Michel Satorra

Work History

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  CFX Artist

  Double Negative

  November 2019 - Present

  Montreal, Canada Area

  Cloth, hair, muscles, fat and skin rigs and simulations - Ziva and Vellum solvers
  
  Tools development for Maya, Houdini and Linux - Python, PyQt and VEX
  
  Team training and wiki documentation for tools and how to build rigs.
  
  Shows:
  - Spy Kids: Armageddon
  - American Born Chinese
  - Tuesday
  - RRR
  - Brahmāstra
  - Rock Dog 2
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  Creature Effects Technical Director

  Framestore

  June 2017 - October 2019

  Région de Montréal, Canada

  Cloth, fur, muscles, flesh simulations - Qualoth, nCloth, Framestore's solver
  
  Tool dev - Python, PyQt
  
  Shows:
  - His Dark Material
  - Detective Pikachu
  - Christopher Robin
  - Deadpool 2
  - Mowgli
  - Paddington 2
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  Framestore

  May 2018 - September 2018

  

  

  

  

  

  
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  CFX Artist

  Illumination Mac Guff

  May 2016 - March 2017

  Paris

  Cloth, hair & fur simulations - nCloth, nHair
  
  Shows:
  - Despicable Me 3
  - Sing
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  Technical Artist

  Quantic Dream

  July 2012 - March 2016

  Paris Area, France

  Video game "Detroit: Become Human":
  - Havok rigs for hair and clothes real-time simulations.
  - Character body skinning.
  - Props creation with Marvelous Designer (pillows, sheets...).
  - Character's LOD management.
  - Convert melscripts to Python, tools scripting for LOD generation and simulations setups.
  - Skin/rig props.
  
  
  Video game "Beyond : Two Souls" :
  Setup Havok Cloth.
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  Quantic Dream

  July 2012 - August 2013

  

  
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  Compositing

  Mac Guff

  March 2012 - April 2012

  Compositing - After Effects
  - Advertisement "Coyote"
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  CFX Artist

  Illumination Mac Guff

  August 2011 - February 2012

  Paris, France
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  Illumination Mac Guff

  August 2011 - February 2012

  

  

  
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  Layout Artist

  Onyx Lux 3D

  August 2010 - August 2011

  Luxembourg

  Average of 40-60 shots over 50 episodes.
  - TV Serie "Little Nick" Season 2