Luca Fiorentini

Work History

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  Senior Lighter

  Sony Pictures Imageworks

  October 2016 - October 2018

  Vancouver, Canada
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  Freelance

  July 2016 - September 2016
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  Senior Lighting Artist

  Illumination Mac Guff

  October 2014 - February 2016

  
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  Lighting TD

  Lucasfilm

  February 2014 - October 2014
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  Lead Lighting Artist

  Kandor Graphics

  July 2012 - March 2013

  Lead lighter on "Justin and the Knights of Valour", a stereoscopic 3d feature due to be released in 2013
  
  Responsibilities:
  Setup, lighting and precomp of medium and hard production shots, keyshots and master rigs for some sequences.
  Managing a team in between 2 and 6 people (depending on the sequence).
  I developed an automated system for setup and outputting separate passes for character’s eyes in Softimage (specular, env reection, fresnel, masks) and a Nuke gizmo to comp it back.
  I developed a shot review system inside Nuke. Artists and supervisors wer

  
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  Lead Lighting Artist

  The Monk Studio

  November 2011 - May 2012

  Lead lighter for an undisclosed series for Lucasfilm Animation.
  
  Responsibilities:
  Setup, lighting and compositing of medium and hard production shots, keyshots and master rig for some sequences.
  Managing a team in between 2 and 4 people (depending on the episode).
  Setting up the linear workow pipeline. I wrote a custom Mental Ray shader to take care of the colorspace conversion (rec709) of textures and swatches inside Maya.
  I developed a set of tools for Nuke (Python) to speed up the work process (Auto comp from several multilayer EXR, input switching)
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  Lead Lighting Artist

  CAOZ Ltd.

  March 2011 - September 2011

  Lead lighter on the movie “Legend of Valhalla: Thor”.
  Responsible for setup, optimization, lighting and precomp of medium and hard production shots, keyshots and master rig for some sequences.

• Lighting/shading/textures artist

  El viaje Imposible

  2009 - October 2010

  Character lighting, shading and texturing for the short movie “Blue & Malone”.

• 3D Generalist

  Granada Film Factory

  February 2010 - May 2010

  Character and Environment modeling, texturing, lighting and compositing for "Azahar" pre-production.

• 3D generalist

  Dujass Film SPA

  October 2007 - November 2008

  responsable of creature and character modeling, shading, lighting and fur

• 3D modeler / generalist

  Spark Digital Entertainment

  May 2005 - August 2007

  Responsable of the modeling and texturing for the project "Leo e Gebedia", both for the teaser trailer and for the short movie.

• 3D Modeler / Generalist

  Accademia Italiana Videogiochi

  September 2004 - March 2005

  I was responsable of the low poly modeling and animation for some internal projects

• 3D Modeler / Generalist

  Black Sheep Studios

  October 2003 - November 2004

  Responsable of the low poly modeling for the PC game "Il rosso e il nero".
  Responsable of the VFX for the film "Leone e Giampiero"

• System Administrator

  ByTech S.r.l.

  November 2002 - July 2004

  Responsable of hardware / software support