Francois Schneider

Work History

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  Creative Supervisor

  ReDefine

  April 2021 - March 2024

  Montreal, Quebec

  Led a team of 15 supervisors and 50 artists through digital transformation to deliver a $7M project, facilitating the delivery of a 14x26’ animated series with Unreal Engine.
  Led a team of 10 concept artists to deliver hundreds of pages reference art in line with the Director’s vision to CG artists.
  Technical consultant to production leadership team answering 5 RFPs with 2 successful bids.
  
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  CG supervisor

  ReDefine

  October 2018 - April 2021

  Montreal, Canada

  Led teams of dozens of supervisors and leads across 3 continents to deliver 5 animated feature films and episodic project with a combined budget of $20M.
  Supported outsourcing processes and workflows for 1 award-winning series.
  Trained 12 CG supervisors in Mumbai for 2 different business units.
  Rebalanced workload between 3 operation centres to keep 2 projects moving during pandemic lockdowns.
  
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  CG supervisor

  Singing Frog Studio

  March 2017 - October 2018

  Montreal, Quebec, Canada

  Technical consultant to production and directors for a VR experience combining 4k 360° stereoscopic video and D-Box seat movement technology.
  Led a team of 4 wranglers for industry record-breaking cloud rendering operations to deliver a $11M animated feature film, RaceTime !
  

  

• Graphic designer, videographer

  Franssu Digital Images

  2004 - October 2018

  Montreal, Canada Area

  Digital production workflow cunsulting, flyers and other printed material design, logo design, motion graphics, digital photography, HD video DoP and editing, compositing, visual effects, software development, color management consulting, you name it...
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  CG supervisor

  MPC

  December 2015 - March 2017

  Montreal, Canada Area · On-site

  Led a team of 15 artists to ingest 800 TB of data from 3 outsourcing vendors, enabling the delivery of hologram visual effects on a $110M feature film, Ghost In The Shell.
  

• DJ / producer / promoter

  Kaizen

  January 2014 - January 2017

  Montreal, Canada Area

  Playing all kinds of house and techno, but with a marked preference for deep downtempo beats sublty seasoned with some world music sounds, always staying super groovy.
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  CG supervisor

  Cinesite

  March 2015 - December 2015

  Montreal, QC, Canada

  Provided technical support to supervision and tracking/layout teams to integrate 2D/3D workflows to deliver two key sequences on a $135M feature film, The Revenant
  
  Established workflow and specific rigging tools for the FX of the witch rebirth sequence in The Last Witch Hunter.
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  CG supervisor

  Vision Globale

  June 2014 - March 2015

  Montreal, QC, Canada

  Delivered a VFX feature film (Fallen) in a studio undergoing a full production pipeline transition.
  
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  Directeur Technique // Animation

  MELS Studios

  April 2012 - June 2014

  Defined and supported the production pipeline for a new CG animation studio.
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  membre

  Francogénie

  2004 - August 2012

  One of the founding members of the association. Member of the board for 6 years, then in charge of ad hoc commitee for social media.
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  Director of Technologies

  Newbreed Visual Effects

  January 2010 - April 2012

  Montreal, Canada Area · On-site

  In charge of all software technologies, internal or third-parties.
  Led the SR&ED; tax credit submission process for the studio.
  Managed the R&D and TDs teams to support artists and production to deliver a number of feature films and commercials.
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  R&D and Software manager

  Newbreed Visual Effects

  September 2009 - January 2010

  Software development and TD management, software testing and validation, licenses management, color pipeline supervision.
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  Technical Director

  Newbreed Visual Effects

  October 2008 - September 2009

  Software evaluation, validation and licenses management. Participation in the conception and development of our new production pipeline. General TD stuff.
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  Technical Director

  damnfx

  April 2008 - September 2008

  Montreal, Quebec, Canada · On-site

  Rendering TD, pipeline tools R&D, color management consulting
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  Pipeline TD

  Lumiere VFX Inc.

  March 2008 - April 2008

  Montreal, Quebec, Canada · On-site

  Pipeline R&D and archaeology, Mental Ray shader support, TD support work, color consulting.
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  Technical Director / Color Management Consultant

  Meteor Studios

  March 2007 - November 2007

  Set up and optimized the 3D projection room used by all East Coast VFX studios working on Journey to the Centre of the Earth 3D.
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  Pipeline Developer and Color Freak

  Meteor Studios

  March 2006 - March 2007

  Software development, mainly for the production pipeline, software evaluation and benchmarking, color management for digital cinema and television.
  Mamaged LUTs and color transforms for the movie 300.
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  Digital Managing Director

  TouTenKartoon

  April 2002 - March 2006

  Montreal, Quebec, Canada

  Created various 2D/3D integration workflows for animated TV shows, opening credits and pilots.
  Trained artists in Korea on our proprietary software.
  Managed the IT and Software R&D departments.
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  Software Developer

  TouTenKartoon

  April 1997 - March 2002

  Paris, Île-de-France, France · On-site

  Developed 2D animation and BG scanning software to complete our in-house 2D animation suite.
  Developed a web-based pipeline to help artists and IT manage shots work and rendering.
  Created 2D/3D integration workflows and software.