David Breaux

Work History

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  Senior Animator

  ILM Immersive

  September 2022 - Present

  San Francisco, California, US
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  Senior Animator

  Digital Domain

  March 2022 - September 2022
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  3D Animator

  Luma Pictures

  October 2021 - March 2022

  Santa Monica, California, United States
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  Lead Animator

  Evil Eye Pictures

  August 2020 - September 2021
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  Lead Animator

  Rhythm & Hues Studios

  August 2003 - November 2006

  Animator on several Projects including Feature Films such As Garfield, Elektra, Narnia, Garfield 2, and Night at the Museum, to commercials for Cox Cable and Lead Animator on experimental short film development using game engine technology.

  

  

  

  

  

  
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  Sr Animator

  Digital Domain

  October 2019 - November 2019

  Los Angeles, CA

  Senior Character Animator
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  Sr Animator / Advanced Previs

  MPC

  July 2014 - October 2014

  Los Angeles, CA

  Assigned to help develop Kaa Snake rig as well as develop the performance for her sequence.
  As a result my work went into far more animation detail then would be normal to help drive the final animation for the film.
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  Previs Artist

  Double Negative

  January 2020 - May 2020

  Burbank, California, United States

  
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  Animation Supervisor

  Spaces VR

  February 2019 - October 2019

  Burbank, California, United States

  Character and Creature Animation Rig Development and Department Management
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  Animation Supervisor

  Pure Imagination

  June 2018 - February 2019

  Van Nuys, CA

  Character and Creature Animation Rig Development and Department Management

• Sr Animator

  The Mill - LA

  June 2017 - September 2017

  Los Angeles, CA
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  Sr Animator

  Encore VFX

  November 2015 - May 2018

  Burbank, CA

  Character / Creature Animation & Matchmoving

  

• Lead Animator

  SpinPro

  December 2006 - August 2007

  One of 3 Animation leads with a small team animating the Morwen alien creature throughout the film.
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  Online Producer (Animation)

  Gnomon School of Visual Effects

  January 2013 - September 2013

  Greater Los Angeles Area

  
  Development of online animation curriculum and organization of online Instructors.
  
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  Sr. Animator

  Pixomondo

  August 2011 - June 2012

  Terranova T.V. - Creature Animator Dinosaurs
  Hunger Games - Creature Animator Tracker Jacker Sequence
  Olympus Has Fallen - Previz
  300: rise of an Empire - Previz
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  Sr. Animator

  Pixomondo

  September 2012 - December 2012

  DieHard 5 - Helicopter and Digital Double animation for end action sequence.

• Traditional Sculptor

  Studio 3 Inc.

  January 1996 - April 1996

  Traditional sculptor for the Harrah's Casino projects, Santa's throne and assorted Christmas decorations for malls.

• Traditional Sculptor

  Kern Sculpture

  June 1996 - September 1996

  Traditional Sculptor and painter for Casino Projects for the MGM Grand and Luxor Casinos

• Production Artist

  Reel Works Studios

  December 1998 - February 1999

  Production artis on several animated commercials for clients, such as Hershey's, and Publixs Grocery Stores.
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  Lead Artist

  Sunstorm Interactive

  April 1998 - March 1999

  Staff artist creating Models, textures, and some game design.
  Worked my way up to lead artist by end of time at studio.

• Animator/Modeler/Texture Artist

  Kinesoft Entertainment

  April 2000 - February 2001

  Primarily a character Animator, but often helped out creating character models and texturing of models.

• Animator

  Tremor Entertainment

  April 2000 - October 2002

  Character Animation and Rigging
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  Animator

  Digital Domain

  March 2003 - May 2003

  Character animator for a series of Commercials for EA Games and Ford
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  Animation Instructor

  Animation Mentor

  July 2006 - September 2008

  Instructor and Mentor providing students with professional level instruction and critiques to prepare them for a future in the entertainment industry.
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  Lead Animator

  SPIN VFX

  January 2007 - August 2007

  Toronto, Canada

  One of 3 Animation leads with a small team animating the Morwen alien creature throughout the film.

