Cv and Resume

Objective

I am a CG generalist but specializing in the field of Lighting at the moment. My favorite jobs are Lighting and rendering, character modeling, texturing/shading, animation, concept art and composting. I'm always eager to learn new skills that will make me do the job to the best of my ability. I want to work with a team that has ambition and a professional attitude towards the job at hand a team that is uplifting and strives for progress.

Experience

Sunrise Productions, Cape Town, South Africa

May 2009 - July 2009

Lighting and Compositing artist on Jungle Beat

• Lighting a 5 min short film
• Creating Light rigs and render pipeline in Renderman For Maya
• Compositing in Nuke
  

Character Matters, Cape Town, South Africa

September 2007 - March 2009

Lighting Supervisor on Zoovolution Pilot

• Supervising a team of lighting artists to make a Animated TV pilot
  
• Creating Environmental Light rigs for environments in the show
  
• Shot lighting on many shots of  animated characters
  
• Render Production Pipeline supervision and RND
• Character modeling and texturing
• Concept Art
  

Lighting Supervisor on Lion of Judah (Animated Feature Film- Release Q4 2009) 

• Supervising a team of lighting artists in Feature Film
  
• Creating Environmental Light rigs for all environments
  
• Shot lighting on many shots of  animated characters
  
• Render Production Pipeline supervision and RND
• Composting
  
• High rez prop modeling and texturing
  

Ambient Animation Studios , Cape Town

April 2007 -  September 2007

Animation Generalist

• Character modeling and texturing
  
• Lighting and rendering
• Pipeline RND
  

Lighthouse SFX ,  Cape Town

March 2007 - April 2007

Animation Internship

• Dynamics and composting RND
• Character Modeling and texturing
• Environment Modeling
• Character Design

CFX ,  Cape Town

Dec 2006, Feb 2007

Freelance Assistant Sculptor on 10000 BC

• Assisting with sculpturing bones for huts on 10000 BC
• Shaping of Giant fruit for commercial

Education

                CG Society

                Lighting and rendering by Jeremy Birn

                Workshop

                City Varsity

                Advanced Diploma Animation Film and Television

                City Varsity

                Diploma Animation for Film and Television

                (2D and 3D)

               College of Cape Town

               NSC and NIC certificates          

Skills

Maya
Lightwave
Zbrush
Nuke
Fusion
3d Max
Photoshop
Painter
Premier Pro
Body Paint
XSI

Rendering engines:

Renderman for Maya
Mental Ray
Lightwave

Interests

• Traditional/Digital Art
• Photography
• Music (guitar)
  
• Computer Gaming