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Jason Madsen

Lighting Artist / Digital Compositor / 16 yrs

Los Angeles, CA

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Lighting And Compositing Artist

The Smurfs 2 (2013)

Lighting & Compositing Artist

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (2013)

Lighting TD

Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)

CG Lighting And Compositing Artist

Men in Black 3 (2012)

Visual Effects Artist

Zookeeper (2011)

Lighting & Compositing Artist

Arthur Christmas (2011)

CG Lighting And Compositing Artist

Green Lantern (2011)

Lighting TD

Alice in Wonderland (2010)

Render Assistant

A Christmas Carol (2009)

3D Stereoscopic Lighting Artist

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009)

Senior Production Services Technician

G-Force (2009)

Production Service Technician

Surf's Up (2007)

Senior PST

Open Season (2006)

Production Services Technician

Zathura: A Space Adventure (2005)

Production Services Technician

Zathura (2005)

Work History

Head Nigh Cleanup Boy

Stealth Startu

May 2021 - Present
Tintypist

TintypeBooth

November 2013 - Present

Pouring, developing, fixing, washing, drying and varnishing tintypes.
Compositor

The Molecule

April 2016 - May 2016
Scene Assembly

Blur Studio

August 2014 - September 2014

Lighting, Comp, Look Dev, Layout
VFX Lighter

Sony Pictures Imageworks

March 2009 - August 2013

Created and maintained macros and templates in Nuke and Katana.
Fine tuned ray tracing parameters for optimal render time and image quality.
Adjusted scene lighting for volumetric and FX elements.
Preformed lookdev when needed for one-offs.
Sr. Production Services Tech

Sony Pictures Imageworks

January 2005 - March 2009

Break between 04/2007-06/2008

Provided consistent high-quality technical production support. Monitored renders and disk usage. Tool scripting in bash, python and perl.

Designed and implemented queue booking algorithm and tools.
Developed disk clean up application based on element usage and age.

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