  
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  Animator

  Digital Domain

  August 2007 - April 2008

  Speed Racer Animator and Pre-viz Animation

  

• Busy Scissors

  Far From Earth

  November 2008 - December 2008

  Modeled and textured environment and prop assets for Interactive game.

• Animation Supervisor

  Blockade Entertainment

  March 2008 - November 2008

  My role is best described as the directors right hand man.
  I oversaw the animation and motion capture team, and worked with the director on technical and scheduling issues as they impacted the small production team. I was also instrumental in pushing for tool development and company wide working methods to help a small 6 person creative team handle larger projects.
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  Animation Artist

  Rhythm & Hues Studios

  December 2008 - October 2009

  Alvin and the Chipmunks 2: Chipmunks and Chipettes
  Land of the Lost: T-Rex

  
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  Animator - Iron Man 2

  Pixomondo

  January 2010 - March 2010

  Keyframe animation of failing humanoid suit in opening senate hearing sequence.
  Rotomation Iron Man suit in birthday sequence.
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  Animator - Tron Legacy

  Digital Domain

  March 2010 - September 2010

  Vehicle animation, some motion capture editing and blending with keyframe animation for impossible shots for digital doubles.

  
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  Character Animator - Real Steel

  Digital Domain

  September 2010 - November 2010

  I worked primarily on the Midas and Noisy Boy fight editing motion capture and key framing a few shots. Our job was primarily to take the human out of the motion capture and add weight to the robots and impact to the hits. Some small shots were keyframes

  
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  Character Animator - Thor

  Digital Domain

  December 2010 - April 2011

  Keyframe animation for viking villagers running in mass as village is frozen at opening of film.
  Worked with and edited motion capture for Odin's opening battle sequence with frost giants
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  Sr. Character Animator

  Blur Studio

  April 2011 - July 2011

  Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City - Animation for face and body, involving motion capture cleanup and modification as well as key-framing some entire shots.
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  3D Animator

  Pixomondo

  September 2011 - March 2012
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  Animation Instructor / Online Producer

  Gnomon School of Visual Effects

  January 2013 - December 2013

  Hollywood, CA

  Redesigning the animation program from the inside out.
  Teaching all levels of Character and Creature animation courses.
  Character 1 - Intro to 3D Animation
  Character 2 - Body Mechanics
  Character 3 - Body Performance
  Character 4 - Facial Performance and LipSync
  Creature 1 - Real Animals (Large Cats & Horses)
  Creature 2 - Fantasy Animals (Dragon & Open)
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  Animator / Lighting / Texture

  Dream No More Productions

  October 2013 - November 2013

  Reworked a dragon animation I did for The Gnomon School of VFX, I completed additional lighting, texture, and final rendering for use on Dream No More Productions showcase reel for their stage holograph system.
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  Previz Animator

  The Aaron Sims Company

  February 2014 - March 2014

  Beverly Hills, CA

  Creature Animation, Rigging, and Pre visualization for music video.

  
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  Sr Animator

  Blur Studio

  March 2014 - July 2014

  Culver City, CA

  Tom Clancy's: The Division
  Character / Creature animator for promotional Cinematic
  
  Halo: The Master Chief Collection
  Character / Creature and Vehicle animator for cut scene cinematics.

  

  
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  Walt Disney's Jungle Book (Previz Character Anim)

  Digital Domain

  October 2014 - January 2015

  Playa Del Rey

  After completing work for MPC I was hired on by Digital Domain to continue working on Previz and additional detailed performance animation.

  

  
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  Sr Animator

  BioWare

  January 2015 - October 2015

  Austin, Tx

  Working with motion capture and keyframe for in game cinematics animation

  
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  Sr Animator

  FuseFX

  June 2016 - June 2016

  Burbank, CA

  Background Digidoubles