Alessandro Cangelosi

Work History

• Generalist TD / Lighting TD / FX TD

  Self Employed

  April 2008 - July 2018
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  Generalist TD / Lighting TD / FX TD

  Renkewitz Studios

  January 2009 - September 2016

  Dead Rising 3 TV Spot
  Mad Max Videogame
  Wolfstein : New Order
  Tales from the Borderlands Teaser
  Ghostbusters Videogame Cinematics
  Prince of Persia : The Forgotten Sands Trailer
  Heroes of Telhara Trailer
  Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows teaser
  Toshiba Thrive Tablet commercial
  Nickelodeon Monkey teaser
  Red Faction:Armageddon teaser
  Gotham City Impostors teaser
  007 teaser
  Lord of the Rings "Guardians of Middle Earth" character skills cinematics

  

  

  
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  CG supervisor

  Why Worry Production

  October 2015 - May 2016

  
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  Head of 3D / Generalist TD

  metaphyx

  January 2010 - February 2016

  My work at Metaphyx is to be the 3D department supervisor, but I work on FX shots mainly as Lighting TD, FX TD and generalist technical problem solving.

• FX TD

  Cum m+d

  July 2014 - January 2016

• Mentor

  CGCookie Inc.

  March 2009 - March 2015

  I work for CGCookie Inc. since the beginning when Wes Burke founded it. I'm main instructor for 3ds max tutorials on the MaxCookie website. Usually I prepare video tutorials for particle fx, fluid dynamic, lighting, shading and rendering.
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  Lighting TD / 3D Artist

  TurboSquid

  June 2012 - March 2014

  VRay Training, Modeling, Rendering R&D, Lighting&Rendering;
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  Lighting TD

  Frame by Frame

  January 2012 - February 2012

  Working as Lighting TD on some commercials using 3ds max, FinalRender.

• FX TD

  Studio 56

  January 2012 - February 2012

  FX TD for particle fx, dust, debris, smoke and water fluid dynamic for Suzuki XAV prototype presentation. I used mainly 3ds max, Particle Flow, Krakatoa, Realflow, Frost, FumeFX.
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  FX TD

  Mainframe

  December 2011 - February 2012

  I worked at Mainframe as FX TD to add particle fx and fluid dynamic for Trident Neon Fu commercial working mainly with 3ds max, Particle Flow, FumeFX and Krakatoa.

• Technical Director

  Helvet Collective

  January 2011 - January 2012

• Generalist TD / Lighting TD

  Inx Imagine

  July 2010 - November 2010

  Undisclosed new 3D feature film project. I worked mainly as Lighting TD preparing shaders and lighting rig in 3ds max with VRay. I had to add some secondary effects as particles, fluid dynamic and hair/fur, using various tools as PFlow, Hairfarm and Realflow.
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  Instructor

  Gnomon School of Visual Effects

  January 2010 - June 2010

  Look development with Mental Ray DVD (released in April 2010)
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  Generalist TD / Lighting TD

  LUXX Studios

  June 2009 - October 2009

  I worked mainly on procedural shading for natural environment. I modeled some rocky environment using Mudbox and 3ds max, then I had to focus on realistic ocean rendering with procedural foam generation.
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  Shader TD

  Pixomondo

  November 2008 - January 2009

  Shader TD on 2012 movie by Roland Emmerich creating procedural shaders to control natural phenomena as rocks, snow and ice over mountain envinronment.

  

• Technical Director

  3D|Eutig

  July 2008 - December 2008

• CEO | technical director

  rebelThink srl

  April 2004 - April 2008

• Instructor

  Proxima SFX

  July 2006 - June 2007

• Technical Director Generalist

  rebelThink srl / THESIGN digital pictures entertai

  October 2006 - January 2007

• Senior 3D artist

  263Films Spa / Thesign Digital Pictures Entertainm

  January 2006 - April 2006

  Senior 3D artist for "Dear Anne" 3D Feature Film, specialized on human shaders and hair simulation

• FX technical director

  ASP Cinematografica srl

  January 2005 - December 2005

  FX TD for the "X and I" 3D feature film

• HoD & shader artist

  rebelThink.01 srl

  April 2002 - December 2004

  Development Manager and shader artist for the development of Natural:shaders plug-in distributed by Turbosquid Inc and officially presented at Siggraph 2004, (CA, Los Angeles)

• 3D Artist & Compositor

  RAI Television

  January 2002 - June 2004

• 3D Artist & Compositor

  Imagimotion VFX

  January 2000 - April 2002

  FX artist at Cinecittà Studios for various movies.

• Demo Artist

  Discreet Inc / Videoprogetti Srl

  January 2000 - August 2001

  Demo Artist of the 3ds max software

• Instructor

  Istituto Quasar srl

  January 1999 - April 2000

  Instructor for 3ds max courses

• 3D Artist

  Film Group International srl

  February 1995 - October 1998