François Tarlier

Work History

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  Chief Technology Officer

  Dwarf Animation Studio

  January 2022 - Present

  Montpellier, Occitanie, France
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  Head of Innovation

  Dwarf Animation Studio

  September 2019 - January 2022

  Montpellier, Occitanie, France
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  Pipeline Manager

  Dwarf Animation Studio

  March 2015 - September 2019

  Montpellier Area, France

• Plugins Development

  AEScripts.com

  July 2010 - February 2016

  Developing scripts and plugins for tedious VFX or Pipeline Tasks. Distributing most of them through AEScripts.com or GitHub.
  Mainly Python and Javascript.
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  Pipeline TD

  Ubisoft

  December 2014 - March 2015

  Montpellier Area, France

  Design of a global pipeline (art, production, dev,...) with the use of Shotgun. Integrating it with 3ds Max, Photoshop, Perforce, Maya, Motion builder, in-house tools, ... on an open-world game
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  Pipeline TD on Just Dance 2015

  Ubisoft

  November 2013 - June 2014

  Paris Area, France

  - Global pipeline design (using production tracking, asset managment tools)
  - Pipeline tools integration design/dev in After Effects, Photoshop, 3ds Max, ...
  - Automation python scripts
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  Compositing & Pipeline TD on Just Dance 2014

  Ubisoft

  September 2012 - July 2013

  - On-set VFX supervisor
  - Compositing TD
  - Post-Process workflow
  - Pipeline (asset management, renderfarm, asset tracking, production tracking,...)
  - FFmpeg batch processing
  - FFmpeg video filter
  - webm, x264 advanced encoding
  - Thinkbox's Deadline renderfarm scripting
  - After Effect scripting
  - Photoshop scripting
  - Python scripting
• 

  Compositing & Pipeline TD on Just Dance 4

  Ubisoft

  January 2012 - August 2012

  - On-set VFX supervisor
  - Compositing
  - Post-Process workflow & pipeline
  - After Effect scripts developments
  - Pixel Bender developments
• 

  Matchmover

  MPC

  July 2011 - December 2011

  - Clash of the Titans 2 (matchmove)
  - Dark Shadows (matchmove)

  

  
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  Pipeline & Compositing TD on "Just Dance 3" & "Abba - You ca

  Ubisoft

  May 2011 - June 2011

  - On-set VFX supervisor
  - Compositing
  - Post-Process workflow & pipeline
  - After Effect scripts developments
  - Pixel Bender developments
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  Compositing TD on "Michael Jackson The Experience" (PS3)

  Ubisoft

  September 2010 - February 2011

  - After Effect JS scripting (workflow tools)
  - Pixel Bender development
  - Post-Process workflow
  - Comp render time optimization
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  Compositing TD on "Michael Jackson The Experience" (Wii)

  Ubisoft

  May 2010 - September 2010

  - On-set VFX supervisor
  - Post-Process workflow
  - After Effect scripts developments
  - Pixel Bender developments
• 

  Matchmover (Freelance)

  Nightshift

  May 2010 - May 2010

  Peugeot 207 | Time Proof Design
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  Artist TD on "Just Dance 2"

  Ubisoft

  January 2010 - May 2010

  tools research
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  Artist TD on YouUp

  Ubisoft

  August 2006 - May 2010

  - working with head tracking technologies
  - prototyping augmented reality apps
  - designing tools for the CG team
  - graphical/technical research
  - designing graphic production pipeline
  - Matchmover
  - real time compositing research
  - outsourcing training (in Singapore)
  - scripting : Lua, javascript, python
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  Matchmover (freelance)

  Nightshift

  March 2010 - April 2010

  - Bouygues Entreprise commercials
  - Calibre de Cartier commercial
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  Matchmover (freelance)

  Nightshift

  January 2010 - January 2010

  "Transition" commercial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=800M1P855K4
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  Environment Artist

  Ubisoft

  January 2005 - September 2005

  Modeling and Mapping of King Kong Video game assets

• CG Artist

  Art & design

  August 2004 - November 2004

  working for an interior design company as a CG artist (modeling, texturing, lighting, rendering