Gianmaria Sorbino

Gianmaria Sorbino

Groom Artist available from September

Senior Groom / CFX artist / 6 yrs

Napoli, Italy

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Passionate Groom Artist and 3D Generalist with 5 years of experience in animation production.
Able to handle multiple tasks, use a creative approach to problem-solving and have experience working as part of a team.
Work History
  • Groom Artist

    Passion Pictures

    April 2024 - July 2024

    - Creating fur, hair and feathers for characters and props in animated productions with the Groom team.
    - Cartoony grooming of humans and animals with Yeti.
    - Using Mudbox and Mari to paint maps and Arnold and Nuke to make daily renders.

  • Groom Artist

    Giant Animation

    January 2024 - April 2024

    - Creating fur, hair and feathers for characters and props in animated productions with the Groom team.
    - Cartoony grooming of humans and animals with Yeti.
    - Using Substance Painter to paint maps and Arnold to make daily renders.

  • Groom / CFX artist

    Mikros Animation

    August 2022 - August 2023
    Montreal, Canada

    - Creating setup for assets' scenes
    - Managing simulations for cloth and hair, shot by shot, using nCloth and nHair.

  • Groom Artist

    Mikros Animation

    January 2022 - August 2023
    Montreal, Canada

    Creating fur, hair and feathers for characters and props in animated productions with the Groom team.
    - Cartoony grooming of humans and animals with Yeti and property tools.
    - Using Katana and Arnold to make daily renders.

  • Groom Artist

    Rainbow CGI

    May 2019 - April 2021
    Rome

    Creating fur, hair, and feathers for characters and props in animated productions with the Groom team.
    - Cartoony grooming of humans and animals in XGen and nHair.
    - Developing workflows to solve problems and necessities.
    - Collaboration with Modeling and Rigging department in order to increase performances for assets.
    - Groom Artist for Disney's Puppy Dog Pals, Rainbow's 44 Cats and Disney's The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild.

  • Lighting Artist and 3D Generalist

    Rainbow CGI

    July 2018 - February 2019
    Rome Area, Italy

    Determined appropriate lighting design and workflow according to places and situations for Rainbow's 44 Cats.
    - Collaborating with Finishing department in order to set up scenes in Maya.
    - Creating lightrig using V-Ray nodes in order to match client references.
    - Assembling shots in Nuke for the purpose of building precomps for compositors.

Education
  • Workshop in Grooming in Yeti: hair solutions for an animation pipeline

    The Gnomon Workshop

    2021 - 2021
  • Workshop in Houdini Grooming 101 with JesusFC

    Creature Garage

    2021 - 2021
  • Workshop in Realistic Dog Grooming for Production with XGen with Jorda

    The Gnomon Workshop

    2019 - 2019
  • Workshop in Creating Dynamic Fur with XGen in Maya by Peter Gend

    Pluralsight

    2019 - 2019
  • Workshop in Maya Dynamics: nHair, Xgen, and Interactive Grooming by Pe

    Pluralsight

    2018 - 2019
  • Master in 3D Digital Production

    Rainbow Academy

    2017 - 2018
  • Laurea, Cinematografia e produzione film/video

    Rome University of Fine Arts

    2014 - 2017