Geoff Marshall

Work History

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  CG Environment Supervisor

  SPIN VFX

  April 2022 - Present
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  CG Supervisor

  Freelance

  August 2015 - Present

  Toronto
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  Team leader

  Freelance

  May 2015 - Present
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  Freelance CG artist/designer

  Freelance

  March 2013 - Present

  Montreal
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  Compositing supervisor

  Yowza! Animation

  June 2020 - March 2022

  Toronto

• We'll be right back

  after these messages

  2018 - February 2019
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  Senior 3D Artist

  Rocket Science VFX

  June 2016 - March 2018

  Toronto, Canada Area

  

  
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  Team Lead Lighting/Compositing

  Awesometown Entertainment

  May 2014 - May 2015

  Toronto, Canada Area

  Look development, lighting lead and compositing lead
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  Lighting Artist

  Digital Dimension

  December 2012 - March 2013

  Montreal, Canada Area

  Worked on Dragons 3D and an undisclosed gaming cinematic.

  
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  Lighting for VFX and matte painting

  Mr. X

  March 2012 - December 2012

  Toronto, ontario, Canada

  Lighting for massive water sims and lookdev of wireframe sequences, some matte painting as well, all in stereo for "Resident Evil 5", also another as yet unreleased feature.

  

  

• Freelance animation, design, and music.

  Grafiktank

  January 2011 - December 2011

  Animation director "Ballad of Hugh" and "I Heart Doomsday"
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  TD Lighter

  Modus FX

  July 2010 - January 2011

  Lit "March of The Dinosaurs" and "Sarila" (stereo). Did some houdini vfx as well.

  

  

• Creative Director

  Grafiktank

  June 2009 - July 2010

  Grafiktank is the brand under which I pile all my graphical endeavours. Makes a nifty t-shirt, as well.

• Lighting, Modeling Texture

  Pop6

  October 2009 - April 2010

  My first Softimage gig. I learned the lighting and modeling interface over a weekend, and picked up texturing the following week. Once you've learned Houdini, the rest are easy.

• Freelance animator

  Fundex Games, Ltd.

  February 2010 - February 2010

  Designing animation and graphics for handheld games.

• Animator/Designer

  Irwin Toys

  December 2007 - June 2009

  Designing and animating animations for handheld toys. I've done animation for Jumbotron and Cinemascope, but getting something to read at 64X61 pixels was harder.

• Senior Creative

  Thinking Media

  January 2009 - May 2009

  I animated a series of live interactive games in 3DMax for the Hockey Hall of fame and a Korean firm. Max was sooo easy to use!!
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  All Rounder

  Mokko Studio

  November 2007 - December 2007

  Worked on a science show (broadcast).

  
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  All Rounder/Lighting

  Meteor Studios

  April 2007 - November 2007

  Worked on pioneering stereo 3D flick "Journey to the Center of the Earth", as well as projects for the Discovery Channel.

• Senior Animator

  Crush

  2003 - 2006

  I was head of a team of animators creating commercials for leading brands, as well as broadcast and film pieces. My first Maya/Mentalray gig. Maya took about two weeks to learn.

• President/Creative Director

  Chromacide

  1997 - 2003

  This was my company in the late nineties, providing animation and music to a wide variety of projects.
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  Senior Animator

  SPIN VFX

  1996 - 1997

  More commercials and broadcast stuff. We did one TV movie, as well, destroying the statue of Liberty with Houdini and Renderman!

• Senior Animator

  D.A.V.E.

  1995 - 1996

  This was my first gig in the world of advertising. We did a bunch of pioneering fx using the newly released Houdini Software. I remember asking for web access and my boss saying, "Why should we get the internet? We're a post-production house!"
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  Senior Animator

  CBC

  1993 - 1995

  I was lucky enough to work at Ceebcore just before the old-school designers/animators retired. I learned a lot from them.

• Art Director

  Exclaim!

  1992 - 1993

  I was one of the three founders of this music tabloid, which originally had a 6 page comic supplement as well. I designed the original logo which was unpronouncable - !#@* I never thought I would need to use the @ key again.

• Graphics Director

  CTV News

  1989 - 1992

  I was head of a very talented team of artists, creating over the shoulder graphics, bumpers, and full animation packages for all of CTV's national news programs including CTV National News With Lloyd Robertson, W5 and Canada Am. Dan Matheson called me "Jungle Geoff".

• Animator

  P.R.S.

  1987 - 1988

  A small company doing graphics on an Amiga!! What?

• Digital Cel Painter

  Colorization

  1985 - 1986

  The screaming hordes never got me for this one.
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  Cel Painter

  Nelvana

  1983 - 1984

  I did cel-shading when it still required vinyl paint.