Gaël Kerchenbaum

Work History

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  Creature Supervisor

  Eevolver, Inc.

  March 2023 - June 2023

  Supervising Asset Creation (Anatomy, digital models, Surfacing). Designing believable anatomy from the inside out. Looking over the Surfacing workflow for Artists and providing guidance for CFX modeling.
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  Character Artist

  Valve Corporation

  March 2022 - February 2023

  Remote
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  Creature Concept Artist

  Netflix

  December 2021 - February 2022
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  Creature specialist

  PRO Unlimited @Facebook AI

  August 2020 - December 2021

  London, England, United Kingdom · Remote

• creature artist

  Ubisoft Shanghai

  August 2020 - July 2021

  London, UK
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  creature artist

  Eidos Montreal

  August 2020 - August 2020

  London, UK
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  Creature Supervisor

  Double Negative

  October 2019 - July 2020
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  Character Artist

  Double Negative

  October 2019 - December 2019

  London, United Kingdom

• 3Dscan

  February 2019 - March 2019

  London, UK

• creature artist

  Untold

  January 2019 - February 2019

  London, UK
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  Character Artist

  Sinking Ship Entertainment

  September 2018 - December 2018

  Remote
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  creature artist

  Sinking Ship Entertainment

  September 2018 - December 2018

  Remote
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  Creature TD

  One Of Us

  April 2018 - August 2018

  London, United Kingdom
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  creature artist

  Axis Animation

  October 2017 - February 2018
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  Creature artist

  Axis Animation

  November 2017 - November 2017
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  Creature Designer

  Netflix

  April 2019 - August 2019

  Los Angeles, California, United States · Remote

  Designing some of the Hero Creatures for the Live Action show Avatar: The Last Airbender, under the supervision of the show producer, Bryan Konietzko.
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  Freelance Creature Designer

  Freelance

  April 2016 - Present

  London, United Kingdom · Remote

  https://www.gaelkerchenbaum.art/
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  Creature Supervisor

  Double Negative

  January 2020 - July 2020

  Working as a Creature Supervisor for DNeg. Looking over the creation of Creature assets for a specific show. Developing workflows and building documentation to provide guidance to our artists for upcoming projects.
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  T.Rex: lookDev and Lighting with Maya - Modeling and Texturing

  The Gnomon Workshop Inc.

  October 2016 - November 2016

  I was lucky enough to be part of the creation of a CG T.Rex for a Gnomon Workshop tutorial, along with two other amazing artists, Charles Chorein and Thomas Obrecht.
  
  I was responsible for the Modeling and Texturing parts. Thomas Obrecht took care of the Rigging and Animation process. Charles Chorein was our supervisor and worked on the Look Development and Compositing steps.
  
  This shot was created for the tutorial about Look Development that you can access with the following link : thegnomonworkshop.com/tutorials/trex-lookdev-and-lighting-with-maya-and-arnold
  
  I wish to thanks both of my two colleagues for this amazing project !
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  Creature Supervisor

  Feed Me Light

  July 2023 - September 2023

  London, England, United Kingdom

  Creature Supervision at Feed Me Light.
  Assisting with workflow assessment.
  Focusing on asset preparation, from concept sculpting to look dev.
  Providing the character team with expert-level anatomy feedback.
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  Build TD

  Double Negative

  October 2019 - January 2020

  London, United Kingdom

  Creature modeling and texturing.
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  Senior freelance Creature Artist

  Untold Studios

  January 2019 - February 2019

  London, United Kingdom

  Creature modeling and texturing
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  Senior freelance Creature Artist

  Foundry

  February 2019 - February 2019

  London, United Kingdom

  Asset texturing and rendering for Foundry.
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  Freelance Senior Creature Artist

  Unit Motion Design

  March 2019 - April 2019

  Creature Artist for Unit Image's Motion Design (UMD) department.
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  Freelance Creature Artist

  Self Employed

  September 2018 - January 2020

  London, United Kingdom

  https://www.gaelkerchenbaum.art/
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  Senior Freelance Creature Artist

  Ten24 Media LTD

  March 2019 - February 2020

  Remote

  Creature modelling for 3D Scan Store
  https://www.3dscanstore.com/
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  Freelance creature artist

  3dtotal.com Ltd

  December 2017 - August 2018

  Creature artist for 3D Total
  https://shop.3dtotal.com/3dtotal-anatomy-3-piece-set-of-animal-figures.html
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  Instructor

  CG Master Academy

  February 2018 - April 2020

  Sculpting Anatomy from Animal to Creature - Class Instructor.
  
  https://3dclassroom.cgmasteracademy.com/elective/2108
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  Creature artist

  Capsule studio

  August 2017 - September 2017

  Région de Paris, France

  Creature modeling and texturing
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  Freelance creature artist

  Axis Animation

  October 2017 - February 2018

  London, United Kingdom

  Creature modeling and texturing
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  3D Character Modeller

  Bacon Productions

  August 2017 - August 2017

• Toys sculptor

  Culture Shock Toys Inc

  June 2017 - August 2017

  Collectible sculpting
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  Digital Sculpting instructor

  Isart Digital

  March 2016 - June 2017

  Région de Paris , France
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  Creature Artist

  Cube Creative

  May 2017 - June 2017

  Région de Paris, France

  Creature modeling, texturing and look development.

• 3D instructor

  EPAC Comics Animation Game Art school

  September 2016 - June 2017

  Saxon, Canton du Valais, Suisse

  3D instructor. Teaching zbrush, substance designer, substance painter, maya, mari...

• Freelance Creature Artist

  Noemotion

  March 2017 - April 2017

  Creature modeling, texturing and look dev.
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  Zbrush instructor

  ECV - École de Communication Visuelle

  December 2016 - December 2016

  Région de Paris, France

  Workshop animal anatomy in Zbrush

• 3d instructor

  ISART Digital School

  February 2016 - July 2016

  Paris, France

  Teaching students how to model, sculpt and texture.

• Zbrush instructor

  3 Axes Institut

  January 2016 - January 2016

  Tourcoing, France

  Teaching students Zbrush advanced techniques to ready them for the work in production ( camera line up, blendshapes based on FACS... )

• Technical Writer

  Texturingxyz

  December 2015 - January 2016

  Writing instructions about how to use files provided by Texturingxyz.
  Be sure to have a look at https://texturing.xyz/

• Zbrush instructor

  3 Axes Institut

  November 2015 - December 2015

  Région de Rennes , France

  Workshop Zbrush, teaching students how to use Zbrush to create 3D characters.
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  Mudbox instructor

  3IS - Institut International de l'Image et du Son

  November 2015 - November 2015

  Région de Paris , France

  Workshop Mudbox, teaching how to create an asset from scratch in a production environment ( concept sculpt, retopology, UVs, texturing ).

• Character Artist

  Century E. Favour

  August 2015 - October 2015

  Working on characters for an unannounced projet.

• Character Artist

  Essence Team

  May 2015 - June 2015

  Working on some background characters for the short film Essence.
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  Modeling TD

  MPC

  August 2014 - April 2015

  London, Royaume-Uni

  

  
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  Texturing // Shading

  Ubisoft

  July 2014 - July 2014

  Région de Montreuil, France