Jérôme Drese

Jérôme Drese

Rigging TD

Rigging Artist / 19 yrs

Brussels, Belgium

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Pipeline TD

Chickenhare and the Hamster of Darkness (2022)

Character Rigging

Icarus (2022)

Head Of Rigging

The Ogglies (2021)

Rigging supervisor

The Queen's Corgi (2020)

Rigging Supervisor

The Son of Bigfoot (2018)

TD

Asterix and Obelix: Mansion of the Gods (2017)

Rigging Supervisor

The Wild Life (2016)

Rigging TD

Thunder and the House of Magic (2015)

Lead Rigger

Black Heaven (2010)

Rigging Lead

Luke and Lucy: The Texas Rangers (2009)

For 11 years I have been working in different productions and companies doing rigging on a variety of different working environments, project budgets and team sizes.
Work History

  • Grid VFX

    May 2018 - May 2019

  • Rigging Supervisor

    nWave Digital

    August 2013 - April 2018

    Supervising the rigging team on the upcoming features films.

  • Character TD

    nWave Digital

    January 2013 - August 2013

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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.

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Education

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer ScienceBachelor's degree, Computer Scien

    Haute École Albert Jacquard (HEAJ)

    2003 - 2006