CG Supervisor

...a long time Renderman Advocate, converted to Arnold-ism.
CG Sup, Lighter, Look dev & groomer by trade, developer by heart.

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Currently I'm the CG Supervisor in Andy Serki’s Animal Farm,
Cg Supervisor for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Mutant Mayhem (2023)
 (Watch the trailer!) at Cinesite’s
feature animation, Montreal. Formerly a CG Supervisor in HitPig (2023) (Watch the trailer!),
and Gaffer TD
at Cinesite,Development Lighting Supervisor for Hasbro's My Little Pony New Generation.
CG supervisor at Brownbag films , for Angela's Christmas (2017) (Watch the trailer!)
I Used to be CG supervisor for the Development Team in BrownBag Films,
and before that!... the Lighting Pipeline Supervisor, for TV Shows such as
Octonauts (CBeebies/BBC), Doc McStuffins (Disney junior),Henry Hugglemonsters (Disney junior),
Stinky and Dirty (Amazon primetime), Peter Rabbit (Nickelodeon), Bing Bunny (CBeebies/BBC).

Strong background on lighting and look development.
Solid skills in shader writing, python, C/C++, pipeline, katana, gaffer, bash, web technologies as javascript,
php & mariadb/mysql with extensive Red Hat linux certifications.

Specialized in Lighting, Shading, fur/hair, and Compositing. But over a decade of experience in all the CG departments.
From lead rigger, modeler, motion capture operator and cleaner, animator ...you name it... I probably did it at some point.

With a know how of the technical and aestethical aspects of practical lighting techniques as a photographer.
Don't forget to drop by my photosite to see some practical lighting!

Gaffer in Cinesite Feature animation

Siggraph presentation on Gaffer at Cinesite Feature Animation

Open source things

LDTGaffer

Gaffer custom nodes, viewport shaders, boxes, examples, customizations, etc.

Gaffer production examples

Production templates for multishot and assets turntables.
Includes full assets and textures Creative commons license (see individual licenses)

Nuke ODT ACES-sRGB-D60-Sim.

Nuke line by line implementation of OCES to sRGBd60 from Aces using nuke nodes.
Inspired by Alex Fry’s P3D60 nuke node.

EZLookdevTools

A tool set for maya, katana, gaffer, and nuke for surfacing and look development.

Production calculators

Keen io, Keen Dashboard, Jquery, JS, JQuery, google charts, and d3 Pert based calculators for CG productions with probabilities.
A small project to validate projections against an inhouse system.

Fur & Skin shaders

DISCONTINUED: 3delight and renderman shaders from Back in the day, where fur and skin shaders where not available out of the box.

Raw contact Sheet Generator

Uses DCRaw,Exifv2 and PIL to create thumbnails inspired in old times transparency slides with custom info.
Specially useful for fast thumbnailing of big medium format raw files.

Digital Medium Format & Practical Lighting

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In the bag

Old Phase One loyal user, turned hasselblad but hated it, end up with Sony

Camera

  • Sony FX3

  • Hasselblad X1D

  • Phase One P25+

  • Lee 105mm Circular Polarizer (CPL)

  • Lee 100x150 Hard Set

  • Lee 100x150 Soft Set

  • Gitzo Traveler 6x Carbon Fiber

  • arca-swiss Monoball

  • Gitzo center ball head

  • Manfrotto 500 Fluid Head

Flash and Misc

  • Profoto B1

  • 3 Profoto Air transceivers

  • soft Box RFi 2'x3'

  • Profoto new zoom reflector

  • Profoto 10' grid

  • Pelican case 1500

  • Underwater Kinetics Case

  • Manfrotto light Stand

  • Manfrotto 190XDB Tripod