Derrick Auyoung

Work History

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  Senior Animation Technical Director

  Wētā FX

  November 2006 - November 2014

  Wellington, NZ

  - Providing tools, UI's and workflows for animators
  - Liaison between animators/previs artists and other departments including creature TDs (riggers), layout TDs, and motion-editors/motion-capture TDs
  - current productions: The Hobbit: There and Back Again, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
  - past productions: The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug, Iron-Man 3, Man of Steel, The Hobbit, The Avengers, Prometheus, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, The Adventures of Tintin, Rise of the Planet of the Apes (animated some production shots as well), X-Men: First Class, Avatar

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
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  Animation Layout Technical Director

  Rhythm & Hues Studios

  January 2005 - October 2006

  - Lead TD: Night at the Museum
  - Lead TD: Charlotte's Web
  - TD: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe
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  Pipeline Technical Support

  Rhythm & Hues Studios

  July 2003 - December 2004

  - The Ring Two
  - Garfield: The Movie
  - wrote perl scripts for passing information through the pipeline

  

  

  

  

• Resident Technology Supervisor

  Office of Residential Life, UCLA

  2002 - 2003

  - managed the residence hall computer lab networks
  - supervised on-campus programming/workshops/tech events for residents