Daniel Flood

Work History

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  Technical Lead

  UTS Animal Logic Academy

  January 2017 - Present
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  Pipeline TD - Various departments

  Iloura

  January 2016 - Present

  Development work for various departments
  
  Maya:
  -Maya shot building, interaction with pipeline / asset management system
  -Tools for asset creation and publishing
  -Custom user tools using PyQt, Maya plugins and OpenMaya API callbacks
  -Providing technical assistance to artists during production
  -Support and refactoring of existing code
  
  Clarisse:
  -Renderfarm submission tools
  
  Unit Testing:
  -Implementing test runners for various DCC applications
  
  Technologies used:
  -clarisse ix
  -python cmds, OpenMaya 1.0 and 2.0, mel, python cmds, pymel
  -PyQt / PySide
  -PyMongo, Shotgun
  -Rez, CMake, Nose, Git, Phabricator, cProfile
  
  
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  Iloura

  January 2016 - Present

  Development work for various departments
  
  Maya:
  -Maya shot building, interaction with pipeline / asset management system
  -Tools for asset creation and publishing
  -Custom user tools using PyQt, Maya plugins and OpenMaya API callbacks
  -Providing technical assistance to artists during production
  -Support and refactoring of existing code
  
  Clarisse:
  -Renderfarm submission tools
  
  Unit Testing:
  -Implementing test runners for various DCC applications
  
  Technologies used:
  -clarisse ix
  -python cmds, OpenMaya 1.0 and 2.0, mel, python cmds, pymel
  -PyQt / PySide
  -PyMongo, Shotgun
  -Rez, CMake, Nose, Git, Phabricator, cProfile
  
  
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  Iloura

  April 2015 - January 2016

  -Lighting and LookDev pipeline integration (Katana, Mongo)
  -Development of lighting department tools (Katana, Prman-RIS, PyQt)
  -LookDev department publishing tools (Katana)
  -Shot debugging, optimisation, technical support
  -developement tools: linux, git, rez (cmake), gitlab, phabricator
  

  

  

  

  
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  Animal Logic

  September 2014 - March 2015

  -Python: standalone tools and plugins for third party software
  -PyQt
  -Maya API
  -using maths libraries such as numpy, ilmbase
  -test driven development using nose2, unittest
  -development tools: linux, git, rez (cmake), github,

• Short Film

  May 2013 - November 2013

  Realising a long standing personal ambition, I made a short film, Salvage:
  
  www.salvagepic.com
  imdb.com/title/tt3774152/
  
  This covered the following areas:
  -Direction
  -Cinematography
  -Sound recording
  -Editing
  -Matte painting
  -3D pipeline (tracking, modelling, surfacing, lighting)
  -Compositing
  -Props
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  Animal Logic

  December 2011 - January 2013

  Work on The Great Gatsby:
  
  • Surfacing Artist: painting textures, shader lookdev in Maya
  • Lighting Artist: delivering lit and rendered shots using Maya, Prman
  • Lighting and Surfacing TD: tools for Maya, Mari, Nuke, using Python, MEL, PyQt
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  Dr. D Studios

  August 2011 - October 2011

  Work on Happy Feet 2:
  
  • Supporting artist tools for Houdini, automation of batch processes (Python)
  • Debugging Houdini scenes and renders (3Delight)
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  Surfacing

  Dr. D Studios

  February 2011 - August 2011

  Work on Happy Feet 2:
  
  • Surfacing Artist: painting textures, working with 3Delight shader networks in Houdini
  • Surfacing TD: artist tools for Houdini and Mari in Python
  • Lighting TD: supporting artist tools for Houdini (Python), debugging scenes and renders (3Delight)
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  Lighting Artist

  Animal Logic

  November 2009 - August 2010

  Lighting artist work on Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole:
  
  • Lighting artist: delivering lit and rendered shots using Maya, Prman
  • REYES, point cloud and shadow map workflow
  • Compositing shots in Nuke, writing Nuke gizmos