Daniel Stein

Work History

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  Pipeline Development

  Zero VFX

  August 2021 - Present

  Detroit, MI
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  Pipeline Supervisor

  3DExcite

  June 2017 - August 2021

  Royal Oak, Michigan
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  Compositing Supervisor

  3DExcite

  October 2016 - June 2017

  Royal Oak, Michigan
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  Creative Specialist

  The Foundry

  October 2015 - October 2016

  Austin, TX

  Providing remote and on-site training and technical support for the Foundry product line.
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  Stereoscopic Supervisor

  Rainmaker Entertainment

  October 2015 - November 2015

  Vancouver, Canada Area

  Workflow consulting and tool development for Ratchet and Clank.
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  Nuke/Pipeline TD

  Gener8 Media Corp

  April 2015 - October 2015

  Vancouver, Canada Area

  Provided critical support and process development throughout the pipeline.
  
  Managed a broad range of tasks from tool development to OCIO integration to pipeline automation. And of course troubleshooting. Lots of troubleshooting.
  
  Following are some of the projects I worked on at Gener8. Additional titles under NDA or pending release.
  
  Pan
  Pixels
  The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
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  Lead Compositor

  Gener8 Media Corp

  March 2013 - May 2015

  Vancouver, Canada Area

  Led teams of up to 15 artists in intense production environments. Over 2 years my responsibilities included artist training, establishing department processes and best practices, interviewing/hiring new talent, shot distribution and management, as well as putting on my artist hat here and there to handle some of the most technically demanding shots.
  
  Following are some of the projects I worked on at Gener8. Additional titles under NDA or pending release.
  
  San Andreas
  Insurgent
  Jupiter Ascending
  The Grandmaster
  Guardians of the Galaxy
  Captain America: The Winter Soldier
  Maleficent
  Godzilla
  300: Rise of an Empire (as Senior Compositor)
  Thor: The Dark World (as Senior Compositor)
  Iron Man 3 (as Senior Compositor)

• Stereo Technical Supervisor

  Solid MTL

  March 2012 - January 2013

  Montreal, Canada Area

  
  Stereo consulting, training, and compositing on Escape from Planet Earth at Rainmaker.
  
  Led a tiny team of artists in a herculean effort to extract assets for the entire film from Maya and Nuke which allowed our slightly larger team back in Montreal and Detroit to successfully complete the stereo conversion.
  
  Developed tools and processes for Nuke and Maya which increased productivity drastically and made the task achievable.
  
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  Compositor

  Mackevision

  November 2011 - March 2012

  Rochester, Michigan

  
  Worked in a Nuke/3DS Max pipeline to create high-quality animations for Chrysler.
  
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  Compositor/Lead Stereo Compositor

  Speedshape

  January 2011 - November 2011

  Bingham Farms, MI

  
  Stereo Comp Lead/Pipeline Dev - Escape From Planet Earth
  Compositor - Piranha 3DD
  Stereo Compositing Lead - Spy Kids 4: All the Time in the World - 3d conversion.
  

  

• Lighting and Compositing TD

  Spiderwood Studios

  May 2010 - February 2011

  
  Lighting, rendering, and compositing for the animated short film Flight of Magic.
  Wrote python scripts to implement linear workflow into existing pipeline. Provided high-quality lighting solutions for 3d sets and shots. Modeled props, layed out UVs, and optimized bad geometry. Assisted studio in switching to mental ray, which involved extensive troubleshooting.
  

• Lighting Artist

  Critical Mass Interactive

  July 2010 - August 2010

  
  Used Beast Lighting in Unreal Editor to provide high-quality world and character lighting for multiplayer levels for Disney’s TRON:Evolution. Implemented feedback from art directors to achieve and maintain the look and feel of TRON. Optimized lightmaps.