Campbell McGrouther

Campbell McGrouther

Senior Lighting Artist / 18 yrs

Los Angeles, CA

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Work History
  • Product Designer

    DreamWorks Animation

    March 2015 - Present
  • Lighting Artist

    DreamWorks Animation

    June 2012 - January 2015

    Working on these great features:

    - How to Train you Dragon 2 (Lighting Artist - credited)
    - Turbo (Lighting Artist - credited)

  • Lighting TD

    Rising Sun Pictures

    May 2008 - May 2012

    Starting out on Australia as a Lighting TD, I have now worked on several high profile movies. The most recent being Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1.

    - Australia (Lighting TD - credited).
    - Xmen Origins: Wolverine (Lighting TD - credited).
    - Terminator Salvation (Lighting TD - credited).
    - Terminator Salvation DVD extra sequences.
    - Micheal Jackson's 'This is it' (Lighting TD).
    - HP 'Envy' TVC (Lighting TD).
    - The Dragon Pearl (Lighting TD, Look Development - credited).
    - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 1 (Lighting TD - credited).
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  • Lighting TD

    Animal Logic

    November 2007 - May 2008

    Back to Animal, this time in the TVC department.

    - Carlton Draught 'Skytroop show' TVC.
    - Halo vacuum cleaner TVC.
    - Comcast 'Rabbit' TVC

  • Lighting TD

    firehorse

    September 2006 - January 2007

    Australia Mitsubishi Revolution Campaign:
    - Three full CG car commercials -- Texturing, lighting and rendering

    NSW Government Elections:
    - Five commercials with CG Character interaction - Lighting and compositing.

  • Lighting TD

    Fuel VFX

    2007 - 2007

    My primary role was as a lighting TD, though I also did a lot of texturing and look development (Mental Ray).

    -Three Nisssan TVCs.
    -Two Xbox 'play' TVCs.
    -Two Optus 'Ostrich' TVCs.
    -Panasonic 'Marlon' TVC.
    -Samsung i780 TVC.

  • Lighting TD

    Animal Logic

    August 2006 - September 2006

    Worked as a Shot Lighter on:

    - Happy Feet (Lighting TD - credited)

  • Generalist

    One Glass Eye ltd

    2001 - 2006

    Worked on many 3d and 2d Television Commercials, Television Shows and Documentaries for local and national companies. Often in projects I was involved from concept to completion, and then responsible for delivery to network or broadcaster. Tasks often included: Previs, Modeling, Texturing, Animation, Lighting, Rendering, Compositing and Motion Graphics.

    I worked closely with the directors and helped design the motion graphics for many title sequences of New Zealand television shows, as well as a few international Discovery Planet documentaries.

Education
  • Christchurch Polytechnic

    1998 - 2000