Aurelien Hulot

Work History

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  Lighting Artist

  Rodeo FX

  October 2021 - Present

  Montréal, Canada
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  Senior LRC Lookdev Lead artist

  Axis Animation

  June 2017 - August 2021

  Glasgow, United Kingdom

  (LRC: Lighting Rendering Compositing)
  Developing the visual of the show in 3D:
  - Work in progress Trailer for E3 2020
  - New World - Game awards Trailer 2019 (Amazon Games Studio)
  Lighting & compositing of 4 master shots.
  - Magic the Gathering: Throne of Eldraine (Wizards of the Coast)
  Lighting & compositing of 7 shots, including the kitchen master shot.
  - Gears 5: Escape - E3 2019 Trailer (Microsoft)
  Lighting & compositing of 8 shots, including 1 master shot.
  - Magic the Gathering: War of the Spark (Wizards of the Coast)
  Lighting & compositing of 8 shots, including 2 master shots.
  - The walking Dead: saints and sinners - Trailer (Skybound Entertainment)
  Lighting & compositing of 4 shots, including 1 master shot.
  - Summoners War: Friends & Rivals (Skybound Entertainment)
  Lighting & compositing of 23 shots, including 1 master shot.
  - Heroes of the Storm: Heir of Raven Court (Blizzard)
  Lighting & compositing of 8 shots.
  - Outriders - E3 2019 Trailer (Square Enix)
  Lighting and compositing, worked on over 10 shots including master shots for 4 sequences.
  - Destiny 2: Forsaken - Prison Fall (Bungie)
  Lighting & compositing of 12 shots, including 2 master shots.
  - The Elder Scrolls Online: Summerset (Bethesda)
  Lighting & compositing of two master shots.
  - Destiny 2: Warmind (Bungie)
  Lighting & compositing of 5 shots, including 1 master shot.
  - Destiny 2 - The curse of Osiris (Bungie)
  Lighting & compositing of over 10 shots, including 3 master shots.
  
  My task is to create the lighting and compositing master shots, setting up the Houdini scenes and workflow for shot production, and creating tools. Houdini assets and render time optimisation.
  - Houdini (Mantra/Arnold/Hscript).
  - Nuke and Fusion
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  Lead lighting & compositing artist

  Axis Animation

  January 2017 - July 2017

  Glasgow, United Kingdom

  Netflix/channel4 « Kiss Me First »
  Associate CG supervisor and Lead LRC (lighting/rendering/compositing). I worked on master and key shots on four sequences, I also developed a new lighting pipeline in Houdini for this project to be able to deliver a large amount of CG shots in a short amount of time.
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  Lead Assets, Lighting and Compositing

  Axis Animation

  August 2016 - December 2016

  Glasgow, Royaume-Uni

  Massive scale Hollywood franchise movie theme park ride (Under NDA)
  Lead Assets managing a team of over ten artists, also was Lead lighting and compositing artist on the project. This was one of my most challenging project in term of responsibilities, scale and optimisation, to deliver 7k 60fps for a continuous shot of 4 minutes in realistic full CG.
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  Lighting & compositing artist

  Axis Animation

  January 2016 - July 2016

  Glasgow, Royaume-Uni

  Animation feature film project.
  Lighting (Houdini /mantra), compositing (Fusion).
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  Environment Modeling and Shading artist

  Axis Animation

  August 2015 - July 2016

  Glasgow, United Kingdom

  Animation feature film project
  Modeling (Maya), Texturing (Photoshop), Shading (Houdini-Mantra).
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  CG generalist artist

  Fix Studio VFX

  December 2013 - July 2015

  Paris, clichy

  June 2015 – July. 2015
  Lierac (commercial) layout, animation, modeling, texturing, shading, lighting. Maya-Maxwell render
  
  Jan. 2015 – March 2015
  Domyos (commercial) Everything except compositing. Maya-Maxwell render
  (the entire show)
  
  Aug. 2014 – Sept. 2014
  Samsung alpha (commercial) layout/anime/modeling/shading/lighting. Maya-Maxwell render
  (the four phone shots)
  
  Dec. 2013 - Aug. 2014 (commercials)
  Modeling/texturing on Maysu. Modeling on Mazda. Lighting Maya-Vray on Snuggle. Lighting Maya-Vray on Liquan Beer. Shading/lighting Maya-Maxwell render on Vichy. Modeling/shading/lighting Maya-Vray on Garnier. Modeling/Texturing on Cartier Watchmaker.
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  VFX generalist

  Eclair Group

  April 2015 - May 2015

  Vanves, France

  Modeling/Texture/Shading/Animation/Setup/Lighting. (VFX)
  Opening sequence of the movie Les profs 2" Maya-Vray
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  CG generalist artist

  Prodigious Film (Publicis)

  March 2015 - April 2015

  Clichy, France

  March 2015- april 2015
  Jaguar (commercial) - Modeling/Texture/Lighting. Maya-Vray
  Oasis Fruit and Furious (commercial) - Modeling/Texture/Lighting. Maya-Vray
  
  Dec. 2014
  Nescafé (commercial) - Modeling/Texture/Shading. Maya-Vray
  Renault (commercial) - Texture/Shading/Lighting. Maya-Vray
  
  August 2014
  Special Tea (commercial) - Modeling/Texturing. Maya
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  Environment modeling artist

  Illumination Mac Guff

  September 2012 - February 2013

  Paris, France

  Minions, animation feature film. Maya

  

  

  

  
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  Environment modeling artist

  Illumination Mac Guff

  January 2012 - June 2012

  Paris, France

  Despicable Me 2, animation feature film. Maya
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  Environment modeling artist

  Illumination Mac Guff

  May 2011 - June 2011

  Paris, France

  Dr. Seuss' The Lorax, animation feature film. Maya
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  Surfacing artist

  Duboi

  September 2010 - April 2011

  Issy-les-Moulineaux, Île-de-France, France

  Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart, animation feature film. Maya/RenderMan.
  Shading on characters and environments Duran, the CG studio making the film bankrupt in the middle of production, few years later the movie was resumed by another studio in Belgium and the shading redone in a different render engine.
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  Environment CG artist

  Def2shoot

  June 2010 - September 2010

  Montrouge, France

  Soulman - 4 min trailer
  Modeling/Texturing/Shading. Maya-Mental Ray
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  Environment modeling artist

  Mac Guff

  May 2008 - January 2010

  Paris, France

  Despicable Me, animation feature film. Maya
  On the pre-production (picture test) and on production of the film