Resume
PERSONAL DETAILS:
Name:
Edmond Krasinski Engelbrecht
Address:
Vancouver Canada
Current Employment: SPIN VFX (going on 2 yrs).www.spinpro.com
Im currently a Senior Lighting TD/Lead at Spin VFX Vancouver Canada completing films, television and commercial projects in 2k/HD. Making shaders, co-ordinating lighting team, completing assets,and light rigs for other lighters. Lighting and Development for all major shots as well as compositing look development and shot finishing. Tools dev. Farm/pipeline work. General TD work in all areas of 3d. Trouble-shoot technical problems that arise in our Vancouver and Toronto studios
EDUCATION:
1993-Present :
Murdoch University Bachelor of Multimedia Graduate 2004
At University I studied Multimedia, Computer Graphics and Film making. The computer graphics course was slim so like many I am self tought. The Film course was fantastic and I really enjoyed getting behind a camera and lighting.
Scholarship to Apple World Wide Developeres Conference 2001
Interests:
CG Lighting
3D Animation
Digital Matte Painting
2D Compositing
Visual FX in General
Design
Drama / Storytelling
Working in Team situations
Science Fiction
Factual Science
WORK HISTORY:
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Facility Contracts
2003 - current - Freelance Visual FX Artist Outlander , Senior Lighting TD I arrived as a lighter but quickley had to become very invloved in getting
the render farm consistant and also modifying and creating some tools
to help the lighting team. I sorted out shaders and rigs for a large spaceship
crash sequence. The biggest attention was how to render such big scenes.
Also organised one of our td's to create some sl shaders with various
outputs aswell as doing some simple hacking myself. I composited our largest
shot of 5 spaceships chasing down and shooting 3 Alien beasts on an Alien
planet. We ued Mayaman and Air for all lighting apart from efx. I was given a fulltime position to help our new Pipeline TD create and
cleanup the pipeline for future work. I also created the frist launcher for Spin West and maintained the maya environemnt until it was superceded by a much smarter toolset by our Pipeline supervisor Revulsion (feature)- SPIN VFX CG Supervisor/Character TD/Animator/Senior Lighting TD/Compostior. Psych (series) .. ahh the one with the golf balls.. - SPIN VFX Senior Lighting TD Impact (feature) - SPIN VFX Senior Lighting TD/Asset lead/conecpt artist, played a very major role getting destruction sequences complete from beginning to end Psych (series)dare devils - SPIN VFX Senior Lighting TD/3D lead, oversaw asset production for the show, lit and composited all 3d Bodog (shark-TVC) - SPIN VFX Senior Lighting TD Bodog (shark-TVC) - SPIN VFX Senior Lighting TD Rogers (Flying Videos-TVC) - SPIN VFX Senior Lighting TD Outlander (feature)- SPIN VFX Senior Lighting TD/Compositor/Matte Painter, played a significant role in getting Outlander finished in the Vancouver studio Photon VFX Gold Coast Look Dev TD I spent a few weeks doing lighting development for a tv series based
on a furry cherub like creature. This was very fun and the result was
nice. I used Shave and a Haircut and maya software to shell out the look
for the MIP promo. The series was sucessfully created in Auckland. Narnia|Prince Caspian - Previs Artist, Previs
Technical Director. I created tools in Mel to help speed up the workflow for artists based on my observations as an Artist using the current workflow. I Also created special charcater rig modifications for realtime FX to reduce bottlenecks from the current workflow Frank Millers 300 - Animal Logic 3D VFX Keyligher, Sequence
Lead, Texture Painter, Shader creation, email me for my 3D Leads contact
details Happy Feet Animal Logic Film Lighting TD ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Freelance Artist
CG Supervisor/Character TD Cool
Breeze http://coolbreezeshort.com/
Below are some early poses of the rig before I got called away and couldn't
work on them for a long time (they are now using a rigging tool since I am
unable to contribute and support them), I have had to co-ordinate several
people including a facial modeler and the facial system TD.
