Andy Whittock

Andy Whittock

Shading TD / Look Dev at Pixar Animation Studios, buffoon.

Lead Shading Artist / 25 yrs

San Francisco, CA

Hire Me

Sets Shading Lead

Luca (2021)

Sets Technical Assistant

Soul (2020)

Sets Shading Lead

Onward (2020)

shading artist

Coco (2017)

Sets Shading Lead

The Good Dinosaur (2015)

Shading TD

Brave (2012)

Sets Shading Artist

Toy Story 3 (2010)

R&D Shading TD

Avatar (2009)

Shading Artist

WALL·E (2008)

Shader Writer

The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)

R&D TD

The Water Horse (2007)

Pixar Productions

Ratatouille (2007)

Lighting And Effects Team

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)

shader td

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)

Shading / Look Development TD

Cars (2006)

Shading TD

Inside Out (2005)

Shading Artist

The Incredibles (2004)

R&D

Die Another Day (2002)

Digital Effects Artist

The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002)

R&D

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)

Look Development / Shading / Surfacing TD with experience in feature Animation and VFX. skills including Renderman shaders, Slim templates, dso development, texturing and photoshop work, and general Maya.

Specialties: Shading / Look Development /
Renderman / PRman / Slim / DSO
Maya / Mel Scripting / Plugin coding. / C++ / LUA /
Photoshop texture creation
Work History

  • Lead Shading TD

    Pixar

    July 2008 - Present

    Set Shading Lead on Onward
    Look Dev/Shading on Coco
    Set Shading Lead on The Good Dinosaur
    Shading on Inside Out
    Shading on Brave.
    Shading on Toy Story 3

  • Technical Director

    Wētā FX

    January 2007 - July 2008

    Shading R&D , look dev for
    Avatar
    the Waterhorse
    Fantastic Four 2.
    Day the earth stood still

  • Shading / Look Development TD

    Pixar

    April 2002 - January 2007

    Shading and Look development for

    Wall-e
    Cars
    The Incredibles

  • R&D

    Cinesite

    February 1999 - April 2002

    Die Another Day
    Tomb Raider
    Pluto Nash (yay)
    magical something something mystery something Leprechauns

  • Developer

    Cambridge Animation Systems

    January 1998 - February 1999

    Animo. remember that. I barely do. thankfully.

  • developer

    Pixel Power

    January 1997 - January 1998

    programming for Collage line of tv graphics products

  • Pixar

    ? - Present
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Education

  • Msc in Computer Graphics and Virtual Environments

    University of Hull

    1995 - 1996

  • BSc in Computer Science

    The University of Salford

    1991 - 1994