Nicholas Cross

Work History

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  Senior Lighting TD

  Industrial Light & Magic

  November 2020 - November 2023

  Sydney, Australia
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  Senior Lighter

  Sony Pictures Imageworks

  February 2019 - August 2020

  Vancouver, Canada
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  Senior Lighter

  Sony Pictures Imageworks

  February 2018 - November 2018
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  Senior Lighter

  Animal Logic

  April 2017 - January 2018

  
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  CG Lead

  Animal Logic

  June 2016 - March 2017

  

  
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  Senior Digital Artist (Lighting)

  Animal Logic

  September 2015 - June 2016
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  Lighting Artist

  Iloura

  October 2014 - July 2015

  • Gods of Egypt [2016]

  

• 3D Generalist / Compositor

  Kennedy Miller Mitchell

  February 2014 - October 2014

  • Mad Max: Fury Road [2015]
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  Digital Artist (Lighting)

  Animal Logic

  July 2013 - December 2013

  • The Lego Movie [2014]
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  3D Generalist (Lighting / Compositing)

  Luma Pictures

  March 2013 - June 2013

  • I, Frankenstein [2014]

  
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  Digital Artist (Lighting)

  Animal Logic

  January 2013 - March 2013

  • Walking With Dinosaurs [2013]
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  Lighting TD

  Wētā FX

  September 2012 - November 2012

  • The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey [2012]

  
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  3D Sequence Supervisor / Senior Lighter

  Fuel VFX

  January 2010 - September 2012

  Notable Film Projects:
  
  • Prometheus [2012] (3D sequence supervisor / Lighting Lead)
  • Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol [2011] (lighting / surfacing)
  • Iron Man 2 [2010] (lighting / surfacing / texturing)
  
  Notable TVC Projects:
  
  • Lexus ‘A Beautiful Contradiction’
  • GE ‘Two Letters’
  • Gucci Guilty
  • V8 Supercars (3D Lead)

  
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  3D Generalist

  Fuel VFX

  March 2006 - December 2009

  Notable Film Projects:
  
  • Australia [2008] (lighting / surfacing / texturing)
  • Bedtime Stories [2008] (lighting / surfacing / animation)
  • Rogue [2007] (modeling / texturing / animation / lighting)
  
  Notable TVC Projects:
  
  • Worksafe Victoria ‘Skeletons’ (3D Lead)
  • Lexus ‘Left to Right’
  • Leggo’s ‘Rhapsody in Red’
  • Natural Gas ‘Balloons’
  • NSW Cancer Council
  • Wrigley’s ‘Blast’, ‘Head & Tail’, ‘Tab’
  • Optus ‘Racooni Brothers’, ‘Clocks’, ‘Moi’
  • Johnny Walker ‘Invisible Man’