Douglas Addy

Work History

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  Look Dev and Lighting Supervisor

  SPIN VFX

  July 2013 - Present
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  LightingTD

  SPIN VFX

  November 2012 - Present

  
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  Lighting TD

  Sony Pictures Imageworks

  January 2011 - June 2012

  “The Amazing Spider-man” 12.11-06.12
  Lighter/Compositor
  
  Set up image based lighting rigs
  Character and environment lighting
  Compositing shots with Nuke
  Wrote pipeline tools for Nuke and Katana
  Created and rendered stereoscopic rigs for native 3d footage
  
  “Arthur Christmas” 01.11-09.11
  Lighter/Compositor
  
  Character and environment lighting
  Created tools, rigs and set up Levels of detail to ease the transition of large crowds ( <10,000) from fx to lighting
  Compositing shots with Katana
  Wrote pipeline tools for Katana in my spare t

  
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  Lighter

  Walt Disney Animation Studios

  2010 - January 2011

  “Mars Needs Moms” 09.10-11.10
  Lighter/Compositor
  
  Shot setup and lighting using IMD's Proprietary lighting package (in which I learned in 1 week)
  Compositing in Nuke
  
  “Tangled” 02.10-09.10
  Lighter/Compositor
  
  I was responsible for character and environment lighting from painted keys
  Setting up custom rigs to propagate to co-workers
  Invented and created custom tools and processes to aid with lighting tasks
  Taught classes on techniques and
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  Shot Finaler

  Walt Disney Animation Studios

  January 2008 - January 2011

  Lighting/ Compositing

  

  
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  Shot finaling ATD

  Walt Disney Animation Studios

  2008 - January 2011

  “Tick Tock Tale” (short) 07.09-02.10
  Lighter/Compositor/Shader/Pipeline ATD
  
  I was responsible for character and environment lighting from painted keys
  Setting up custom rigs to propagate to co-workers
  Wrote custom shades and pipeline tools
  Aided in all areas of production including tech-anim and look development
  Trained peers and the “Talent Development” group the tools and processes I created
  
  “Super Rhino” (short) 09.08-12.08
  Lighting /Compositing A

  

  
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  Associate Technical Director

  Sony Pictures Imageworks

  August 2007 - October 2007

  “Beowulf” 08.07-11.07
  Lighting /Compositing ATD
  
  2D to 3d Stereoscopic rendering and Compositing with Katana and Shake.
  Solved all rendering artifacts and technical issues.