Emanuele Bignone

Work History

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  Senior 3D generalist

  Zoic Studios

  September 2016 - May 2017

  Vancouver, Canada Area

  tasks mainly include: lighting, modelling, look dev, creating trees and vegetation with SpeedTree.
  
  worked on "A series of unfortunate events" TV series season 1
  
  worked on "the 100" tv series season 4

  
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  Senior generalist / look dev / speed tree

  Sony Pictures Imageworks

  May 2015 - March 2016

  Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

  Working on "Alice in wonderland 2"
  
  Creating vegetation using Speed Tree.
  Look dev vegetation and assets in Katana.
  lighting few shots
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  Senior generalist / lighter

  ScanlineVFX

  November 2014 - April 2015

  Vancouver, Canada Area

  worked on "Pan".
  
  I generated procedural environment using 3Dsmax (forest pack plugin) and I sculpted part of the base mesh for the cave environment.
  
  I also worked on custom shots, customizing the layout per shot and creating the lighting / rendering.
  
  Maya, 3Dsmax, Vray, Forest pack.
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  Senior layout artist

  Cinesite

  April 2014 - June 2014

  london, united kingdom

  layout and cache tweak of crowd simulation on "Hercules". Maya+Vray

  

  

• Environment artist / generalist

  Hoxton Redsox

  March 2014 - April 2014

  London, United Kingdom

  Worked on Thorpe Park TV Commercial.
  Look dev CG vegetation and set dressing using a scatter plugin with Vray proxy.
  Rendering vegetation in Maya + Vray
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  Lead lighting and rendering artist

  Ghost VFX

  June 2013 - July 2013

  Copenhagen Area, Denmark

  face replacement (lighting and rendering) on a Pepsi TV ad (maya + Vray)
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  Generalist and lighting artist

  Taylor James

  May 2013 - May 2013

  London, United Kingdom

  helping on 2 projects doing 3D generalist work + lighting in 3Dsmax and Maya
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  Generalist and lighting artist

  Minivegas

  April 2013 - May 2013

  Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

  Worked on a Tv ident for Kanal 5, doing generalist work + the overall lighting and some shading.
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  3D artist

  Happy Finish

  September 2012 - March 2013

  london

  worked on different projects: 3D generalist tasks, mostly still images.
  Also worked on some lowpoly model for unity 3D engine
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  Cloth CFX - Environment - lighting artist

  Double Negative

  June 2011 - June 2012

  london

  Worked on "the Bourne Legacy" as a generalist TD doing face replacement / lighting
  worked on "Total Recall":
  At an early stage of the film i have been testing 'Marvellous Designer' software with Maya in order to find a fast way to create clothes with different LOD for crowd sim.
  Then worked on environments: modeling, texturing and layout.
  Worked on "John Carter of Mars" doing cloth sims on creatures.

  

  
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  Generalist artist

  Framestore

  March 2011 - April 2011

  London, United Kingdom

  worked on a commercial for Canon animating digital doubles, tracking, modeling environments for camera projection.

• Environment / generalist artist

  douglas fisher photograpy

  January 2011 - February 2011

  London, United Kingdom

  Modeling (organic and hard surfaces) in Zbrush, texturing and cloth simulations producing 8K images for a campaign for Carlsberg beer.
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  FX TD and 3D character animator - freelancer

  M-I-E

  October 2010 - December 2010

  Worked as a FX TD on a new George Michael's music video mostly made by particles-fluids.
  Worked on a George Michael's music video as a 3D character animator.
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  Student in 3D animation and VFX - Scholarship project

  Vancouver Film School

  April 2009 - August 2010

  I joined the 3D animation and VFX program at Vancouver Film School (VFS) program as a student.
  After that I won the scholarship at VFS and I partecipate on an Ipad project made by VFS.
  VFX supervisor on the set of a VFS’s film for Ipad from collecting data survey for tracking to green screen. Worked on a few shots on the same project (keying green screen, tracking and replacing the character’s eyes).

• 3D artist

  Js3D.co.uk

  April 2009 - May 2009

  Contractor work. modeling and texturing african buildings for a project for the British Army running on the Unity engine.
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  3D artist

  Rebellion

  February 2007 - May 2008

  I worked on the Simpsons game for PS2, PSP and Wii as an environment artist and on Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron (Battlefront 3) for Ps2 and PSP.

• Sale assistant

  Ryman The stationar - english studies - 3freelance works

  November 2005 - January 2007

  Worked at Rymans as a sale assistant in order to support myself in London while I was improving my english skills.
  I also worked as a freelancer for clients such as SO tv in London (previz on video intro for a Graham Norton show), BonsaiStudio (Italy), Traffico grafico (Italy).

• 3D artist

  Space cannon VH

  August 2004 - May 2005

  Worked on architectural visualizations and lighting simulations on several projects including: F1 Shanghai circuit, Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, Turin 2006 Winter Olympic Games, etc.