Nicholas Cross

Senior Lighting Artist with over 10 years’ experience in Visual Effects, including all areas of CG and compositing. Strong experience as a lead, and with mentoring other team members both artistically and technically.

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  Senior Lighting TD

  Industrial Light & Magic

  Nov 2020 - Nov 2023

  3 yrs

  Sydney

  

  

  

  

  

  
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  Senior Lighter

  Sony Pictures Imageworks

  Feb 2019 - Aug 2020

  1 yr 6 mos

  Vancouver
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  Senior Lighter

  Sony Pictures Imageworks

  Feb 2018 - Nov 2018

  9 mos

  
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  Senior Lighter

  Animal Logic

  Apr 2017 - Jan 2018

  9 mos

  
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  CG Lead

  Animal Logic

  Jun 2016 - Mar 2017

  9 mos

  

  
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  Senior Digital Artist (Lighting)

  Animal Logic

  Sep 2015 - Jun 2016

  9 mos
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  Lighting Artist

  Iloura

  Oct 2014 - Jul 2015

  9 mos

  • Gods of Egypt [2016]

  

• 3D Generalist / Compositor

  Kennedy Miller Mitchell

  Feb 2014 - Oct 2014

  8 mos

  • Mad Max: Fury Road [2015]

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  Digital Artist (Lighting)

  Animal Logic

  Jul 2013 - Dec 2013

  5 mos

  • The Lego Movie [2014]

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  3D Generalist (Lighting / Compositing)

  Luma Pictures

  Mar 2013 - Jun 2013

  3 mos

  • I, Frankenstein [2014]

  
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  Digital Artist (Lighting)

  Animal Logic

  Jan 2013 - Mar 2013

  2 mos

  • Walking With Dinosaurs [2013]

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  Lighting TD

  Wētā FX

  Sep 2012 - Nov 2012

  2 mos

  • The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey [2012]

  
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  3D Sequence Supervisor / Senior Lighter

  Fuel VFX

  Jan 2010 - Sep 2012

  2 yrs 8 mos

  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

  Mar 2006 - Dec 2009

  3 yrs 9 mos

  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’

  

  

  

• University of Technology, Sydney

  2005 - 2006

• University of Sydney

  2001 - 2003