chris cook

Work History

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  Modeller - Marvel's Guardians Of The Galaxy

  Framestore

  August 2013 - Present

  After returning from the Art Department I am now a modeler on Concept Guardians Of The Galaxy. I work with two other Artists on one of our largest ever CG Environments to produce render level hero assets.
  
  This film has presented some very interesting challenges. As usual the deadlines are tight, but that is coupled with having so few artists creating assets for one of the largest CG interior environments I have ever seen. As a result we have had to be very creative with our models, ensuring we can get as much varied use from them as possible to ensure t
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  Concept Modeler (Guardians Of the Galaxy)

  Framestore

  July 2013 - August 2013

  London

  Following my successful tour in the Art Department on Gravity I returned for 2 months to work as a concept modeler for Marvel's Guardians Of The Galaxy.
  
  My role this time around was to produce, at speed, concept models that would later define styles for one of our exceptionally large interior environments. This included everything from layout design of whole 'areas', to the look and style of individual buildings. Once my designs were signed off they were used by both Layout TD's as a layout style guide, and by the modelling department to begin producing
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  Modeler (various Films)

  Framestore

  May 2013 - July 2013

  London

  Workigng as a modeller in the film department I am responsible for creating render level assets for use in our clients films, these are both hard surface and organic models including digi-doubles, vehicles and digital set extensions.
  
  Titles Include:
  
  Robocop - post production
  Jupiter Rising - post production
  Winters Tale - post production
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  Modeller (Gravity)

  Framestore

  October 2010 - August 2012

  London

  Working as a modeller at Framestore my role was to create hyer real assets and props for use in Alfonso Caurons Gravity. My primary software in this role is Maya but I also use Mudbox and I dabble a small amount in Nuke.
  
  Having returned from my 6 month tour at Warner brothers I join the team taking my 700+ low poly models, and we are creating high-poly photo real versions and placing them in the hight poly sets. The film I am currently working on is being shot mostly against green screen and we are under a lot of pressure to make 90% of the film in phot
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  Lead Layout (Gravity)

  Framestore

  June 2010 - October 2010

  London

  During this role I was contracted out by Framestore to Warner Brothers to work closely with the art department, primarily the set dressing team working on one of our clients films during the pre production phase.
  
  This role originally was supposed to be simply creating 2d card projections of a few props but quickly grew to creating a lot of low resolution 3D models to help the director visualise each objects impact on its environment. As a result of this role growing so large so quick I was put in charge of 2 other Framestore staff contracted to Warner B