Senior Lighting/ Compositing Artist
RESUME
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Passionate and dedicated in creating art, through my lighting and compositing skills. Friendly and effective team member in which Use my skills to the highest of my knowledge to ensure a high quality product.
Work
experience
Reel FX
Lead Lighting and Compositing Artist
October 2022 - Present
Lead Lighting in environmental lighting, key shots, and compositing templates. Working closely with Production Designers/ Art directors creating lighting setups, and seamlessly integrating element. Strong team leadership and collaboration abilities.
Projects:
The Monkey King
SCOOB Holiday Haunt (unrealeased)
Senior Lighting and Compositing Artist
May 2019 - October 2022
Under general supervision and working with the Lighting Supervisor I am responsible setting up Key shots based on color keys, set environment lighting and lead sequences with the help of mid and junior lighters.
Projects:
SCOOB!,
Rumble,
Back to the Outback
Lighting and Compositing Artist
April 2018 - May 2019
for creating and fine-tuning lighting and shadows for assigned shots, rendering layers, and compositing those layers to create the final image.
Projects:
Fort of Hard Knocks - A Best Fiends Animation,
Baby Slug's Big Day Out - A Best Fiends Animation,
Ugly Dolls,
Best Fiends: Temper's Adventure
JANIMATION STUDIOS
3D Generalist
November 2017 - January 2018
3D Generalist, for upcoming animated short Render Wrangler, Lighting, and Compositing
Fiction Films
Freelance After Effects Artist
September 2017 - September 2017
3D Modeled, UV unwrapped, and Textured assets. Composite and animated other assets using the puppet tool.
Projects-Disney toy commercial
DreamWorks Animation
Image Finaling Artist
March 2017 - April 2017
Track patches, rotoscope, digitally paint, frame blending and denoise issues in Nuke. Fixed and adjusted stereo discrepancies. Project: Captain Underpants
Legion Creative Group
Freelance Digital Artist
September 2016 - November 2016
Finishing, Title treatments, masking, retouching, 3D modeling, rendering, and finishing high quality images for clients
Projects- Various
DreamWorks Animation
Image Finaling Artist
July 2016 - September 2016
Track patches, rotoscope, digitally paint, frame blending and denoise issues in Nuke. Fixed and adjusted stereo discrepancies. Project: Trolls
Corgan MediaLab
Freelance 3D Finisher
March 2016 - May 2016
Finished and composite 3D architectural renderings, using techniques such as card projection, rotopaint, keying.
Projects- “JP Morgan Chase Campus”, “LAX Modernization Plan”
DreamWorks Animation
Image Finaling Artist
September 2015 - December 2015
Track patches, rotoscope, digitally paint, frame blending and denoise issues in Nuke. Fixed and adjusted stereo discrepancies. : Project: Kung Fu Panda 3
Reel FX
Jr. Lighting and Compositing Artist
January 2015 - May 2015
Under general supervision of the Lighting Supervisor I was responsible for creating and fine-tuning lighting and shadows for assigned shots, rendering layers, and compositing those layers to create the final image.
Project: ROCKDOG
Skills
MAYA
NUKE
Katana
ARNOLD
REDSHIFT
RENDERMAN
AFTER EFFECTS
PHOTOSHOP
PREMIERE
LINUX
WINDOWS
Languages
ENGLISH
SPANISH
Education
The University of Texas at Dallas
2011-2014
Bachelor's Degree, Arts and Technology
Richland College
2008-2011
Associate's Degree, Interactive Simulation and Game Technology