Dave Howe
Senior Digital Artist / 24 yrs
Singapore
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Work History
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Senior Lighting Technical Director
Industrial Light & Magic
October 2013 - May 2018
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Senior Lighting Technical Director
Sony Pictures Imageworks
February 2011 - September 2013"Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2" - Senior Lighter & Compositor.
"Hotel Transylvania" - Senior Lighter & Compositor.
"The Smurfs" - Senior Lighter & Compositor on full-cg Smurf Village sequences.
"The Smurfs: A Christmas Carol" (short film) - Senior Lighter & Compositor.
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Senior Technical Director
Walt Disney Animation Studios
August 2009 - March 2011Projects:
"Tangled" - Senior Lighter/Compositor.
"The Lion Kind 3D" - Stereo Conversion Artist/Compositor.
"Beauty & The Beast 3D" - Stereo Conversion Artist/Compositor.
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Senior Technical Director
Industrial Light & Magic
July 2008 - August 2009Projects: "Transformers 2", and "Star Trek" the J.J. Abram's re-boot.
Responsibilities: Sequence key lighting; shot lighting; publicity stills for Luxor Hotel & Casino, Hasbro Inc, and Paramount. The highlight of the promotional stills was lighting and rendering of the 200' mural that was displayed on the Luxor pyramid, my first 16k render!
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Senior Technical Director
Sony Pictures Imageworks
February 2004 - June 2008Responsibilities: Lighting, Compositing, Look Development, and RenderMan Shader Writing.
Projects included: Hancock; I Am Legend; The Chicago Spire (Architectural Visualization); Surf's Up; Open Season; The Aviator; Spider-Man 2, and BeWitched.
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Technical Director - Massive
Wētā FX
January 2003 - November 2003Created crowed simulations, and setup the "brains" of several characters and animals used in the simulations.
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Technical Director - Lighting
Wētā FX
March 2002 - November 2002Wellington, New ZealandLighting for Gollum, Treebeard, and digital doubles in "LOTR: The Two Towers".
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Technical Director
Industrial Light & Magic
March 2001 - March 2002Lighting, compositing, and fx work on "Star Wars: Episode II".
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