Carlos Cidrais

Carlos Cidrais

CG Supervisor

Supervisor CG Supervisor / 19 yrs

Porto, Portugal

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CG Supervisor

Back in Action (2024)

Nyad (2023)

CG Supervisor

The Flash (2023)

CG Supervisor

Moonfall (2022)

Senior Lighting Artist

The Foundation (2021)

Visual Effects Supervisor

Jolt (2021)

Senior Lighting Artist

Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021)

Lighting Lead

Away (2020)

Lighting Lead

Togo (2019)

Lighting Senior Artist

Godzilla: King of Monsters (2019)

Lighting Lead

The King (2019)

Lighting Lead

Sacred Lies (2018)

lead lighting TD

Deadpool 2 (2018)

Lighting Sr. Artist

Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)

Lighting Lead

The fate of the furious (2017)

lighting artist

Beauty and the Beast (2017)

CG Supervisor

Collide (2017)

Lead Lighting Artist

X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)

CG Supervisor

The Other Side of the Door (2016)

Lighting/ Generalist Artist

Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

Senior Lighting Artist at Cinesite

Gods of Egypt (2015)

Lighting/ Generalist Artist

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (2015)

Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015)

Lighting/ Generalist Artist

I, Frankenstein (2014)

Lighting TD

Hercules (2014)

Layout Artist

The Great Gatsby (2013)

Fast & Furious 6 (2013)

Rush (2013)

Lighting/Generalist Technical Director

Total Recall (2012)

Lighting/Generalist Technical Director

John Carter (2012)

Lighting Technical Director

Clash of the Titans (2010)

I'm a CG Supervisor at Scanline VFX, who's passionate about creating Visual Effects.
Through the years I've created computer graphics for film, tv series, commercials, web video, video for large scale live shows and print media.
I've helped develop the Lighting Mentorship program at Double Negative London.
I have generalist knowledge of all aspects of 3D and Compositing and expert knowledge of Lighting.
Work History
  • CG Supervisor

    ScanlineVFX

    May 2021 - February 2024
  • CG Supervisor

    Nu Boyana FX

    November 2020 - April 2021
  • Lead Lighting TD

    Double Negative

    October 2017 - October 2020
    Vancouver, British Columbia, Canadá
  • 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

  • Senior Lighting Artist

    Cinesite

    July 2015 - September 2015
    London, United Kingdom

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

  • Senior Lighting Artist

    Cinesite

    July 2015 - August 2015
  • 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.

  • 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'

  • 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'

  • 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

  • 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.

  • Lighting Technical Director

    Framestore

    September 2009 - February 2010

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

  • 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.

  • VJ/ Designer

    Freelance

    1999 - 2004

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

Education
  • CG Society

    2012 - ?
  • Gnomon School of Visual Effects

    2008 - ?
  • Master of Business Administration - MBA in Business Administration and

    Haroun Education Ventures MBA Degree Program

    2019 - 2020
  • fxPhd

    2010 - 2012
  • Escape Studios

    2009 - 2009
  • Escape Studios

    2009 - 2009
  • Escape Studios

    2008 - 2008
  • Universidade Católica Portuguesa

    2005 - 2007
  • Universidade Católica Portuguesa

    1999 - 2005