Gavyn Thompson

Work History

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  Pipeline TD

  Blizzard Entertainment

  June 2017 - June 2019

  Los Angeles, California, US
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  Pipeline and Tools Developer

  Industrial Light & Magic

  September 2014 - June 2017

  At ILM I’m the primary developer for Generalist department. I’m located in the San Francisco office, but I meet the development needs of a department reaching about 250+ artists in San Francisco, Vancouver, and Singapore. I’ve built up an asset pipeline from scratch that ties into the existing pipeline of the greater company with minimal impact on the way the Generalists prefer to work, which is very different from the other departments. The biggest thing that separates this department from the rest is that we’re on Windows while all others are on Linux, and we’re using 3dsmax as our primary application. I’ve been able to set up an array of asset tools for publishing, and importing with all manner of different options that allow us to share work between departments. Generalists can create an asset and publish it over to Maya, Zeno, or Unreal, and likewise we can ingest assets created in those other applications. We’ve also developed in-house scene description frame works that allow us to publish entire scenes including all assets, particles systems, and lighting back and forth between packages. And so much more...
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  CG Lead / Technical Artist

  Pixomondo

  October 2013 - September 2014
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  Scene Assembly / Lighting TD

  Blur Studio

  August 2013 - September 2013
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  3D Generalist / Lighting TD

  Encore VFX

  June 2013 - August 2013
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  Lighting TD

  Mirada Studios

  May 2013 - May 2013

  Mazda Signature (Mazda 3 Spot)
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  CG Supervisor

  Pixomondo

  June 2012 - May 2013

  Oblivion
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  Shading/Lighting Lead

  Pixomondo

  January 2012 - May 2012

  The Amazing Spiderman
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  3D Generalist / Lighting TD

  Pixomondo

  February 2010 - January 2012

  Sucker Punch
  Green Hornet
  Red Tails
  Hugo
  Snow White and the Huntsman

• 3D Generalist

  Sabertooth Interactive

  November 2009 - February 2010

  Mass Effect 2 cinematic for online marketing campaign.
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  3D Generalist

  Speedshape

  September 2009 - November 2009

  HESS race car Christmas commercial.
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  3D Generalist

  Frantic Films

  June 2009 - September 2009

  Avatar
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  FX Artist

  Uncharted Territory

  March 2009 - June 2009

  Vehicle FX on 2012.

• 3D Generalist

  Master Key Films

  September 2008 - March 2009

  Knight Rider and various TV productions
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  3D Generalist

  Master Key Toronto

  2008 - 2009

  Various TV productions

• Viz Artist

  Studio F1

  2007 - 2008

  Architectural Visualization.
  Modeling, texturing, lighting, animation, etc...

• CAD Team Lead

  CMX

  2004 - 2007

  Civil engineering plans for large-scale master planned communities.