Robert Ward

Work History

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  Senior Generalist

  Industrial Light & Magic

  September 2014 - Present

  San Francisco Bay Area

• Pipayo

  July 2013 - Present
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  Self Employed

  Freelance

  January 2013 - August 2014
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  CG Supervisor

  Pixomondo

  January 2011 - December 2013

  Santa Monica, CA

  Lead 3d department
  + Digital Double work and LnR

  

  
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  CG Supervisor

  Pixomondo

  January 2011 - December 2012
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  Generalist/ team lead/ sequence lead

  Frantic Films

  June 2005 - January 2011

  Hollywood, CA

  (Frantic bought by Prime Focus VFX around 2009)
  
  Superman Returns (Lead Modeler, designed Krypton city and other environs)
  
  Magorium's Wonder Emporium (Virtual sets and extensions, Lighting and Rendering)
  
  GI Joe (Lead character artist, lead virtual environment artist)
  
  Tree of Life (Lighting and Rendering, creature shaders)
  
  Avatar (Digital doubles (for tarmac scene), Vehicle and props shading and lighting)
  
  A-Team (Character lead)
  
  Suckerpunch (Sequence lead- repeated transitions from live plates to digital doubles and back)
  
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  Visual Effects

  Prime Focus World

  June 2005 - 2011
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  Vfx artist

  Prime Focus World

  2005 - 2009
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  Senior 3d artist

  Prime Focus World

  2005 - 2009

• Independent Contractor

  Consultant and Contractor

  April 2001 - June 2005

  Various projects for National Geographic Television, Electronic Arts, Stereoscopic films for a Theme park in China, Mattel, ICT (Institute for Creative Technologies), Live Bait Productions, and a number of longer term lead-jobs for clients getting character-based animation projects off the ground.

• Animator/ Character Modeler

  Foundation Imaging

  April 1999 - May 2001

  Character animation. Lip sync. Directed motion capture artists on stage for action/acting shots. Scene layout. LnR.
  
  Character modeling/texturing/shading/rigging.
  
  Projects included the animated Starship Troopers television show, game cinematics for Twisted Metal Black, Max Steele, Characters for Nokia, Dan Dare, and character tests for Star Trek Voyager.

• Character modeler

  Netter Digital

  July 2000 - October 2000

  Modeled, textured and shaded mainly characters for animated television shows, but also creatures, props, sets, etc. Also a bit of work on the Dune miniseries.