Matthieu Paugam

Matthieu Paugam

Senior Lighting TD / Look Dev TD / 11 yrs

Montreal, Canada

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Digital Artist

Damsel (2024)

Lead Visual Effects Lighting TD

Ghosted (2023)

Lead Lighting TD

The Pale Blue Eye (2023)

Lead Lighting TD

Matilda (2022)

Lighting Supervisor

House of the Dragon (2022)

Lead Lighting TD

Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty (2022)

Lead Lighting TD

Moonfall (2022)

Lighting Technical Director

The Suicide Squad (2021)

Lighting TD

The Tomorrow War (2021)

Lighting TD

Army of the Dead (2021)

Lighting TD

Alien: Covenant (2021)

Lead Lighting TD

See (2019)

Visual Effects Artist

Catch-22 (2019)

Lead Lighting TD

The Umbrella Academy (2019)

Lighting TD

The kid who would be king (2019)

Lighting TD

His Dark Materials (2019)

Lighting TD

2.0 (2018)

Lighting TD

Robin Hood (2018)

Senior Lighting TD

The Commuter (2018)

Lighting TD

Justice League (2017)

Lighting TD

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017)

Lighting TD

Passengers (2016)

Lighting & Look Dev TD

Captain America: Civil War (2016)

Lighting & Look Dev TD

Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)

Lighting & Lookdev Technical Director / Lighting Technical Director

Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands (2016)

Lead Lighting TD

Thunderbirds Are Go! (2016)

Lighting TD junior

The Jungle Book (2016)

Lighting & Look Dev TD

Beowulf

I am a Lighting TD and have worked on a large range of productions from TV Shows to both Animation and Feature Films as Lead Lighting TD, Lighting TD & Look Development TD. I consider myself as a 3D Generalist, but with strong Lighting / Lookdev / Texturing / Compositing skills & knowledge. Thanks to my several studios experience and my 3D Generalist degree course at ESMA, I have gained skills in various production environments and in a variety of software & renderers (see details below). My knowledge of all stages of the pipeline allows me to communicate with others and contribute successfully to the visual effects process and my 2 years experience as a Stage Lighting Technician was a huge plus all along my career.

I am motivated, creative, organized and autonomous and most importantly, I’m adaptive. Learning new tools, pipelines, workflows or techniques was never a problem for me. Anything new to me is a new challenge, so when I learn something, I try to apply it to my work immediately, master it and develop it. I am able to very quickly and easily adapt to the different workflows and pipeline a company may have.

I believe that I have a strong professional work ethic. I'm a team player, who absorb, understand and consider all ideas and points of view from other people. I am willing to share information & knowledge and I believe that a good communication & and fun is the best way to craft amazing images.

[ SPECIALITIES ]

• LOOKDEV / LIGHTING - Shot & Sequence Lighting, Character / Environment / FX LookDev, Render Optimization with Raytracer and Pathtracers, Good troubleshooting and problem solving skills
• TEXTURING - Hard/Organic Surface Hand Painting, Procedural Texturing

[ SOFTWARE ]

• 3D - Maya, Katana, Clarisse, 3ds Max, Mudbox, Zbrush (basic)
• RENDERING - Arnold, Renderman, Clarisse, Mental Ray
• 2D - Nuke, Fusion, Mari, Photoshop
• OS - Linux, OS X, Windows
• SCRIPTING - Python
Work History

  • Lead Lighting TD

    Pixomondo

    April 2021 - April 2023
    Montréal, Canada

  • Senior Lighting TD

    Framestore

    January 2019 - April 2021
    Montréal, Canada

  • Senior Lighting TD

    Double Negative

    March 2018 - January 2019
    Montreal, Canada

  • Snr Lighting TD

    Cinesite

    May 2017 - February 2018

  • lighting td

    Double Negative

    January 2017 - May 2017

  • lighting td

    MPC

    May 2016 - January 2017

  • lighting td

    Cinesite

    February 2016 - May 2016

  • Lighting & Look Dev TD - Lead Lighting on the Show Thunderbi

    Milk VFX

    February 2015 - February 2016
    London, Royaume-Uni

    - Thunderbirds Are Go! (2015 TV Series) :

    Season 1 - Episodes 18 to 25

    Lead Lighting TD on the Show
    Lighting, Rendering and Pre-Compositing of shots
    Complete Lookdev of the assets to match the ones made by the other studio working on the project
    Work with a local team and remote team
    Lighting and Rendering using Maya and Arnold
    Pre-Compositing with Nuke

  • Lighting Technical Director Junior

    Milk VFX

    February 2015 - June 2015

    - Thunderbirds Are Go! (2015 TV Series) :

    Season 1 - Episodes 13 - 15 - 17

    Lighting, Rendering and Pre-Compositing of shots
    Lookdev - Some props LookDev to match props done by an other studio working on the project / Adjustment and modification of shaders when necessary
    Work with a local team and remote team
    Lighting and Rendering using Maya and Arnold
    Pre-Compositing with Nuke

  • Lighting TD

    MPC

    January 2015 - February 2015
    London, Royaume-Uni

    Lighting TD for features films :
    - The Jungle Book (2016)

  • Co-director of the Short Film "Adult'Hair"

    ESMA - Ecole Supérieure des Métiers Artistiques

    September 2013 - September 2014

    Fully Responsable for the following Parts :
    - Look Development
    - Compositing & Grading
    - City Environment Texturing & Shading
    - Texturing / Look Development / Shading of the Characters

    Important Participation on :
    - Texturing & Shading Props
    - Rendering
    - Pipeline
    - Hair Lighting & Rendering

  • Lead Stage Lighting Technician & Organization Secretary

    Karma Kusala

    October 2011 - July 2014
    Montpellier

    - Stage Design
    - Stage Lighting Design
    - Stage Lighting Supervisor
    - Organisation's Secretary of Karma Kusala from foundation to July 2014
    - Business Plan Elaboration & Commercial Strategy
    - Web Community Managing
    - Team Management (Around 100 people during events, including volunteers)
    - Communication, Flyer Design & Visual Identity

  • Internship

    Pinkanova

    June 2011 - July 2011

    - Realisation of 2D Concepts for Flash Animation
    - Realisation of graphic elements for Motion Design on Photoshop and Illustrator

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Education

  • Ecole Supérieure des Metiers Artistiques

    2011 - 2014

  • École de Communication (ECV)

    2010 - 2011

  • Axe Sud Toulouse

    2009 - 2010