Jérôme Drese

Work History

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  Grid VFX

  May 2018 - May 2019
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  Rigging Supervisor

  nWave Digital

  August 2013 - April 2018

  Supervising the rigging team on the upcoming features films.
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  Character TD

  nWave Digital

  January 2013 - August 2013

  Co supervising the Rigging department with Alan Claes for the upcoming nWaves features.
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  Rigging Supervisor

  Grid VFX

  June 2012 - January 2013

  Quest:
  - Rigging dept supervision. Created an auto rig puppet system.
  
  Zoostation (trailer):
  - Created all props and character rigs within a week
  
  Asterix "Le domaine des dieux"
  - Help creating several check and modeling tools.
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  Character FX

  Digital Domain

  July 2011 - June 2012

  Vancouver, Canada Area

  Jack the Giant Slayer:
  - Lead hair artist
  - Created several grooms on hero giants and some digital doubles.
  - Sims on some of the movie shots.
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  Rigging Supervisor

  Luxanimation

  May 2010 - July 2011

  "Little Nick" (M6) season 2:
  - Rigging sup. and technical lead for the "Little Nick" project season 2.
  - Created an fast auto rig puppet system for the characters and a auto props rig tool for the project props assets.
  - Created several modeling checking tools to keep quality standars
  
  Burny the Little Dragon:
  - Rigging sup.
  - Create all characters rig for the trailer.
  - Lookdev supervisor
  - Created all shaders setup for the main characters.

• Rigging TD

  Cotoon

  September 2007 - May 2010

  Luke and Lucy: The Texas Rangers:
  - Created a facial system for animation dept. Then took the rigging leading to help animation dept. developing tools and fixing bugs.
  
  Taro et le démon du volcan (never released):
  - Rigging supervisor
  - Created all rigs for the project and developed all the animation tools linked to the rigs.
  - Developed an interactive GUI inside Maya using AdobeFlash
  
  Magic Crystal trailer:
  - Assets supervisor
  - We had to create in a week a trailer for the movie working in collaboration with Grid-Vfx
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  Rigging Lead

  Mikros Image

  July 2009 - January 2010

  Liège Area, Belgium

  Black Heaven feature film:
  - Worked as lead Character rigging and cloth simulation.
  - Developed a building generator for the city based on existing modeling assets.

• 3D Generalist

  de pinxi

  August 2006 - August 2007

  Worked in several real time 3D projects handling from modeling to rendering tasks.