Brent Le Blanc

Work History

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  3D Materials Artist

  Amazon

  September 2022 - Present
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  Sr. Set Shading Technical Director

  Pixar

  July 2021 - January 2022

  Emeryville, California, United States
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  Surfacer

  DreamWorks Animation

  March 2019 - July 2021

  Glendale, CA

  Texturing and Shading Environments
  
  - The Bad Guys (2021)
  - Croods 2 (2020)
  
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  Materials Technical Director

  Blue Sky Studios

  June 2014 - February 2019

  Texturing and Shading Characters and Environments.
  
  - Nimona (2020)
  - Spies in Disguise (2019)
  - Ferdinand (2017)
  - Ice Age: Collision Course (2016)
  - The Peanuts Movie (2015)
  
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  Course Instructor

  Gnomon School of Visual Effects, Games + Animation

  January 2021 - April 2021

  Los Angeles, California, United States

  10 weeks course teaching Texture 2 Class
  - Substance Painter
  - Substance Designer
  - Redshift
  - Arnold
  - Maya
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  Look Development Instructor

  The Gnomon Workshop

  October 2020 - January 2021

  Los Angeles, California, United States

  Created 2.5 hour Workshop on "Getting Started with Look Development in Houdini"
  
  
  Course covers Look Dev kit in Houdini, UV's in Maya, Substance Designer, Substance Painter, Scene Assembly in Houdini and Lighting and Rendering with Redshift.

• Founder

  Facet Forge LLC

  January 2022 - Present

• Look Development Lead / Pipeline Assistant

  MEISTER

  December 2019 - April 2022

  Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area

  Lead Look Development Artist on "Kyle Kinane Trampoline in A Ditch" Animation and Multiple AR Projects made for Messenger at Facebook.
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  Adjunct Professor

  University of Connecticut-Stamford

  January 2018 - May 2018

  Stamford, CT

  Adjunct Professor at UCONN Teaching Digital Lighting and Texturing - Spring Semester 2018
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  Jr. Materials Technical Director

  Blue Sky Studios

  November 2012 - June 2014

  Texturing and Shading Characters and Environments.
  
  - Rio 2 (2014)
  - Epic (2013)
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  Look Development

  Digital Domain

  December 2011 - September 2012

  Tradition, FL

  Texturing in Mari and Photoshop. Look Developing surfaces using Katana and Maya. On completion of look development would export look files to Lighting for finalizing.
  
  - The Legend of Tembo
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  Digital Artist

  Digital Domain

  February 2011 - December 2011

  Port St. Lucie, FL

  Stereoscopic Layout, Stereoscopic Animation, Rotoscoping and QC
  
  - Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
  - Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)
  - The Smurfs (2011)
  - Rock of Ages (2012)

• Co-founder/Lead Design

  48 Studios

  May 2010 - January 2011

  Naples, Florida Area

  Designed marketing materials and corporate identities. Attended trade shows and did on-location filming and photography for events and promotions. Used 3D packages for modeling, texturing, animation and rendering for marketing material.