History and goals
I have been a generalist artist in the biggest VFX companies in France. I founded and ran a VFX studio for 7 years, learning a lot about managing a team, a show, and clients, from preparation to delivery, as well as building and running a company. I created the first VFX entity in EuropaCorp and managed larger international movies for 6 years at Umedia as a VFX director, handling heavy VFX. I built a team and developed the full workflow and pipeline. I worked at Cinesite in Montreal in 2019 and 2020. With 25 years of experience in the VFX industry, my main goal now is to reach a level of excellence as a VFX supervisor. I am ready to dedicate all my energy, time, motivation, and enthusiasm to achieve this.
EDUCATION
- SUPINFOCOM. fourth year of university. CGI Secondary School, Valenciennes.
Animation short movie creation and direction to approved the final degree - 2-year intensive program prepping for the national artistic schools (Ecole Brousse - Montpellier)
- Advertising & communication Associate Degree. (Two-year technical degree in communication advertising and marketing)
- French high-school diploma. (Business specialized)
PROFESSIONAL SKILLS
- Fluent English
- On Set supervision advanced Knowledge
- Advanced knowledge for quotation and work estimation
- Perfect adaptability to new and in-house software
- Perfect ability to integrate a team and good human contact.
- Advanced knowledge in Nuke – Blender – adobe suite
- Advanced Knowledge of VFX workflow and process
- 3D – stereoscopy: advanced (no experience in 3D conversion)
- Shotgun software: advanced
- R&D language: Python, php, mysql basics
- Grading: basic
- Editing: basic
WORK EXPERIENCE
2023 - 2024
Lead VFX supervisor
- The Walking dead daryl dixon season 2 | US AMC TV show2022
VFX supervisor
- The Newlook (Dior’s Biopic) | US Apple TV show
- Les derniers Hommes Feature Film dir : David Oelhoffen - Prod : Galatée2021
LTT (french virtual production company) VFX supervisor French TV series.
On set VFX supervisor - Serpent Queen - US LionsGate TV show2019 - 2020
Cinesite Montreal VFX supervisor on Halo TV show2013 – 2019
Umedia VFX (Belgium) VFX supervisor /VFX director
VFX supervision from prep to delivery including Onset supervision
. Workflow and pipeline supervision including roadmap Management for R&D and TD (4 people). Support for other supervisor. I organized and created the DI department. I arrived in 2013 we were 5 and I left in 2019 with 100 artists 4 persons in R&D team, 3 people in DI team. I was one of the main person who setup that VFX department2013
EUROPA CORP.VFX supervisor
«3days to kill» director Mc G VFX supervision on set.
« les invincibles » director Frederic Berthe VFX supervision from prep, on set supervision, until delivery2012
EUROPA CORP.VFX supervisor
« A l’Aveugle » Director: Xavier Palud , VFX supervision from prep, on set sup, until delivery
PARTIZAN Midi Minuit. VFX supervisor
Commercial on set supervision, team creation, Project management until delivery
GEORGES MELIES high School teacher
Nuke and VFX supervision teacher
EUROPA CORP. Vfx supervisor Europa corp.
« Intersection » Director: David Marconi. On set supervision, team creation, Project management until delivery.2011
EUROPA CORP. Studio creation - VFX supervisor
VFX studio Creation.
Feature film VFX Prep “Taken 2” Director: Olivier Megaton
Feature film Vfx supervisor « A l’Aveugle » de xavier Palud (prep, quote and onset supervision)
ART FX VFX french high school
On set supervision and stereoscopy teacher
DURAN-DUBOI
Feature film quote and estimation for stereoscopy projects
Feature film senior compositing artist « la vérité si je mens »2010
WAM Publicis CGI &VFX Supervisor
CG team creation – CG pipeline creation – onset supervision
BUF compagnie / Gang films VFX producer for stereoscopy commercial “Carte noire”.
That project have been achieved in BUF compagnie and I supervised the postproduction from the prep to delivery including production bidding.
EUROPA CORP. overall VFX supervisor for Europa copr. production.
“Le souffle” 3min Corporate short film movie for “renault” full CGI stereoscopy bidding project, technical estimation, vendor choice with production and director, overall supervision in the chosen studio (digital district)
DIGITAL DISTRICT VFX supervisor
On set supervision for feature film « les aventures de philibert » and VFX supervision of 8 commercials.2003
I founded “Escape Studio” VFX studio
Escape Studio was a team of 30 persons I had a shareholder managing accounting and IT.
I was managing client relations and VFX supervision. We were working 80% for commercial and 20% for feature film.
We decided to stop our activities in 2010 because the direction we were taking was not aligned with our first idea and reason who pushed us to create that studio.2000
MACGUFF ligne Generalist artist/CG supervisor1997
BUF compagnie Generalist artist
MISCELLANEOUS
- Passionate about graphic arts and painting
- Scuba diving passionate (3* CMAS)
- Passionate about photo and especially under water photo
- Guitar player.