Dan Lazarow
Digital Artist, specialty in 3D lighting and rendering.
Senior Lighting Artist / Senior lookdev artist / 25 yrs
Los Angeles
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I am also a Graphic Artist with experience digitally illustrating and color separating designs for screen printing using Adobe Photoshop. I also use traditional fine art media to create artwork including murals, paintings, and drawings.
Work History
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Senior Lighter
Method Studios
January 2017 - March 2017
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VFX Lighting Artist
Method Studios
October 2015 - April 2016I returned to Method for a contract working as a lighting artist on Marvel Studios' "Captain America: Civil War". This project marked the largest number of individual shots in a feature film that I contributed work on. Software used: Maya, Vray and Nuke
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lighting artist
Treyarch
July 2015 - September 2015Los Angeles, California, USLighting Artist for "Call of Duty: Black Ops III" July -Sept 2015
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VFX Lighting Artist
Method Studios
November 2014 - June 2015I was a lighting artist for Marvel Films' "Ant-Man" using Maya, VRay, and Nuke.
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Rhythm & Hues Studios
July 2003 - May 2013• Collaborated with software, pipeline, and lighting supervisory teams to develop and support lighting technology and workflows throughout the studio making the process faster, easier, more flexible and more intuitive for our artists which resulted in better efficiency and less time spent doing the work
• Managed and educated teams with an average size of ten artists in shot production
• Designed the overall lighting for sequences and lit my own shots
• Created material definitions for the look of hard surface assets
• Interpreted aesthetic notes from supervisors and helped artists to apply the appropriate technical expertise to final their shots
• Communicated with all departments on the best practices and protocols needed to effectively pass data and assets up and downstream through to final rendering.
• Effectively managed my own time and that of the artists on my team to reduce overtime needs and gain rendering efficiencies
• Documented technical processes both for educational and historical purposes resulting in less time spent on development for future productions
• Worked with and led international teams of artists and technicians through video conferencing, email and chat applications
• Requested the necessary technological and aesthetic changes to our digital assets from our look development and texturing teams in order to achieve the desired look in shots
• Enhanced and revised a portion our proprietary system for rendering crowds to make them easier and more intuitive, resulting in a more efficient workflow which took less time for artists to understand and implement
Projects
“Seventh Son”, “300: Rise of an Empire”, “Snow White and the Huntsman", all three "Alvin and the Chipmunks" films, "Hop", "Knight and Day", "The Wolfman", "Fast and Furious", "The Incredible Hulk", "Evan Almighty", "Night at the Museum", both "Garfield" films, "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe", "Serenity", and "Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed".
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Rhythm & Hues Studios
November 2007 - May 2008I worked on "The Incredible Hulk" as the lighting pipeline lead, responsible for making sure the lighting leads and TDs had the tools they needed to get the production completed efficiently. I worked with the lighting/lookdev supervisor and the lighting leads to implement new technology and workflows, and educated the lighting TDs on the use of those tools.
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Education
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BFA in Computer AnimationBFA, Computer Animation
Ringling College of Art and Design
1995 - 1999 -
Green High School
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