Creed
- Lighting/Look Dev Lead for Seville sequence.
- Providing lighting setups and workflows for shading, managing and rendering all shots in sequence. (200+ shots)
- Hero Digidouble Lookdev: Aguilar, Maria (Assassins) and Ojeda (villain)
- Clarisse Lead, providing training to show artists.
- Shading Variable Tool Development in Clarisse, plus miscellaneous Clarisse Scripts.
2015
Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation
Look development with Isotropix’s Clarisse of:
- Ethan Hunt, and Benji Digi-Doubles and costumes (except underwater variant)
- Lock Pick infographics, A-400 Paradoor, and miscellaneous assets
- Lighting and Look development with Prman 19 of: Mask Machine sequence all elements.
2015
Spectre
Look development with Isotropix's Clarisse of:
- Westminster Bridge environment
- Dauphin Helicopter ( destroyed variant )
- Oberhauser CG scar.
2015
Insurgent
- Look development with Isotropix Clarisse for Insurgent.
- Stereo Lead.
2014
Jupiter Ascending
- Part of the 5 member team responsible of creating CG wings for final sequence on Jupiter Ascending. Responsible for lookdev of all assets in sequence: CG wings, 2 hero digi-doubles.
- Look development of various hard-surface assets as well as another 2 digi-doubles and props.
- Lighting rig creation for hero shots on wing sequence.
- Miscelaneous lighting shots in various sequences.
2014
Exodus: Gods and Kings
- Part of lighting team to use Isotropix Clarisse and Double Negative implementation to complete crocodile sequence on Exodus: Gods and Kings.
- Miscellaneous Look Development of Crowd Assets in Renderman
JANUARY 2013 - JULY 2013
EMERYVILLE, CA - USA
2013
Star Trek: Into Darkness
- Responsible for lighting all CG seatbelts shots and 4 Engine room CG extension environment.
- Pre-composed shots for handoff to compositors.
- Used custom tools and wrote custom scripts to handle some lighting tasks.
2013
The Lone Ranger
- Responsible for lighting all CG train extensions on Lone Ranger vs. Fuller train shoot-out.
- Look developed and lit exploding glass FX elements, and prepared pre-comps for handoff to compositors.
2013
Star Trek: Secrets of the Universe Documentary
- Look Deved the USS Enterprise model provided by ILM from the original Movie translating shaders to V-Ray as well as creating special missing shaders.
- Using python scripts to automate the process of converting the 600+ shaders and connecting the 1000+ Textures of the model.
- Camera Layout, Lighting and Rendering
