Matteo Caruso

Work History

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  Senior Ligher

  Axis Animation

  June 2023 - Present

  Glasgow

• Mila

  Mila

  November 2014 - Present

  Lead Lighter, Supervisor Scene finaling
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  Senior Lighting & Compositing Artist

  TRIXTER

  January 2022 - July 2023
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  Lighting TD

  RISE | Visual Effects Studios

  September 2022 - January 2023
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  Senior Lighting & Compositing Artist

  Skydance Animation

  July 2021 - December 2021
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  Mila

  Cinesite

  2015 - December 2020

  Lighting Supervisor remote crew
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  Lead lighter

  Rainbow CGI

  July 2019 - January 2020

  Rome, GA

• CG Coordinator

  IED European Design Institute

  July 2017 - September 2019

  via Alcamo 11 00182 Rome Italy
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  lighter/compositor

  MilaFilm

  February 2018 - June 2018

  Rome, Italy

  
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  Lighter

  Illumination Mac Guff

  2017 - 2017

  Paris 15, Île-de-France, France

  Despicable me 3
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  3d lighter

  Illumination Mac Guff

  March 2016 - August 2016

  Paris, France

  Shot lighter responsable for synch keylight, trouble shouting, render layers and render optimization. Pre-comp as well.

  

  
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  Mid Lighter

  Illumination Mac Guff

  2016 - 2016

  Parigi, Francia

  Sing
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  Teacher

  Rainbow S.p.A.

  November 2015 - December 2015

  Roma, Italia

  Arnold workshop

• 3D Artist - Lighter and Generalist

  Visual Center

  April 2015 - May 2015

  Ascona Switzerland

  My tasks it's about differents ADV works. I work as 3D modelling, lighting and shading.

• Teaching

  IED European Design Institute

  October 2014 - 2015

  via Alcamo 11 00182 Rome Italy

  Modelling, UV, Dynamics, base Rigging in Maya.
  
  I’m teacher for different specialization courses, as "modelling and dynamics". My tasks are also to supervise 3D special projects for external customers as Legambiente Spots and Movie Teaser for Italian's Theaters.

• Finalize scenes - Film “The Infectious Immagination of Henry Bramble”

  Wham Bam Production

  June 2014 - July 2014

  44 Lancaster Gate Suite 420 London W2 3NA

  My Tasks was to fix many problems on different scenes, like: lights, animations problems, displacement problems, skinning problems, rigging problems and to check sculpting.

• 3D Generalist - Italian Film Trailer

  Private Client

  June 2014 - June 2014

  Roma, Italia

  My Tasks was to project some fire footage into a 3D scene in 3D Max.

• Workshop on Arnold renderer

  Quasar

  June 2014 - June 2014

  Viale Nizza, Roma

  Workshop was focused on the great features of Arnold on Maya.
  I introduced the differents aspects of Arnold compared to Mental Ray.