Show setup including color pipeline, deliverables, and DCC apps. Deeper involvement in show strategy, recruiting, support, tool development on CG software including Nuke, Maya, Katana, Blender, Houdini, and Unreal. Directed junior engineer on tool needs.

Pipeline development and support in a small shop handling VFX for a wide range of projects in feature film, episodic, commercial, and special venue. Automation with Shotgun (aka Shotgrid/FlowPT) event triggers for creature FX workflows for fur and skin sims. General development and support tasks for tools in Maya and Nuke in a Linux environment. Built fur workflow for Yeti. Workflows to provide previz reference and motion-control data for stop-motion stage. Handled a lot of show setup tasks, most critically color setups in OCIO, becoming the key color specialist at Tippett. Some general IT/Administrative level support as well for file systems, servers, VMs, mostly in Linux, but some in Windows. Occasional Mac desktop support.

Lighting work with occasional asset look adjustments for Hobbs & Shaw. Worked mainly in Clarisse and Nuke. Included lighting on FX elements like smoke and particles like rocks, debris, gravel. (I should have a film credit, but me and several other artists, including leads(!!!), were missed in a production snag)

Mostly lighting in Katana using Arnold and Pixar Renderman and in-house software package 'Zeno', with occasional work in fire/smoke and water drip/mist simulations also in Zeno. Regular participation in technical teams creating or maintaining pipeline-level or package-specific (Maya, Zeno, Katana, Houdini, Nuke) tools, generally coding in Python, often with GUI packages like Qt and FLTK. Also work with the Shotgun database API, developing for it and investigating its viability for somewhat unconventional applications.

Scripts and Tools writing. Majority of code in Python with various GUI packages, most recently PyQt, but also GTK, FLTK, and wxPython. Tool written were generally run via command-line, but also did tools work for Katana, Maya, Zeno, and occasionally Nuke and Shake. Some work in Maya using MEL and Python as well.

Areas of development included automation of media creation, tools to assist with dailies, adding features to simulation software to allow it to run on our render farm, asset/animation check-in.

Assistant TDs also pick up some shot production tasks as well to build up shot experience. I've done lighting for Transformers (2007) and The Last Airbender (2010). I even assisted with some animation for the Star Tours update we did in 2010, cleaning up matchmoves and doing some light ship animation.

Also included training and mentoring of promoted TA's, and general training of artist and production staff where necessary.