Daisuke Maki

Work History

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  Senior Lighting Technical Director

  Wētā FX

  April 2023 - Present

  Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand · On-si

  Projects:
  Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024)
  The Marvels (2023)
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  Lighting Technical Director

  Wētā FX

  November 2011 - April 2024

  New Zealand

  @ Shots Department
  * Mainly lighting cg elements in Katana & Maya using Manuka/Renderman pipeline.
  * Writing scripts/tools for lighters to use in show(s)

  
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  Assistant Technical Director

  Wētā FX

  July 2008 - November 2011

  @ Shots & Layout Department
  * Lighting on projects Avatar & The Adventures of Tintin
  * Written scripts/tools to help artists with their workflow
  * Building layout for lighting, animation and motion editing. I have also given presentations on how to use dynamics to help create layouts, which cover rigid body, nCloth and particles. I also wrote some tools that help artists to use the techniques I presented.
  * Assisting with debugging, lighting and fx.
  
  Projects:
  The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn (2011)
  Avatar (2009)

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
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  Effects Technical Director

  Freelance

  December 2006 - June 2008

  Worked as a freelance FX artist. Mainly creating expression driven fx particle rigs and some fluid fire/smoke and explosion FX using Maya.