Jaroslav Polensky

Jaroslav Polensky

Freelance animator and lookup development artist.

Senior Animator / Senior Lighting Artist / 17 yrs

London

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Animator

Hatching (2022)

Senior 3D Artist

The Painted Bird (2020)

Animator

Midway (2019)

Animator

Carnival Row (2019)

Animator

Siren (2018)

Animator

Point Break (2015)

Animator

Lost World (2011)

Planet Dinosaur (2011)

Senior Animator

Greed (2008)

3D Animator / Visual Effects Supervisor

Tristan + Isolde (2006)

Siegfried (2005)

Inuit - pilot for TV series

The Watermill Princes 2 - movie

Harveys Furniture - commercial

Motorola Peble-commercial

FrontLine - commercial

Ford DOGBOT - commercial

My Pet Dinosaur - BBC

Talk Talk - commercial

I have worked at various levels in the postproduction industry for more than fifteen years. I started as a 3D animator, later I worked as a Flame artist and finally I did VFX supervision. For the past seven years I’ve been working as a 3D artist for the high-profile companies such as Glassworks, The Mill, Rushes, Prime Focus, Passion Pictures, etc. Mostly I collaborated on commercial projects but also have experience with VFX film and series production. I worked as a lead animator on high-profile TV series “Planet Dinosaur” (Jellyfish Pictures) in the year 2009, I lead a small team of animators with Inspire GLG on pilot TV series “Inuit” and I have also worked as a VFX supervisor on Tristan and Isolde film project (2006 Dir. Kevin Reynolds). You can find many samples of my work on www.jaropole.co.uk or in my showreel. My responsibilities include character animation, lighting, design of 3D characters as well as 2D composition. I am also proficient in the following softwares: Maya, Motion Builder , Zbrush, XSI, Nuke, Mudbox and Photoshop.
Work History

  • Character Animator

    R.U.R.

    April 2018 - May 2018
    Prague, Czech Republic

  • 3D Animator

    Atomic Arts

    December 2017 - March 2018

  • Character Animator

    Aardman Animations

    October 2017 - December 2017

  • Animator

    MPC

    July 2017 - October 2017

  • Modeller

    Rushes

    May 2017 - June 2017
    London, United Kingdom

    digital doubles

  • lighting artist

    Glassworks

    April 2017 - April 2017
    London, United Kingdom

  • 3D Animator

    R.U.R.

    February 2017 - March 2017
    Prague, Czech Republic

    Modelling, lookup development

  • Character Animator

    Hoxton Redsox

    November 2016 - December 2016
    London, United Kingdom

    Gruffalo at Chessington - commercial

  • Character Animator

    VFX Vault, Ltd

    August 2016 - September 2016

  • Lighting Rendering

    Hoxton Redsox

    July 2016 - July 2016

  • Lighting Artist

    Glassworks

    January 2015 - June 2016

    Lighting and Render Setups, using RedShift

  • Senior animator, lighting

    Universal Production Partners

    December 2014 - June 2016

    Maya animator , Arnold renderer

  • Generalist

    ground ctrl

    April 2016 - May 2016

  • 3D Animator

    Glassworks

    March 2016 - March 2016

  • 3D Generalist

    Fluid Pictures

    February 2016 - February 2016

  • 3D Modeller, Lighting artist, Shader setups

    Glassworks

    September 2014 - November 2014

    Softimage , Redshift renderer

  • 3D Lighting Artist

    Passion Pictures

    August 2014 - August 2014

    Softimage Arnold renderer

  • Particle animation XSI ICE

    Not To Scale

    July 2014 - July 2014

  • Lighting Artist

    Jellyfish Pictures

    2014 - June 2014

  • 3D Generalist

    Fluid Pictures

    February 2014 - April 2014

  • 3D Animator/Generalist

    Glassworks

    August 2013 - January 2014

  • Particle animation

    Not To Scale

    2014 - 2014

  • Particle animation

    Not To Scale

    2014 - 2014

  • Maya animator, XSI modeller, Arnold render setup

    Prime Focus World

    July 2013 - August 2013

    Duracel Bunny

  • XSI Generalist

    Sehsucht GmbH

    May 2013 - June 2013

    ICE simulation of the growing grass and bushes

  • Lead character animator

    Not To Scale

    March 2013 - April 2013

    Leading animator on the full 3D animated commercial, 40 sec

  • XSI Generalist

    Glassworks

    February 2013 - March 2013

    HSBC Mint - I did the crowd simulation of the people in the Stadium. Softimage ICE, CrowdFX

  • Maya character animator

    Prime Focus Commercials

    January 2013 - February 2013

    I animated Duracell Bunny character for the commercial

  • Animator/generalist

    Glassworks

    January 2012 - November 2012

  • Lighter, render setups

    Prime Focus World

    October 2011 - January 2012

  • Lighter, modeller

    Glassworks

    July 2011 - September 2011

    Volvo XC60 commercial, Johnny Walker commercial

  • Lighter, render setups

    Passion Pictures

    April 2011 - July 2011

    I did lighting for the Meerkat commercial, Audi Le Mans commercial - lighting 2D compostion

  • Character animator

    Glassworks

    February 2011 - March 2011

    Animated Ninja Warriors for the Frontline commercials

  • Senior character animator

    Jellyfish Pictures

    April 2010 - January 2011

    I am currently working as a character animator /biped and quadruped creatures/

  • Senior character animator

    Inspire GLG

    2009 - 2010

  • 3D animator, matchmover

    The Mill

    2009 - 2009

  • XSI generalist

    Glassworks

    2007 - 2009

  • VFX supervisor, Flame/Inferno artist, 3D animator

    Universal Production Partners

    1997 - 2006
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Education

  • České vysoké učení technické v Praze

    1987 - 1992