Roland Vallet

Work History

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  Animation mentor

  CG Spectrum College of Digital Art and Animation

  May 2020 - Present

• Homeschooling my children

  Enrolled with Willow Home Ed school board

  May 2019 - Present

  Homeschooling my eight and ten year old with Willow Home Ed as a school board.
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  Senior Cinematic Animator

  The Coalition Studio

  November 2022 - May 2024

  Remote

  Senior animator Maya/Unreal pipeline

• Lead Animator

  CareActR

  January 2022 - September 2022

  Remote

  Interactive animation - Houdini/Unreal pipeline
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  Course Developer

  Alberta University of the Arts

  January 2022 - April 2022

  Calgary, Alberta, Canada

  Developing content for the Storyboard and Animatics Online Course
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  Senior Animator

  Wētā FX

  May 2021 - January 2022
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  Senior Animator

  Endnight Games

  May 2020 - May 2021

  Senior animator - gameplay animation
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  Senior Animator

  Wētā FX

  August 2013 - May 2019

  Movies worked on include - Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes; The Hobbit: Battle Of Five Armies; Furious 7; Pete’s Dragon; Spectral; Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets; War for the Planet of the Apes; Justice League; and Avengers: Infinity Wars.
  
  ACHIEVEMENTS
  
  The movies I worked on received the following awards
  
  WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES - Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement for Character Animation in a Live Action Production, + VES award for Outstanding Animated Character in a Photo-real Feature
  DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES - Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement in Character Animation in a Live Action Production, + VES award for Outstanding Performance of an Animated Character in a Photo-real/Live Action Feature Motion Picture
  
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  Animator

  Wētā FX

  August 2010 - August 2013

  Movies worked on over this time included - The Adventures of Tintin; Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter; The Avengers; The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, and The Desolation of Smaug; Iron Man 3; The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.
  
  ACHIEVEMENTS
  
  The movies I worked on received the following awards
  
  TINTIN - Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature Film, + BAFTA for Best Animated Film
  THE HOBBIT, AN INCREDIBLE JOURNEY - Annie award for Outstanding Achievement in Character Animation in a Live Action Production
  THE HOBBIT, THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG - VES Award for Outstanding Animated Character in a Live Action Feature Motion Picture
  
  
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  Character Animator

  ImageMovers

  December 2008 - August 2010

  San Francisco Bay Area

  Responsible for designing motion for feature films as part of a large visual effects studio in
  California (40-50 animators and a wider studio team of up to 450 people).
  
  ACHIEVEMENTS
  
  Working on CG feature films: Mars Needs Moms, and Disney’s A Christmas Carol, with animation directed by Jennifer Emberly, Huck Wirtz, David Shirk and Keith Kellogg, I successfully attained credits in two feature films.
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  Character Animator

  Rainmaker Entertainment

  January 2008 - November 2008

  Vancouver, Canada Area

  Working as a Character Animator, I was part of a small team (20-30 animators) making DVD movies, including - Thumbelina, Jingle Cat (CG), and Barbie And The Diamond Castle with animation directed by Colin Adams, Oscar Lo, and Dave Tilgner. I earned credits on three Barbie DVD films.
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  Character Animator

  Vanguard Films & Animation

  March 2007 - October 2007

  British Columbia, Canada

  Worked on CG feature film, Space Chimps, with animation directed by Adam Wood.

• Character Animator

  3DSite: Living Pictures

  February 2006 - January 2007

  Real-time 3D animation using Houdini for Disneyworld’s Laugh Floor with animation directed by Rich Quade
  
  ACHIEVEMENTS
  
  THE LAUGH FLOOR - Visual Effects Society 2008 Nomination: Outstanding Visual Effect in a Special Venue Project
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  Software Engineer

  Siebel Systems

  March 2001 - August 2004

  San Mateo, California

  Building up a bank of extensive experience in object-oriented design and implementation, and a taste for process-oriented development, I started out in the Customisable Product
  Team (CPT) as a Software Engineer using C++ to develop a generic product configurator for a client, which integrated into an order management solution (A constraint-based system using ILOG libraries). In 2002, I moved into the Universal Application Network (UAN) Team where it was my role to review marketing requirements, design and create integration processes using Tibco, support quality engineering, optimize performances, design and create automated test processes that allowed Siebel to integrate itself easily with its competitors (mainly Oracle, SAP, and RosettaNet) using a hub-spoke model.
  
  ACHIEVEMENTS
  
  Listed as an inventor on two patents: 20070226707 and 20070208768 (https://patents.justia.com/inventor/roland-vallet)
  
  Designed and developed a product configurator using ILOG constraint-based engine. C++
  
  Siebel-wide Engineering Design Document Challenge winner. The contest's purpose was to encourage engineering to be more thorough during the design phase as well as to make documentation more readable. The award acknowledged that good design and documentation eventually lead to better software (the UAN configurable product, with which I won the challenge, had an exceptionally low number of bugs logged against it).
  
  Designed and developed integration applications. Tibco, Webmethod.
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  Software Engineer

  Schlumberger

  October 1999 - January 2001

  San Jose, California

  Schlumberger provides wireless systems based on Smart Card technology. I worked as a Software Engineer in the Integration Team where I designed and developed servers for wireless applications (such as wireless banking or trading).
  
  ACHIEVEMENTS
  
  Being selected to deliver demonstrations at the PCIA and JavaOne shows
  
  Successfully designing and developing wireless applications for cell phone sim card using Java, as well as designing, developing, and supporting servers for wireless applications using C++, ensuring the delivery of efficient, helpful on-site support to Schlumberger clients.