Louis Vottero

Work History

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  Asset Artist

  beloFX

  February 2022 - Present

  Montreal, Quebec, Canada

  Skills: Unreal Engine 5
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  Freelance Creature Technical Director

  Self Employed

  October 2012 - Present

  Toronto

  Worked with:
  Fin Design.
  Tendril Vfx.
  Arc Productions.
  Topix Fx to build muscle and skin rigs.
  House of Cool to build character rigs.
  Common Good to build character rigs.
  Optix Fx to design, model, rig, and animate.
  Industrial Brothers
  Chuck Gammage
  March Entertainment
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  Lead Creature TD

  Monsters Aliens Robots Zombies VFX

  May 2021 - February 2022
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  Rigging Lead and TD

  Monsters Aliens Robots Zombies VFX

  November 2020 - May 2021

  Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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  Rigging TD

  Squeeze Studio

  June 2020 - October 2020

  Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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  Lead Rigger

  Squeeze Studio

  August 2019 - June 2020

  Montreal, Canada Area
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  Rigging Supervisor

  Method Studios

  June 2019 - July 2019

  Montreal, Canada Area
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  Lead Rigger

  Method Studios

  December 2018 - June 2019

  Montreal, Quebec, Canada

  Workd On:
  Men in Black International
  My auto rig and setups played an important role in rigging digital doubles, creatures and facial setups.
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  Senior Rigger

  Method Studios

  July 2018 - December 2018

  Montreal, Quebec, Canada

  Worked On:
  OA
  Rim of the World
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  Character Technical Director

  Double Negative

  January 2018 - July 2018

  Montreal, Canada Area

  Worked on:
  Dead Pool 2 - Cloth simulation and shot sculpting
  Ant Man and the Wasp - hair posing
  The Kid Who Would be King - Cloth simulation
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  Asset Lead

  Sinking Ship Entertainment

  July 2016 - January 2018

  Toronto

  Using Deadline, Shotgun, Maya, Ziva, and Ffmpeg, created a checkpass/simulation worklow where animation publishes would generate alembic caches, simulate muscle, and render out the result in VRay. Also EXRs were converted to quicktime using ffmpeg and uploaded to shotgun automatically for review.
  Learned Ziva and built a muscle simulation on a trex.
  Modelled a Smilodon in Maya and Zbrush and created fur groom in Yeti.
  Worked with scan data to create a realistic human face rig.
  Wrote an occlusion tester for a lego short that would find internal polygons quickly.
  Maintained Vetala auto rig.
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  Character Technical Director

  Arc Productions

  August 2014 - July 2016

  Toronto, Canada Area
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  Technical Lead

  Sinking Ship Entertainment

  February 2014 - January 2015

  Toronto

  In charge of integrating Shotgun into the pipeline. Wrote a proprietary tool using pyside that works with layout, animation, lighting, and compositing. Streamlining their workflows with shotgun. The ui works stand alone with shotgun, or inside Maya and Nuke. Also setup the shogun event daemon to run pipeline processes when statuses are updated.
  
  Rigged a photo realistic pigeon. Rig included model edits and pose deformation to get a nice wing fold and neck deformation. Created a realistic groom with Yeti Maya plugin and setup the shaders.

• Supervising Creature Technical Director

  Beast House Fx

  April 2013 - February 2014

  Toronto
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  Rigging Supervisior and Character Technical Director

  Toon Box Entertainment

  February 2011 - October 2012

  In charge of establishing the character rigging pipeline using PyQt, batching, scripting, and Maya C++ API. Custom spline ik node that solves stretching and twisting issues used in production.
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  Lead Rigger

  March Entertainment

  March 2010 - February 2011

  In charge of scripting the rigs for the television production: Mia and Me. Also helped integrate hair dynamics and nCloth into the rigs.
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  Character Technical Director

  Starz Animation

  October 2008 - April 2010

  Created the auto rig for the production Gnomeo and Juliet.
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  Lead Character Technical Director, Modeler

  C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures

  December 2007 - October 2008

  In charge of rigging the characters for The Spine, and helping out to automate parts of the animation and nCloth pipeline. Also trained briefly with the Side Effects Houdini Software.

• Senior Modeler, Rigger, Technical Lead

  COREtoons

  July 2007 - December 2007

  Built auto rig to mimic built rigs. Scripted various tools for rigging.
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  Lead Modeler, Lead Rigger

  Starz Animation

  November 2006 - July 2007

  Fixed rig issues and shot problems coming from animation.

• Character Technical Director

  IDT Animation Toronto

  2004 - 2007

  Rig trouble shooting.