Makoto Hatanaka

Crowd TD / 20 yrs

New Zealand

Movie (2025)

Motion Edit

Movie (2025)

crowd td

Movie (2022)

Crowd lead

Movie (2021)

Crowd Td

Feature Film (2019)

Crowd Td

Movie (2019)

Crowd TD

Movie (2018)

Crowd TD

Movie (2018)

Crowd Td

Movie (2018)

Crowd Td

Movie (2018)

Crowd Td

Movie (2017)

Digital Artist

Movie (2017)

Digital Artist

Movie (2017)

Digital Artist

Movie (2015)

Effects Technical Director

Movie (2015)

Crowd Td

Movie (2014)

Crowd Td

Movie (2013)

Crowd Td

Movie (2012)

Crowd Technical Director

Movie (2011)

Crowd Td

TV Series (2011)

Visual Effects

Movie (2010)

Digital Artist

Movie (2009)

Cgi Animator

Movie (2008)

Digital Artist

Work history

Crowd TD / Motion Simulation TD

Wētā FX

Aug 2017 - Aug 2025

8 yrs

Featherston

"Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes"

"Invasion"

"Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3"

"Avatar: The Way of Water"

"The Tomorrow War"

"The Suicide Squad"

"Game of thrones Season 8 Episode 3"

"Avengers: Endgame"

"Alita: Battle Angel"

"Mortal Engines"

"Avengers: Infinity War"

"Rampage"

"Maze Runner: The Death Cure"
Crowd TD / FX TD / Rigging TD / Generalist TD

Rising Sun Pictures

Sep 2014 - Aug 2017

2 yrs 11 mos

Adelaide

"Deadline Gallipoli" - Crowd - Soldiers.
Shot work

"Gods of Egypt" - Crowd - Citizens, birds and army.
Assets management, crowd pipeline, agent build, shot work.
taking over and additional R&D for crowd render with 3delight+houdini pipeline.
Massive procedural for mantra renderer by using FabricEngine.
Sim manipulator+Rib editor in Houdini+python.
Arnold crowd render implementation prototype.
Worked as Crowd Lead for second half of project.

FX work after Crowd.
Destruction, explosion, fireBeam.

"Game of thrones season 6" - Crowd - Citizens
Instant motion capture workflow by using Perception Neuron.
Motion edit in motionbuilder.
Crowd work by using Houdini crowd system.

FX work after Crowd.
Explosion and dust cloud.

"Logan" - Rigging
Helped rigging department. Human rig by using in-house builder, then customize per request.
Skinning work, simple car, prop rig setups.

"Thor Ragnarok" - Creature
Prop rig, animation tool dev, automated retarget motion capture data to production creature skeleton.

"R&D"
mocap+VR test.
VR story telling experience project start up. Setting up and thinking workflow of UE4.
Hardware benchmark test. CPU and Graphics card.
Photogrammetry full body scan experiment.
Crowd TD

Prime Focus World

Nov 2013 - Aug 2014

9 mos

London

Crowd work for "Hercules" battle sequence.
Phalanx style hoplite soldiers. Formation defending.
Problem solving and support.
Tool develop by Python and Fabric Splice (KL)

"Kingsman: The Secret Service" Crowd work.
FX TD

Method Studios

Apr 2013 - Aug 2013

4 mos

Sydney

Worked on "Mad Max - Fury Road" project.
Volume sim such as Ground dust, Dust devil and Wheel dust.
Generate assets and layout them in scene by Houdini.
Crowd TD / FX TD

Animal Logic

Jun 2012 - Feb 2013

8 mos

Sydney

Worked on "Walking with Dinosaurs 3D"
Tweak and add function to dinosaur agent brain. Specific actions on right frame to perform action procedurally. Re-layout in Maya.
Help for FX shots such as "snow", "bugs", "fog".
Crowd TD

Rising Sun Pictures

Nov 2011 - Feb 2012

3 mos

Adelaide

Crowd work for "The Hunger Games" mainly people at stadium mix of cheer, clap, ambient, walk and run motions. Used Massive Jet.
Develop tool that can list and manage scenes, set environment, load in Massive automatically.
Crowd TD / FX TD

Dr. D Studios

Apr 2011 - Oct 2011

6 mos

Worked on Happy feet two project.
Crowd layout by using in-house plug-in for Maya.
Develop python tool for operate crowd.
Generic bird simulation in Houdini
Snow splash and avalanche sim in Houdini
3D graphic designer

Freelance

Jun 2009 - Apr 2011

1 yr 10 mos

- 3D work as generalist and Massive TD for TV ad.
- IT and system management
3D generalist

Method Studios

Jul 2006 - May 2009

2 yrs 10 mos

Sydney

VFX work for TV commercial and Film as generalist.
From 2nd year, I satarted Massive to do crowd work.

-TVad
Coca Cola, McDonald's, TOYOTA, DYSON, Nestea, eBay, Heineken, Lenovo, Citroen
LG, SUMSUNG, Telstra, Channel 7, NAB, ANZ, SUNCORP, NRL, Nestle, Olay, KFC and more.

-Film
Daybreakers(2009)
Australia(2008)
Death Defying Acts(2007)
3D artist and IT general manager

Chitahantou.com

2005 - 2006

1 yr

3D still images for printing.
Established and managed web sites.
3D artist and Web coder

Ken's Design

2004 - 2005

1 yr

Modeled Character for amusement machine.
Shading, Lighting and Rendering for architecture images.
Built HTML and javascript for apartment web pages.
3D animator

Sim image

2003 - 2004

1 yr

Tokyo

Modeling creature for Game cinematic.
Layout and motion edit for TV animation series.

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