John Martin

Work History

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  Rigging Supervisor

  Flying Bark Productions

  January 2021 - Present

  What If project
  Remote work , Asset production , tool dev , bug fixes , team management , troubleshooting and solution finding .
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  Senior Rigging Artist

  Flying Bark Productions

  July 2020 - December 2020

  Mia and Me Movie project , helping out the asset production .
  Remote work , tool dev and bug fixes .
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  Rigging Supervisor

  Flying Bark Productions

  April 2019 - September 2019

  Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

  Maya the Bee : The Golden Orb
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  Senior Rigging / Character FX TD

  EIGHTY4

  February 2019 - April 2019

  Wellington, New Zealand
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  Senior Character TD

  EIGHTY4 TV

  March 2019 - April 2019

  Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

• Creature TD

  Nyuk-Nyuk Studio

  July 2018 - January 2019

  Wellington, New Zealand

  Rigging , pipeline dev .
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  CG Supervisor

  Pukeko Pictures LP

  June 2018 - August 2018

  Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

  Pre-production of in-house show
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  Senior Character TD

  Pukeko Pictures LP

  April 2018 - May 2018

  Wellingon

  Pre-production of in-house show

• Asset Supervisor

  Stirling Road Productions

  January 2017 - February 2018

  Wellington, New Zealand

• asset artist

  Stirling Road Productions

  October 2016 - December 2016

• Freelance 3D Artist

  EYE BOP LIMITED

  July 2015 - November 2015

  Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

  Consulting , building 3D Assets , testing .
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  Senior Cloth TD

  Rising Sun Pictures

  January 2015 - May 2015

  Adelaide, Australia

  

  

  
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  Creature TD

  Wētā FX

  June 2010 - September 2014

  Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

  Feature Movies :
  - The Hobbit : The Battle of the five Armies
  - Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
  - The Hobbit : The Desolation of Smaug
  - Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
  - The Hobbit : An Unexpected Journey
  - Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter
  - The Adventures of Tintin
  - Rise of the Planet of the Apes
  - Xmen : First Class
  
  Worked in the Creatures department focusing on Digital Doubles and assets :
  - Cloth Simulations using nCloth
  - Hair Dynamics using in house software .
  - Props rigging and maintenance
  - Cloth modelling
  - Tools and pipeline dev ( Python , Mel )
  - Bug tracking and fixes .
  - Shot work

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
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  Character Fx TD

  Animal Logic

  October 2009 - April 2010

  Sydney, Australia

  Feature movie : "Legend of the Guardians"
  
  Worked in the Char Fx team , on feather secondary animation . Reported directly to the RnD guys , for features or bug tracking .
  - Tool development for rendering and workflow speedup ( Mel Scripts )
  - Shot work and fixes

  
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  Creature TD

  Framestore

  June 2009 - August 2009

  London, United Kingdom

  Feature Movies : "Prince of Persia , Clash of the Titans"
  
  Worked in the rigging team focusing on deformations .
  - doing a bit of development tools
  - prototyped a modular workflow for deformations
  - doing research for cloth simulation

  

  

• CGI Supervisor / Freelance CG Artist

  Cartoon Network development studio

  February 2009 - May 2009

  London, United Kingdom

  In House Project : "Cosmo"
  
  Worked on a full CG project trailer , within a team of 5 Artists .
  Supervised the technical part of the project , doing multiple tasks :
  - Pipeline and tools development
  - Character modeling
  - Character rigging
  - Texturing
  - Research
  - Bug tracking
  - Rendering
  
  https://vimeo.com/23755553
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  Cloth TD

  Framestore

  September 2007 - October 2008

  London, United Kingdom

  Feature Movie : "The Tale of Despereaux"
  
  - Pipeline and tools development
  - Cloth rigging and modelling.
  - Shot simulations ( fix and tracking animation issues )

  
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  Lead Character TD ( Supervising position )

  nWave Digital

  February 2007 - September 2007

  Feature Movie : "Fly Me to the Moon "
  In house Project : " Journey to the center of the Earth "
  
  Supervising the Rigging and Finalling department
  - Managing schedules and assets
  - Managing team ressources
  - Pipeline and tools dev

  
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  Junior Rigger / Character TD

  nWave Digital

  October 2005 - February 2007

  Brussels, Belgium

  Feature Movie : "Fly Me to the Moon "
  Worked in the character rigging deparment and shot finalling
  - Character rigging ( Hero and crowds )
  - Tools development
  - Sanity check of animation files for finalling / geo caching .
  - Pipeline fixes .