Neville Freitas

Work History

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  Senior Lighting Technical Director

  Industrial Light & Magic

  September 2021 - Present

  • Avatar 2 : The Way of Water (2022)
  • Mission Impossible 7 (2023)
  • Gladiator II (2024)
  • The Marvels (2023)
  • A Quiet Place: Day One (2024)
  • Life on Our Planet (2023)
  • The Boys (Season 2) (2020)
  • The Stand (2020)
  • The Mandalorian (2019)
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  Lighting Technical Director

  Industrial Light & Magic

  June 2019 - October 2021

  London, United Kingdom

  Lighting & LookDev with Katana, Renderman & ILM's proprietary tools.
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  Key Lighting Technical Director

  MPC

  October 2018 - June 2019

  London, United Kingdom

  Setting up & lighting sequences using Katana and Renderman with MPC’s inhouse tools.
  
  • The Lion King (2019)
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  Lead Lighting Technical Director

  Double Negative

  March 2017 - October 2018

  London, United Kingdom

  Sequence and shot lighting along with setups using Clarisse & DNEG’s proprietary tools.
  
  • The Kid Who Would Be King (2019) (Sequence Lead)
  • Pacific Rim 2 (2018)
  • Justice League (2017)
  • Wonder Woman (2017)
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  Lighting Technical Director

  MPC

  July 2016 - February 2017

  London, United Kingdom

  Katana & Renderman and MPCs proprietary tools.
  
  • Transformers 5 - The Last Knight (2017)
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017)
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  Environments Technical Director

  Double Negative

  March 2016 - July 2016

  London, United Kingdom

  Primary role of a Lighting TD
  
  - Shot lighting using Double Negative's Clarisse Renderer across different sequences.
  - Setting up Lightrig's and Render optimisation for shots.
  - Lookdev inside Clarrise.
  - Assembling appropriate AOVS and Render passes for Compositing.
  
  Shows :-
  
  • Star Trek : Beyond (2016)
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  3D Generalist

  Automatik VFX

  January 2015 - March 2016

  London, United Kingdom

  My current role covers 3D Environments, Texturing, Lookdev/ Lighting & DMP which includes :
  
  - Assembling and Layout of CG cameras. Solving spherical and anamorphic distortion issues. Building and lining-up set geometry to appropriate world scales for camera lineup & layout.
  
  - Environment and Props Modelling/Retoplogizing/UVing using Maya, Headus UV Layout.
  
  - Texturing assets using MARI, Generating appropriate maps for Lookdev.
  
  - Using Agisoft Photoscan & traditional photogrammetry to reconstruct & build CG environments for Digital Matte Painting/CG/2D using onset photography. Texture extraction and cleanup for re-projection in Nuke.
  
  - Lookdev/Shader Setup and Texture assembly in Arnold.
  
  - Shot-lighting using SolidAngle Arnold. Setting up appropriate AOVs required by 2D.
  
  - Using SpeedTree to create vegetation to populate Environments.
  
  - Stitching HDR panoramas using PT GUI from bracketed photography. Artifact and rig cleanup in Nuke.
  
  Shows :-
  
  • She Who Brings Gifts (2016)
  • Revolt (2016)
  • The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016) (On Set)
  • Other Side of The Door (2016)
  • Collide (2015)

  

  

  

  
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  Matchmove & Layout Lead

  Prime Focus World

  April 2011 - January 2015

  London, United Kingdom

  Thorough knowledge of the overall stereoscopic matchmove pipeline :-
  
  - Assembling and troubleshooting CG cameras & scenes.
  
  - Liaising with heads of departments and problem solving potential issues, asset generation for matchmove, rigging and caching roto-animation and cameras.
  
  - Using Agisoft Photoscan to build environments to be passed onto DMP using onset photography.
  
  - Working closely with Pipeline TD's to build newer and more robust tools.
  
  
  Overseas Training :
  
  - Travelling to overseas sites and help setting up and training the department on the tools and workflows.
  
  - Quality controlling, tasking, remotely-handling and overseeing progress of the overseas outsourced work coming back into the pipeline.
  
  
  On-Set Matchmove Lead :
  
  Primarily at Pinewood Studios, Liaising with the VFX Supervisor & leading the tracking team, gathering vital information (bracketed reference photography for modeling, HDRI's for set reconstruction and set measurements, building 3D Equalizer & Maya masterscenes which then gets referenced by all the artists to solve shots.
  
  Shows :-
  
  • Tarzan (Company Pitch) (2016) (Lead/On-Set Matchmover)
  • Kingsman : The Secret Service (2015) (Lead/On-Set Matchmover)
  • Vampire Academy (2014) (Lead/On-Set Matchmover)
  • Hercules (2014)
  • The Great Gatsby (2013) (Lead)
  • White House Down (2013) (Co-Lead/Assetts Artist)
  • Mr Stink (2012) (Lead/On-Set Matchmover)
  • Black Sky (2013)
  • Two Faces of January (2013)
  • Resident Evil 5 : Retribution (2012)
  • Total Recall (2012)
  • Men In Black III (2012)
  • Mirror Mirror : Snow White (2012)
  • Dredd 3D (2011)
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  Stereoscopic Matchmove Artist

  Cinesite

  December 2010 - April 2011

  London, United Kingdom

  Mono and Stereoscopic tracking, Rigid & Object tracks, dealing with Anamorphic lenses, oversan and distortion issues. Experience in using survey data, 3D Equalizer masterscenes and LIDAR scans for lineup in Maya.
  
  Shows :-
  
  • John Carter of Mars (2012)
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
  • X-Men: First Class (2011)

  

  

  
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  Senior Lighting Technical Director

  Industrial Light & Magic

  May 2019 - December 2025