Halim Negadi

Work History

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  Founder

  LIVEYARD

  December 2019 - Present

  Paris, Île-de-France, France
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  Head of Creatures & Performance Technology

  The Future Group AS

  December 2017 - August 2019

  Oslo Area, Norway

  Responsible for Design, Implementation & Deployment of a Production Pipeline
  using Unreal Engine 4™ as final interactive output.
  Responsible for Design, Implementation & Deployment of the Creatures & Performance Pipeline.
  Responsible for delivery of final Unreal animated characters assets for the KDA Popstars Show.
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  Lighting TD | Product Engineer

  Isotropix

  September 2015 - June 2017

  Montpellier Area, France

  Core, end user specification & beta testing of Istropix Clarisse™ in tight collaboration with R&D engineers. Rising & tracking of feature requests/bugs/regressions
  Development of production tools using Clarrisse.™ API.
  Integration in client's production environments, staff Training, Content & Training material creation, online training & support.
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  Pipeline TD, Assets

  Animal Logic

  January 2015 - August 2015

  Sydney, Australia

  Handling of the unique challenges which arise in a Pipeline consisting of Assets made from
  a library of Lego Bricks ( Schematic/Procedural Assets ).
  Augmentation and prototyping of the asset pipeline. Ensuring stability in asset builds.
  Gatekeeper of the production tool environments.
  Liaising with R&D in finding solutions to technical issues and providing support for 50+ artists.
  Liasing with downstream departments to resolve version conflicts and asset related rendering issues.

  
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  Head of Production Technology

  FORGE ANIMATION

  October 2012 - September 2014

  Paris ( France )

  Responsible for a 40+ people pre-production team including Art / CG / RnD & IT.
  
  Focused on assets interoperability, scene assembly with large amounts of data, lazy loading, dependencies & overrides handling within a non destructive collaborative workflow, the pipeline we designed had to remain as software agnostic and as seamless as possible. Bridges using metadata alongside with standard interchange formats helped us to mix several third party software packages within a unified production environment.
  
  Specification of the data and production tracking services.
  Supervision of the IT infrastructure, deployment of virtualized self-hosted secured services with a single ldap sign on such as: gitlab, wiki, mail, chat, calendar, self hosted file exchange service. Master/Slave remote and local ldap authentication. On and off site storage synchronization and backup.

• Lighting TD | Product Engineer

  The Bakery

  January 2011 - February 2012

  Gemenos (France)

  GUI/end-user specification & beta testing of Relight™
  Specification & beta testing of Alembic support.
  Online support & training, content & training material creation.
  Integration in clients production environments & staff training, integration with renderfarm managers ( DrQueue™, Muster™, Deadline™ ).
  Cybergroup Studios (Paris), GDC ( Shenzhen, China )
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  Lighting TD

  Walking The Dog

  April 2010 - December 2010

  Brussels Area, Belgium

  Lighting Compositing pipeline design and implementation on the animated feature "A Monster In Paris"
  xml based library implemetation for dumping / retrieving Softimage|XSI data
  xml based batch rebuild of final layout scenes, queue manager for all batch rebuilders
  Automated Pass Creation / Partition Feed in Softimage|XSI, Automatic Nuke Precomp trees with each asset in its own backdrop
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  Creature Technical Director

  Industrial Light & Magic

  November 2009 - March 2010

  San Francisco Bay Area

  Character Rigging (Creatures & Digital Doubles), Motion Capture Retargetting, Soft and Rigid
  Dynamics Simulations, Final Layout Shots Rebuilding.

• Rigging Supervisor

  EuropaCorp - Bibo films

  October 2006 - October 2009

  

• Head of Performance Technology

  Europacorp / The Pumpkin Factory

  February 2008 - October 2009

  Paris Area, France

  Responsible for Design, Implementation and Deployment of the Rigging Framework & Animation Pipeline.
  

• Head of Performance Technology

  Europacorp / The Pumpkin Factory

  December 2006 - January 2008

  Paris Area, France

  Character Development Lead
  Specification & implementation of the automated Character Rigging solution
  Animation Pipeline Engineer
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  CG Supervisor

  UVPH

  August 2006 - November 2006

  Greater New York City Area

• Animation & Ligthing TD

  Omation Studios

  November 2005 - August 2006

  
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  Lighting & Pipeline TD

  Omation

  October 2005 - July 2006

  San Clemente, California

  Lighting / Compositing TD
  Tools development for the Lighting / Compositing dept.
  Shots Lighting & Compositing
  
  Animation / FX TD
  Delivery of Character Assets, Crowd shots setup
  Tools development for the Animation dept.
  
  Character Finaling TD
  Shots finaling, tools development for the Final Layout dept.
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  Animation TD

  Neomis Animation

  June 2005 - September 2005
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  Character TD

  Cube Creative

  December 2004 - April 2005
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  Animation TD

  Action Synthese

  February 2004 - October 2004
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  Lighting / Compositing Artist

  Action Synthese

  May 2003 - January 2004

• Mocap / Character TD

  API Productions

  November 2002 - April 2003
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  Character Setup & CG Artist

  BUF

  August 2000 - September 2002

• CG Artist

  Digital Group

  October 1997 - August 2000

• Systems Engineer & CG Artist

  PICTO - Studio de la Comète

  March 1995 - August 1996