Lorenzo Angeli

Work History

• Director / Developer

  Efesto Lab LTD

  August 2014 - Present

  www.Efestolab.uk
  Bespoke pipeline solutions and third party software integration for vfx and feature animation productions.
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  Lead Pipeline Developer

  MPC

  April 2013 - August 2014

  Maintaining legacy code, and management.

• external development contractor

  Post-republic

  2014 - 2014

  Ftrack's pipeline integration and custom development.
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  Senior Pipeline Developer

  Reliance MediaWorks

  October 2011 - March 2013

  Pipeline Developer for core and show tools for multi site asset system, in distributed agile team.
  
  - Development , documentation and maintenance of asset system API.
  - Development , documentation and maintenance of pipeline base tools for software management.
  - Development and maintenance of Qt/Web based application for asset system, and proprietary tools.
  - Development and Integration of asset system in major applications (Nuke/Maya).
  - Integrations of core libraries for pipeline integration with major application (Qt, Python, PySide, etc..).
  - Development and maintenance of internal web tools for image processing and storage.
  - Development and integration of pipeline tools with shotgun.
  - Research and Development on NoSql solutions for cloud asset system.
  - Research end integration of open source solutions.
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  PipelineTd

  Framestore

  April 2009 - September 2011

  Wrath of titans::
  Lead show pipeline Td
  
  Jonny English 2 :
  Show Pipeline Support
  
  War Horse ::
  Leading and looking after the project, developing tools to help artists in their daily works.
  
  Your Highness ::
  Leading and looking after the project, developing tools to help artists in their daily works.
  VFx "Assetization" and development.
  
  Avatar ::
  Handled the development of the Quality Control Render System
  Tool development and pipeline extension
  
  Prince Of Persia Sand Of Time ::
  Helped out to render the internal cache for the sand room shots

  

  

  
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  sr.Pipeline TD

  Rainbow CGI

  January 2008 - May 2009

  For the second movie , created new , and more robust workflow with python , ported old ( but useful ) tools , from mel to python.
  created a wrap method to make aviables python commands to mel .
  Start a primitive versioning and traking of tasks ( without database ).
  Rewrite the Rig system with python , to modularize and proceduralize it.Start creating an abstraction layer to the software to make the whole pipeline, platform and software indipendent.
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  Pipeline , Visual Fx TD

  Rainbow CGI

  January 2007 - December 2007

  Pipeline:
  Create and develop and manage pipeline for the first movie,
  winx, developing basic tools for content management and workflow for all proces , within maya with mel.
  
  VFx:
  Create tools and Vfx shots for 2 of the 6 winx main transformations, (stella and layla)

• Generalist Td , R&D

  Toposodo

  October 2005 - February 2006

  Extend the open source lipsync software papagayo , to make it aviable to export files to xsi,max and maya.

• Generalist Td

  Cartoon ONE

  2006 - 2006

  Created basic content to contain a speedup short animation production .Develope a simple content management to manage it.All scripted with mel.Worked on shading , and lighting dept and support with various script , to simplify tasks.

• Animator

  Fulmini e Leopardi

  2005 - 2006

  For a French animated serie, key by key until the end...
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  Maya Teacher (base and advanced)

  Scuola Internazionale di Comics

  2005 - 2006

  driven the classes from zero to a small production , following all the steps needed in a animation production .

• 3d artist

  kmZero

  2005 - 2006

  video graphic for commercials and 3d generalist

• Vfx Td

  Bottega Cinema

  2005 - 2005

  Vfx for Varius Commercials for TV.

• generalist Td

  lcd Intermedia Agency

  2000 - 2003

  Started as 3d generalist , and continued as TD , for the Opopomoz movie, developing a really basic shots manager , and vfx tools , for the movie.

• 3D Designer

  Video One

  2000 - 2000

  motion graphic and 3d generalist