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Brent Elliott
Look Development / Pipeline / Generalist
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BrentElliott
(310)595-6877
30 Upper Fremont Dr.
San Rafael, CA 94901
hello@brentelliott.com
www.brentelliott.com
Objective
A technical director position in animation or visual effects, using my experience in problem solving, delivering shows, and supervising great teams.
Profile
Look Development TD / Pipeline TD / Generalist
Work experience: Lighting, shaders, pipeline development, scripting, GUIs, rendering, compositing, modeling, texture painting, UVs
Software experience: Maya, Python, MEL, mental ray, Renderman, Nuke, Shake, Photoshop, Illustrator, ZBrush, Headus UV Layout
Visual Effects Society Award: 2006 - Best Miniseries - "Stephen King's Nightmares & Dreamscapes" (Episode: Battleground)
Work History
ImageMovers Digital 9/2008 - present
Look Development Technical Director
Look development on hero characters, costumes, and all crowd and background characters
Wrote workflow enhancement scripts for the surfacing department, including a user-friendly GUI for assembling assets from multiple departments into a ready-to-render turntable
Developed extensive tools for integrating surfacing and crowds departments
Created tools for generating random material variations on background characters, and allowing for flexible art direction
The Jim Henson Company 6/2005 - 8/2008
Lead Technical Director / Look Development / Pipeline Developer
Worked closely with art directors to develop CG look for multiple shows
Supervised lighting and texturing teams, reducing render farm memory requirements by 50% with custom optimization tools
Designed a comprehensive render layer system that achieved an almost 100% automatic setup for lighters
Developed pipeline, baking, rendering and scene assembly tools
Directed artist workflow in areas from asset management to rendering
Gnomon School of Visual Effects 4/2008 - 9/2008
Instructor / Look Development
Created and instructed Gnomon's first Look Development curriculum
Designed a class wiki where students received continually updated notes and answers to questions
Education
Gnomon School of Visual Effects - CG Certificate (3/2003-12/2004)
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Contact
Brent Elliott
30 Upper Fremont Dr.
San Rafael, CA 94901Cell:(310)595-6877
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