Oliver Summa

Work History

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  VFX supervisor

  Studio Isar Animation GmbH

  May 2024 - Present

  Munich
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  Lighting/Lookdev Supervisor

  Studio Isar Animation GmbH

  May 2022 - Present

  Munich, Germany
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  Lighting/Lookdev Supervisor

  Studio Isar Animation

  May 2020 - April 2022

  München, Germany
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  Lighting/Lookdev Lead

  Studio Isar Animation GmbH

  April 2019 - April 2020

  Munich Area, Germany
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  Senior/Lead Lighting TD

  Industrial Light & Magic

  September 2018 - April 2019

  London, United Kingdom
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  Senior Lighting TD

  Industrial Light & Magic

  January 2016 - April 2019

  London, United Kingdom

  Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) Lighting TD at ILM
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  • shot lighting and rendering with Katana, Renderman, Nuke and proprietary tools
  • special: helped lock down the look on K-2SO eye lights
  
  
  Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the shadows (2016) Lighting TD at ILM
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  • shot lighting and rendering with Katana, Renderman, Nuke and proprietary tools
  • special: setup lightrig for 3 sequences

  

  
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  Lighting TD

  Industrial Light & Magic

  February 2018 - April 2018

  London

  Dollface (2019) Lighting TD at ILM
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  • Lookdev on the cat face and glasses
  • Sequence light rig for bus shots
  
  Star Wars: The Mandalorian (2019) Lighting TD at ILM
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  • assisted TV team with transition to ILM VFX pipeline tools
  • shot lighting and rendering with Katana, Renderman, Nuke and proprietary tools
  • special: Baby "Yoda" Razorcrest cockpit lighting and lookdev in first production sequence
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  Lighting TD

  MPC

  December 2014 - December 2015

  London, Großbritannien

  The Jungle Book (2016) Lighting TD at MPC
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  • shot lighting, rendering and compositing with Katana 2.0, Renderman 20, Nuke and proprietary tools
  • important achievement: lighting realisation of the timelapse shots

  
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  Lighting and Compositing Artist

  Industrial Light & Magic

  September 2012 - October 2014

  Singapore

  Lighting and Compositing Artist at ILM Singapore
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  • shot lighting, rendering and compositing with Katana, Renderman, Nuke and proprietary tools
  • development of Python based tools for Katana
  • Macro creation for Katana and Nuke
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  Lighting and Compositing Artist

  Lucasfilm Animation

  March 2010 - September 2012

  Singapore

  Lighting and Compositing Artist on Clone Wars animated TV series:
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  • light production shots in Maya for characters and environments that met and enhanced the given art direction for the show
  • render shots with proprietary render manager 'Lobot' and in MentalRay and separate the shot into framebuffers and render passes
  • combine the render passes, framebuffers and FX-elements into a final composite tree in Nuke and/or Shake
  • add and track live 2d/3d FX-elements for a shot
  • test and develop new ideas and tools for the lighting department in Scriping languages Python and MEL
  • assist other team members in overcoming technical problems
  • look design for elements of the show in continuous communication with Supervisor and Leads
  • given presentation of the lighting pipeline for various departments
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  Assistant Technical Director

  Lucasfilm Animation

  June 2008 - February 2010

  Singapore

  Assistant Technical Director on Clone Wars the animated TV Series

  

• Studio Technician

  Bayerischer Rundfunk

  September 2007 - May 2008

  Nuremberg

  Responsible for live broadcast and broadcasting signal to other studios and on air. I also was handling 'on tape' play ins, analog and digital, in live shows. MAZ

• General technician (Dolly, Grip, Crane...)

  Bayerischer Rundfunk

  December 1996 - August 2007

  Nuremberg

  Was doing anything from stage work, assisting the lighting department with lights and grip, setting up and pushin the dolly and crane, plus assisting the camera with varios work on EB cameras (analog and digital)
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  Studio Isar Animation

  ? - Present
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  Industrial Light & Magic

  ? - Present