gary tang

Work History

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  Freelance CG Artist

  Freelance

  January 2015 - October 2017

  Greater Los Angeles Area

  Various projects
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  3D Modeler/Texture Artist

  Blur Studio

  July 2017 - November 2017

  culver city

  Love death and robot
  Night of the Mini Dead
  
  HardSurface Modeling
  Character Modeling
  Retopo/MeshCleanup
  LowPoly Modeling
  Texturing and look dev
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  3D Artist

  mOcean

  October 2017 - December 2017

  Greater Los Angeles Area

  Avenger's Infinity war Trailer
  Avenger's Infinity war International Trailer
  Hotel Transylvania Trailer
  
  Motion Graphics
  3D Modeling
  Compositing
  Graphics
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  AR/Unreal Artist

  The Famous Group

  July 2020 - October 2020

  Los Angeles County, California, United States

  Augmented Reality Artist
  Model/Look dev/Lighting in Unreal Engine, Realtime workflow.
  Asset conversation and management
  
  NasCar AR
  WWE Opening AR
  Hello Sunshine AR
  League of legend World Opening Ceremony 2020. AR
  Stadio Live concert AR
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  Senior 3D Generalist

  Crafty Apes

  February 2021 - August 2021

  Los Angeles County, California, United States

  Hardsurface/Charater Model
  Hardsurface/Charater lookdev
  Hardsurface/Charater Rigging
  Previs
  rigging
  Animation
  Lighting
  Establishing Character and digi-double Pipeline from the ground up.
  
  Pickard
  Orville
  King Richard
  shotgun wedding
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  Senior Character Artist

  Digital Frontier

  November 2021 - January 2022

  Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

  Resident Evil- Netflix TV series.
  Lock and Keys - Netflix TV series.
  
  Creating 10+ Zombie Digi doubles used for crowd simulation
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  CG lead/VFX Supervisor

  Ingenuity Studios

  August 2021 - March 2023

  Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

  Supervised projects
  
  Psych 3
  The big Leap
  The good fight
  House Party
  The Boys (Amazon)
  Mr. Mayor
  Our Flag means Death
  The Righteous Gem Stone
  Mayor of Kingstown
  Are you there god, It's me, Margret
  Magnum P.I.
  DAVE
  Chippendales
  Loot
  The Tales of the walking Dead
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  Senior Lighter/Comp Artist

  Digital Frontier

  March 2023 - April 2023

  Look development of character and lighting matching style for
  Sony's Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
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  Senior Unreal 5 Artist

  AFX Creative

  April 2023 - April 2023

  Unreal layout and Asset optimizations
  Pack shots, Environment building.
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  Senior 3D Generalist

  Warm & Fuzzy

  April 2023 - July 2023

  Hero Quality Vehicle Lookdev.
  Environment design/lookdev.
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  Head of CG

  Swing Set Productions

  June 2023 - Present

  Huntington Beach, California, United States · Hybr

  Establishing VFX pipeline from ground up
  Oversight on all VFX projects
  Staffing
  Bidding
  VFX supervision
  Creative direction
  Internal training and Artist development
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  Sergeant

  United States Marine Corps

  October 2009 - October 2013

  Trained Marines physically and mentally for fleet and deployment. Managed office workflow, supervised Marine's daily duty, helping Marines deal with professional and personal issues, Accountability for all Marines under my charge.
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  Budget Manager

  United States Marine Corps

  August 2012 - October 2013

  twentynine palms

  I managed the Battalion's budget as the budget manager who oversees the Battalion's spending.
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  Black Belt Martial art instructor

  United States Marine Corps

  October 2012 - October 2013

  Twentynine palms

  I was one of the three Martial Art instructors who was able to teach up to Black Belts in the whole Battalion, I've trained/tested out over 200 Marines to the next belt level/
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  cg senior artist

  FuseFX

  October 2019 - April 2020

  Senior 3D generalist
  Model
  Texture
  Lookdev
  Lighting
  Crowds
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  Character Artist

  DreamWorks Animation

  November 2018 - April 2020

  Project TBA
  
  Oversee Assets from out sourced studio
  Final Notes on Production assets
  Model/UV/Layout In House Assets
  Creative Decision Making
  HardSurface/Character/Environment Modeling
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  Character Artist

  Encore VFX

  December 2017 - October 2019

  Burbank

  Flash
  SuperGirl
  Legend of Tomorrow
  DC's Titans
  Doom Patrol
  All American
  2018 CW CrossOver
  Seal Team
  Black Lighting
  
  character modeling/texture/lookdev
  environment modeling/texture/lookdev
  hardsurface modeling/texture/lookdev
  Concepting
  Grooming, hair and fur
  layout, Scene assembly
  Lighting/render

  
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  3D Modeler

  Blur Studio

  September 2018 - January 2019

  3D modeler
  Scene assembling
  asset conversion
  lookdev
  texture
  
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  3D Artist

  mOcean

  August 2018 - December 2018

  Los angeles

  Motion Graphics
  3D modeler
  LookDev
  Lighting
  Rendering.