CG Production (all aspects including Concept. Modeling, Texturing, Rigging and Animation) Karnivool Music Video, Themata
Post Production Consultant /VFX Artist Ransis and Alee, http://www.ransisandalee.com/
Previz Born Free, Lotteries TVC. All shots were created in 3D and cut into an animatic which was used on set along side the camera data and other measurements
Animation Centrlink ,Cheese Productions
Animation State budget:Metro ,Cheese Productions
Animation Red Rooster Meal Steals , 303/Cheese Productions
Titles/Color Grade "Picture Showman" Documentary
2005 Senior Animation/Visual FX Lecturer , WA School of Art and Design
Chrysalis animated film, Technical Advisor/Character Rigger
Visual FX for "Phaid" (Shadomn Sequence) Screenwest
Modeler "Southern District Hospital" Department of Health, election 2005
Nominated for Western Australian Young Filmmaker of the Year 2005
Visual FX for "Ripple on the Tide" Josh Arnold (Music Video)
Titles/Color Grade "Lilly Street Lasagna Bakeoff" Documentary
Titles "No School No Pool" Documentary Screenwest/ABC
Visual FX (Flame/explosion composite sequence) Cyron
Animation design for "Tastec Filter System" Kent Cigarettes Tokyo 3 x Commercials
Visual FX for "Heart and Minds" Chris Scully (Digital Blood FX)
Visual FX for "Foreign Exchange" (Wire Removal) Screenwest
Visual FX for "The Save" Jeff Lang (Music Video)
Visual FX for "Horizon" (Omni theatre) TV Commercial
Western Australian Screen Award for Visual FX :"Sam and The Green Men" -
-Cinematography/VFX Technical Director/Visual FX/Colour Grade
Visual FX for 'THE WAIFS" Music video "Bridal Train " 3D Animation /Digital Matte Artist
Visual FX for Screenwest/Australian Film Commission Production "Victim" 3D Animation
Visual FX for SBS/Showtime/Screenwest Short Feature "Roll" 2D/3D Animation
Colour Timing for 2003 WAPPA film "Disturbed" Directed by Corrie Jones
Opening Title Design for Discovery Euroupe/Canada/Screenwest Documentary "SnakeBuster"
Visual FX for "DIESEL" Music Video "Angel Face" 60 matchmoves + 3D animations in 3 weeks
Visual FX for "Spencer Tracy" Rotoscope Artist
Cinematography/Post Production "Mono"
Rugby World Cup 2003
Stadium Live statistics operator, provided real-time graphical overlays downstreamed over the Channel 7 dirty feed which was displayed on the Clipsal Vision screens during all of the Perth matches.
2005 Senior Animation/Visual FX Lecturer , WA School of Art and Design
I trained students up on current production techniques for creating cutting edge animation projects and to help fuel the states need for local talent. The curriculum takes students from novice to the ability to create well designed rigged and animated project within a year to complete their qualification.
2004 - Visual FX Artist, Post Production IT Support
In 2003-2004 I was a Freelancer with Association to Bard Films and Siamese. I have worked as a Visual FX Artist and 3D/2D/2 1/2 D Animator on several various productions including Music Videos, TVCs, Drama's, Live Sport and Documentary. My other position was as IT support for Bard Films where I set up the infrastructure for the new office which meant the following:
Centralising Job data by building a large file server.
Rebuilding all of the workstations for virus protection
Planning with Post Production Team for logical file/job workflow for the new servers.
All aspects for Post Production Facility maintenance.
Setup of the Siamese and Bardfilms websites
And many other areas of IT support
2002 - Murdoch University Division of Business, IT and Law
Taught C339 Advertising Production for the Division of Business, IT and Law in Murdoch University's EM2 Multimedia Marketing Lab. I made up a curriculum and carried the students through the semester as I was completing 3 units during so. I taught students graphic design, video production, Audio production and concepts required in order to fulfil a clients requirements. The aim of the course is to give Business students the ability to know the technology that they are implementing.
At the same time as this course was commencing we had to allow IT to teach Unix on the PowerMac's so I installed Mac OSX and worked with the main Unix Guy, it was rather simple to get OSX authenticating into the Sun Enterprise server through NIS. Of course I did require some instructions from the Unix administrator but this gave me a foot up into the world of Unix.
2000-2002 - Network Technician : Murdoch University Division of Business, IT and Law
In the second week of my first semester I started working as the technical support base for Dr Duane Varan's EM2 Multimedia Marketing lab. Students are taught general graphical work in semester 1 of their Marketing and the Media Degree and advanced Animation in the second. All students learn ElectricImage Animation System in the second semester. My duties were to maintain all aspects of the Lab technically and I have provided some support for Duane's new ITRI (Interactive Television research Centre). Technical aspects of dealing with the graphics workstations included:
*Maintaining usability of Media100 and ElectricImage Animation Systems
*Maintain Network and Servers
*Maintain the Divisions Mac network across several Faculties
In May of 2001
I was offered a scholarship to represent Murdoch University as the student representative. Dr Tom Gedeon (Head of IT at Murdoch University) a fellow co-worker put my name forward for nomination, which I accepted. The scholarship was to visit Apple's California base for a conference known as WWDC (World Wide Developers Conference) where I met Mr Joe Letteri -Visual Effects Supervisor of ILM. The conference was very intense and lasted 12 days. The Apple University Consortium paid for all my fees, accommodation and living expenses.
Software Knowledge base:
PrMan and Air via Mayaman interface. Also debugging RIB and SL
Mel and Python coding
small amount of SL code for creating AOVs
Maya Complete/Unlimited
Shake
Final Cut Pro
Lightwave 6 - 7.5c (probably redundant now)
Photoshop
Illustrator
After Effects
Media 100 (probably redundant now)
REALVIZ : Matchmover Pro 2 - 3
Macromedia Director (probably redundant now)
Microsoft Office (obviously)
Commotion (redundant now)
Pro-Tools Digital Audio
DVD Studio Pro
Computer power user, OSX, Windows, Linux (can get around)
Unix cmd line experience