Brent Le Blanc

Specializing in Environment Texturing and Shading for Film and Animation. I've started to heavily use Real-time workflows to create narrative series and film.

Heavy emphasis on procedural workflows using Substance Painter, Designer and Houdini.

Some Modeling and Lighting experience.

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  Senior Design Technologist

  Amazon

  Sep 2024 - Present

  1 yr 4 mos

  California

  Designing tools and experiences for next generation content creation applications.

• Founder

  Facet Forge LLC

  Jan 2022 - Present

  4 yrs

  Remote
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  3D Design Technologist II

  Amazon

  Dec 2023 - Sep 2024

  9 mos

  California

  Designing tools and experiences for next generation content creation applications.

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  3D Materials Artist

  Amazon

  Sep 2022 - Dec 2023

  1 yr 3 mos

  Remote
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  Look Development Lead / Pipeline Assistant

  MEISTER

  Dec 2019 - Sep 2023

  3 yrs 9 mos

  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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  Director of Photography

  Big-Giant

  Aug 2022 - Aug 2022

  1 mo

  Los Angeles, California

  I had the honor to be Director of Photography and Unreal Build artist on Snoop Dogg and Eminem's latest VMA 2022 musical performance video. Made start to finish in 16 days!

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  Unreal Fellowship : Storytelling - Spring 2022

  Epic Games

  May 2022 - Jul 2022

  2 mos

  Los Angeles, California

  I had the privilege of taking part in the Unreal Fellowship : Storytelling - Spring 2022 program. It was honestly a life changing event for me.
  
  I found a deep love of storytelling and passion for creating art with Unreal Engine. My sister, Valerie Rieker and I created this episode and decided to continue this as a miniseries after falling in love with the story and the characters.
  
  Please enjoy the first installment of our series titled "Reish".

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  Sr. Set Shading Technical Director

  Pixar

  Jul 2021 - Jan 2022

  6 mos

  Emeryville, California

  - Cars on the Road (2022)
  
  Sets and BG Character Texturing and Shading for Cars on the Road. Substance Painter, Designer, Houdini and proprietary Pixar shading tools.

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  Surfacer

  DreamWorks Animation

  Mar 2019 - Jul 2021

  2 yrs 4 mos

  Glendale, California

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

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  Course Instructor

  Gnomon School of Visual Effects, Games + Animation

  Jan 2021 - Apr 2021

  3 mos

  Los Angeles, California

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

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  Look Development Instructor

  The Gnomon Workshop

  Oct 2020 - Jan 2021

  3 mos

  Los Angeles, California

  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.

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  Materials Technical Director

  Blue Sky Studios

  Jun 2014 - Feb 2019

  4 yrs 8 mos

  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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  Adjunct Professor

  University of Connecticut-Stamford

  Jan 2018 - May 2018

  4 mos

  United States

  Adjunct Professor at UCONN Teaching Digital Lighting and Texturing - Spring Semester 2018

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  Jr. Materials Technical Director

  Blue Sky Studios

  Nov 2012 - Jun 2014

  1 yr 7 mos

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

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  Look Development

  Digital Domain

  Dec 2011 - Sep 2012

  9 mos

  Port St. Lucie, Florida

  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

  Feb 2011 - Dec 2011

  10 mos

  Port St. Lucie, Florida

  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 - Jan 2011

  8 mos

  Naples, Florida

  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.

• Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Computer Animation

  Digital Media Arts College

  2007 - 2010

• Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) in Computer Animation

  Shawnee State University

  2004 - 2007