Jean-Baptiste Verdier

Work History

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  Digital Matte Painter - Environment Artist

  Wētā FX

  February 2014 - Present

  • The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (Extended Edition)
  • Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
  • The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies

  

• Digital Matte Painter

  Pacific Renaissance Spartacus

  March 2012 - February 2013

  Season 3: Spartacus - War of the Damned
  
  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1442449/
  
  • Look Development
  • Matte Paintings
  • Vue Expert
  
  Building 3D scenes for 360 degrees environments and matte paintings based on those renders.
  Matte painting projection setups in Nuke (The environment design is done in Maya, then objects, lights, and camera are synchronised in Vue. From the Vue render, I created the matte paintings and I re-projected them from the synchronised camera and on the low poly geometry in Nuke)

• Digital Matte Painter

  Pacific Renaissance Spartacus

  August 2011 - March 2012

  Season 2: Spartacus - Vengeance
  
  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1442449/
  
  • Look Development
  • Matte Paintings
  • Vue Expert
  • Python scripting in Nuke for improving productivity in the packaging process for compositing
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  Digital Matte Painter - Vue Artist

  La Maison

  March 2011 - May 2011

  Feature film: "Upside down" Juan Diego Solanas
  Starring Kirsten Dunst and Jim Sturgess
  
  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1374992/
  
  • Matte Paintings
  • Vue Expert
  
  For this production I created a collection of night and early morning futuristic cityscapes from helicopter altitude. Cities were generated in Houdini and several passes were exported as a base for each point of view.
  I worked on some python scripts to improve the productivity and the management of the shared assets and textures between Vue and the main 3D applications.
  I also worked on an animated

• Digital Matte Painter - Vue Artist

  USC/Legend of Arad

  May 2010 - March 2011

• Digital Matte Painter - Environment Artist

  Freelance

  July 2009 - March 2011
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  Multimedia Engineer

  E-on Software

  May 2006 - March 2011