Carlos Cidrais

Work History

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  CG Supervisor

  ScanlineVFX

  May 2021 - February 2024

  
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  CG Supervisor

  Nu Boyana FX

  November 2020 - April 2021
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  Lead Lighting TD

  Double Negative

  October 2017 - October 2020

  Vancouver, British Columbia, Canadá

  

  
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  Lead Lighting Artist

  Digital Domain

  October 2015 - October 2017

  Vancouver, Canada Area

  ''Spiderman: Homecoming'- Lighting Artist
  'Fast 8' - Lead Lighting Artist
  'Beauty and the Beast' - Lighting Artist
  'X-Men: Apocalypse' - Lead Lighting Artist
  
  Job responsibilities:
  
  .Creating Lighting Templates, Light Rigs, troubleshooting and render optimization.
  .Managing a team of Lighting artists - assigning tasks, working with production to create a realistic schedule, ensuring on-time deliveries, overseeing the recruitment of the Lighting Team.
  .Working with show supervisors on defining and implementing the aesthetic and technical approach to shows.
  .Working with Pipeline Supervisors and TD's to identify and direct the design and
  creation of software tools ( both show-specific and facility tools ).
  .Work on shots as and when necessary.
  .Continually re-evaluate and improve procedures.
  .Attend dailies and lighting rounds and give creative feedback on shot progress.
  .Creating training and documentation for the Lighting department.
  .Representing Digital Domain at career fairs and media outlets

  
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  Senior Lighting Artist

  Cinesite

  July 2015 - September 2015

  London, United Kingdom

  .Senior Lighting Artist on 'Gods of Egypt'
  .Lookdev on Environment assets.
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  Senior Lighting Artist

  Cinesite

  July 2015 - August 2015
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  CG Supervisor

  Automatik VFX

  September 2014 - June 2015

  London, United Kingdom

  .CG Supervision on 'Autobahn'
  .CG Supervision on 'Other Side of the Door'
  .CG Supervision on 'Revolt'
  .Lighting/Lookdev/Layout/Car animation on 'Autobahn'.
  .Lighting/Lookdev/Layout on 'Outside the Wire' promo.
  .Lighting on 'Revolt' promo.
  .Lighting on 'Other Side of the Door' temp shots.
  .Managing a team of artists - assigning tasks, working with production to create a realistic schedule, ensuring on-time deliveries, overseeing recruitment, managing work done off-site.
  .Working with the VFX supervisor on defining and implementing the aesthetic and technical approach to shows.
  .Working with pipeline and TD's to identify and direct the design and
  creation of software tools ( both show-specific and facility tools ).
  .Work on shots as and when necessary.
  .Continually re-evaluate and improve procedures.
  .Attend dailies and give creative feedback on shot progress.
  .Other tasks as required.

  
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  Senior Lighting / Look Dev Artist

  Prime Focus World

  February 2014 - September 2014

  London

  .Lighting/Look Dev on 'Kingsman: the Secret Service'
  .Lighting/Look Dev on 'Hercules'

  

  
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  Senior Lighting / Look Dev Artist

  Prime Focus World

  February 2014 - August 2014

  London, United Kingdom

  .Lighting/Look Dev on 'Kingsman: the Secret Service'
  .Lighting/Look Dev on 'Hercules'
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  Lighting/ Generalist Artist

  Iloura

  January 2013 - January 2014

  . Lighting, Modeling, Texturing, Look Dev on Mad Max: Fury Road
  . HDRI editing and cleanup/ Post Viz lighting on Spongebob SquarePants 2
  . Modeling, Texturing, Layout and Lighting on I, Frankenstein.
  . Layout on Great Gatsby

  

  

  

  
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  Lighting/Generalist Technical Director

  Double Negative

  November 2010 - January 2013

  . Fast and Furious 6 - Lighting TD
  . Rush - Lighting TD
  . Total Recall - TD ( Layout and Lighting )
  . John Carter - Lighting TD
  . Helped develop and teach the Lighting Mentorship program.

  

  

  

• Owner

  Output Films Ltd.

  June 2010 - November 2011

  This is the limited company I owned. Through this company, I worked for MPC Commercials, Framestore and Zoo VFX, among others.
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  Lighting Technical Director

  Framestore

  September 2009 - February 2010

  Lighting TD on the remake of "Clash of the titans".

  
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  Lighting TD/Generalist

  Self-employed

  2008 - September 2009

  //Worked at MPC Commercials, Smoke and Mirrors, Golden Square Post Production,Th1ng, Escape Studios and Therapy Films, among others.
  
  //Recent projects include
  
  -Mastercard "Perfect Harmony"
  -FA Cup titles
  -Ashes cricket series titles
  -Airwick "Apes in the morning mist" "Mrs Ape and the confused bee" "Romantic apes" and "Mrs. Ape enjoys the summer"
  -AC Carrier "Dust" and "Changing Rooms"
  -Land Rover commercial
  -Philips "Sensotouch" pre-viz

• 3D Artist / Researcher

  Research Center for Science and Technology of the

  2005 - 2007

  Researcher at Research Center for Science and Technology in Art (CITAR).
  Collaborated on a number of projects, as 3D artist.
  Designed and wrote an unpublished video game.
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  VJ/ Designer

  Freelance

  1999 - 2004

  Created video for live music shows, DJ performances, TV show titles, video art for installation, website graphics, posters/flyers.