Benjamin Rayner

Work History

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  Digital Artist

  Self-employed

  2017 - Present
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  Production

  Luma Pictures

  October 2021 - March 2023

  Melbourne (Remote)
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  Marketing Positions

  Prusa Research

  June 2021 - August 2021

  Prague [WFH]

  Marketing Report writing Australia.

• File I/O & Asset Management

  Proxi Virtual Production

  August 2020 - November 2020

  Manage input/output of assets and data
  
  Lease with remote workers to solve any issues.
  
  Create Shogun entries and keep it up to date.
  
  Publish any assets, follow protocols conventions set by production leads.
  
  Unreal Engine Camera Creation and Rendering
  
  Motion capture assistant.
  Some duties included the attaching and removal of mocap sensors. Tech check sensors placements and setups. Run witness reference camera. File transfers.
  
  Windows & MacOS

• Digital Specialist, File I/O

  Proxi Virtual Production

  August 2020 - November 2020

  Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

• Line Marker

  Contractor

  July 2019 - June 2020

  Sydney, Australia

  Painted carparks, warehouses & cladding.
  Layout with chalk mapped out spaces for painting.
  Posts holes, sin-ages, bollards and wheel stops, placement and execution.
  White card and safety procedures.
  
  No OS just the BEST.
  
  https://www.facebook.com/Hills-Linemarking-1707694716166292/?ref=br_rs
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  Transmissions Operator

  Deluxe

  October 2018 - June 2019

  Macquarie Park

  Data I/O (in/out) and Transmissions.
  
  Ticket management responding to priority tasks in a efficient timely manner.
  
  Handle Multiple delivery methods using Aspera, web based clients, mailed in disk drives. For Disney, Netflix, Amazon, Fox
  
  Lease between project management and other departments to deliver content for checks and edits.
  
  Run tech checks & film delivery for cinema
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  I/O Operator

  Method Studios

  January 2018 - October 2018

  lane cove north

  I'm part of the team that handles the input and output of data at Iloura Sydney.
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  Traveler & Adventurer

  Self-employed

  January 2016 - December 2017

  Dawin - Perth - Adelaide - Melbourne - Sydney

  Traveled over 20,000km the east coast of Australia by my trusty 1989 Ford maverick 4x4. Starting in Darwin, I set off to Broom, traveled through the Pilbara to the magical Ningaloo.
  Made my way to Perth stayed with my grandparents and relatives.
  Experienced a blazing swan

• eLearning Production Officer

  ePathways - Department of Education and Children's Services

  October 2013 - December 2015

  As part of the production team I help develop eLearning material that has a focus on instructional Design that refers to the application of user-centred design practices to generate cohesive, predictive and desirable design base on consideration of the users’ experience.
  I create informative 3d animations taking a written script into its final visual form.
  Processes include: story-boarding, voice acting, asset creation among other things.
  I also implement google analytics into our work to track outputs.

• Production Officer

  Northern Terrirory Department of Education - ICT for Learnin

  March 2013 - October 2013

  Nightcliff Middle School, Darwin NT

  Create motion graphics for use in promotional materials for teachers who provide professional learning for across the NT in digital pedagogy with a focus on Digital Games Based Learning.

• Volunteer Mentor

  The Lab Darwin

  July 2013 - September 2013

  Darwin City Library

  Provide tuition to young people in a social and fun environment in areas such as programming digital design and gaming. We also experiment with emerging technologies such as 3d printers, xbox kinect, leap motion, and the emotive EEG system.

• Assistant Cameraman

  Spectra Video Graphics

  October 2012 - January 2013

  Australia

  Travel Australia shooting time-lapse imagery for film TBA.
  Equipped with Nikon DSLR cameras drive to remote locations in Canberra, QLD and NT camp out and shoot CSIRO telescope dish, lightning storms and eclips in 2012.
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  Technical Animator

  Dr. D Studios

  2011 - November 2011

  As a Technical Animator I'm proactive in creating solutions and solving problems.
  I work closely with the Animation Lead maintaining high-end animation pipelines solutions.
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  Technical Assistant

  Dr. D Studios

  January 2010 - February 2011

  Dr D is a new digital production studio created by Academy Award winning producers George Miller and Doug Mitchell in partnership with the Omnilab Media Group. It's a permanent Australian studio, attracting the best talent from here and around the world to craft fine, entertaining stories.
  Starting off in the modeling department I ran checks & made fixes to charter models before outputting them to the rigging department.
  In June I then moved into the rigging department setting facial deformation attributes & skinning characters. Early December I moved into the animation department.

  

• Cg artist

  Holopoint Interactive Pty Ltd

  2009 - 2010

• Animation Trainer (stop motion)

  PAW Media and Communications

  November 2009 - December 2009

  PAW media, popular for Bush Mechanics are situated in Yuendumu outback NT Australia.
  My role was to help train and create traditional Warlpiri stories using
  stop motion animation.
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  Compositor & Animator

  Rising Sun Pictures

  June 2007 - October 2008

  "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince " - Animator / Compositor
  "Speedracer" - Animator
  "Where The Wild Things Are" - Animator / Compositor
  "The Ruins" - BG Prep / Roto Artist
  "Get Smart" - 3D Generalist
  "The Seeker, Darkness Rising" - Render Wrangler

  

  

  

  

• Colourist & Illustration

  Angel Phoenix Publishing

  January 2007 - March 2007

  "The Last Realm, Dragonscarpe" Colouist and illustrations

• Comic Book Colourist

  Michal Dutkiewicz

  March 2006 - December 2006

  "Lost in Space, Voyage to the Bottom of the Soul." Colourist

• student

  Mega

  2006 - 2006