Bruno Pollet

Work History

• Freelance Artist

  MoonKeys

  April 2014 - Present

  Houdini procedural modeling, animation and rendering.
  Director and 3D artist on a 3D educational 7 minute film explaining the process of recycling waste to create energy.
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  FX Lead

  Umedia VFX & Finishing

  February 2020 - December 2020

  Brussels, Belgium
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  3D Supervisor

  Benuts

  December 2014 - January 2020

  Benuts asked me to supervize their 3D team. Lots of challenges, great people, I love it !
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  Houdini Lead

  Benuts

  August 2018 - December 2019
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  Senior Motion Editor

  Wētā FX

  September 2013 - April 2014

  Motion editing for "Hobbit - The Desolation of Smaug" and "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes"

  

• Freelance Artist

  MoonKeys

  December 2012 - August 2013

  Doing motion capture research and Clouds/trails VFX with Houdini
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  Motion Editor

  Wētā FX

  September 2012 - December 2012

  Motion editing on "The Hobbit" using GiantStudio's Nuance. More specifically working on "crowd" shots.

• Houdini VFX and rendering.

  MoonKeys

  March 2012 - September 2012

  Doing 3D cloud research, animation and rendering for the movie "Au nom du fils" using both Houdini and Vue 10.

• Houdini Shading development - Lighting supervisor

  MoonKeys

  September 2011 - March 2012

  I'm currently working as shader developer and lighting supervisor on a short called Snap. The short is animated with Maya then transferred to Houdini via Alembic where it's shaded and lighted. Fx are also added with houdini.
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  Motion Editing, Motion Capture TD, Motion Capture Quality Co

  Wētā FX

  January 2011 - June 2011

  

  

  

  

  
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  Technical Director

  Grid VFX

  January 2010 - January 2011

• Senior 3D Artist

  72dpi

  February 2005 - December 2009

• Senior 3D Artist

  d-side group

  2004 - December 2009

• 3D Artist

  SoftKinetic Studios

  2008 - 2009

• Layout Artist

  Secret Realm

  2007 - 2007

• Application Engineer / Consultant

  Alias Wavefront currently Autodesk

  2001 - 2002

• Application engineer

  Alias|wavefront

  1999 - 2001

• 3D Artist

  ID-TV

  1999 - 2000

• Maya Supervisor

  I-D Media AG, I-D TV

  1999 - 2000

• 3D Artist

  Neurones

  1995 - 1996

• 3D artist

  CASTERMAN

  1995 - 1996