Lana Sun

Work History

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  FX TD

  Pixar

  March 2016 - July 2018
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  fx technical director

  Pixar

  March 2015 - March 2016
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  Effects Artist

  DreamWorks Animation

  September 2010 - January 2015

  B.O.O (Feature Film) 2013.4 - 2015.1
  - Wrote ghost trail system for crowd characters using Houdini and Python, including pipeline tool to export crowd characters from Massive into Houdini, generating trails for hundreds of crowd characters which are fast to render, and matching the look of hero trails.
  Home (Feature Film) 2013.1 - 2013.4
  - Built “Emoting system” for crowd characters
  Mr. Peabody & Sherman (Feature Film) 2012.9 - 2013.1
  - Built glass liquid system using Houdini and Python to ease and quicken the artists’ workflow
  - Received recognition for implementing the glass liquid system, running training, and saving costs
  - Animated, simulated, rendered, and composited art-directed vfx; time travel, fire, smoke, water spray
  Rise of the Guardians (Feature Film) 2012.6 - 2012.9
  - Collaborated with other artists on same sequence working on dream sand effects
  - Completed shots under intense deadline pressure
  - Modified generic dream sand particle system for specific shots
  Pipeline Tools 2012.5 - 2012.6
  - Wrote script using Python which provides an efficient way to see the difference between large Houdini hip files and copy nodes settings as desired
  Madagascar 3 (Feature Film) 2011.3 - 2012.5
  - Wrote the grass smoosh system to automatically calculate character force and contact area
  - Built a feather system using simple math and physics calculation instead of expensive cloth simulation. It can process hundreds of feathers in real time
  - Made gunshot effects completely by digital hand drawing
  FX Challenge (Training) 2010.9 - 2011.3
  - Wrote a ray-tracing project including soft shadow, color spill, ambient occlusion, anti-aliasing
  - Wrote smoke and sparks animation in Python, rendered out and composited to feature film quality image. The animation is deterministic
  - Wrote particle simulation in Python to simulate god ray effects and caustic effects underwater using in-house scripting language
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  Pixar

  ? - Present