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Jaroslav Polensky

Freelance animator and lookup development artist.

Senior Animator / Senior Lighting Artist / 17 yrs

London

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Animator

The Watermill Princes 2 - movie

Harveys Furniture - 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