Michael Scarpa

Michael Scarpa

Resourceful Techie

Senior Software Developer / Mid-level FX TD / 20 yrs

Wellington, New Zealand

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FX TD

Jupiter Ascending (2015)

FX TD

Transcendence (2014)

FX TD

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)

FX TD

Man of Steel (2013)

FX TD / Crowd TD

John Carter (2012)

Pipeline TD / RnD Software Developer

The Pirates! Band of misfits (2012)

I am an FX artist / RnD developer working in the film industry, and my goal is to bridge the gap between artistic creativity engineering ingenuity.
Work History

  • Motion Pipeline TD/Software Developer

    Wētā FX

    March 2015 - September 2015

  • FX TD

    Double Negative

    June 2011 - April 2014

    Crowds, RBD, cloth, fluids and procedural geometry as well as a bit of HDK work in Houdini.

  • Student VFX Professional

    Escape Studios

    February 2011 - May 2011

    Learning a range of VFX skills like tracking, advanced rendering, compositing and effects work.

  • Technical Director

    Aardman Animations

    July 2009 - January 2011

    R&D development and pipeline development.

  • Consultant Visualization

    SARA

    August 2007 - July 2009

    Accompanying clients throughout an entire project, implementing the requirements of the client, researching available tools and libraries to efficiently implement the requirements, maintaining visualization facilities like the SARA CAVE, maintaining in-house software packages and libraries.

  • PhD student

    University of Amsterdam

    May 2003 - July 2007

    Position as PhD Student at the University of Amsterdam, Faculty of Science, Informatics Institute, Section Computational Science, Scientific Visualization and Virtual Reality Group -- quit before promotion

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Education

  • College of Multimedia

    2008 - 2008

  • College of Multimedia

    2008 - 2008

  • Johannes Kepler Universität Linz

    1997 - 2003