Matthieu Molina

Matthieu Molina

Senior Lighting TD / 19 yrs

New Zealand

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Senior Look Development Artist

War Is Over! (2023)

Visual Effects Artist

Glass Onion (2022)

Visual Effects Artist

Eternals (2021)

Visual Effects Artist

The Suicide Squad (2021)

Visual Effects Artist

Black Widow (2021)

Visual Effects Artist

Gemini Man (2019)

Lighting Technical Director

Alita: Battle Angel (2019)

Lighting Technical Director

Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018)

Lighting Technical Director

War For The Planet Of The Apes (2017)

Lighting Technical Director

Spectral (2016)

Lighting Technical Director

The BFG (2016)

Lighting Technical Director

Alvin and The Chipmunks: The Road Chip (2015)

Lighting Technical Director

Furious 7 (2015)

Lighting TD

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)

Lighting Technical Director

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)

The LEGO Movie (2014)

Lighting TD

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)

Walking With Dinosaurs 3D (2013)

Lighting Artist

A monster in paris (2011)

Happy Feet Two (2011)

Lighting TD

Despicable Me (2010)

Visual Effects

Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (2009)

Digital Effects Artist

The Seven of Daran: Battle of Pareo Rock (2008)

Digital Effects Artist

Asterix at the Olympic Games (2008)

I am a self-taught artist and learned all my skills by working for a lot of different companies.
I adapt myself really quickly to all different pipelines and love to work in the busiest times of big productions.
Work History

  • Lighting TD

    Wētā FX

    June 2013 - Present

    The Hobbit: The desolation of Smaug
    Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

  • Senior Lighting TD

    Animal Logic

    September 2012 - June 2013

    Senior Lighting TD on "Walking with Dinosaurs"
    Key lighting on shot for the feature film "Lego the Movie"
    Renderman, Nuke

  • Senior Lighting TD

    Fuel VFX

    November 2011 - September 2012

    TD Lighting, Look Dev
    Commercial and feature film
    Maya, Renderman, Maxwell, MentalRay, Nuke

  • Senior Lighting TD

    Dr. D Studios

    May 2011 - November 2011

    Key Lighting and Look Dev
    Pre compositing.
    3Delight, Nuke

  • Supervisor, Senior Lighting TD

    One More Production

    September 2010 - May 2011

    3D Generalist,Tracking,Shading,Lighting,Rendering,Compositing
    Maya, Renderman, MentalRay, Nuke

  • Lighting TD and Senior Compositing

    Walking The Dog

    March 2010 - August 2010

    Lighting and Senior Compositing
    Dev tools for relighting with Nuke

  • Lighting TD

    Mac Guff

    2009 - 2010

    Lighting and rendering on the Movie "Despicable me"

  • Lighting TD

    Digital District

    June 2009 - July 2009

    Lighting and Rendering Maya Mental ray
    Commercial for Nina Ricci

  • Lighting TD, Tracking Rendering

    Hectic electric

    May 2009 - May 2009

    Shading design, Lighting and Rendering for a commercial "Danone indonesia"

  • Lighting TD & Tech Renderman

    Delapost Paris

    November 2008 - January 2009

    Installation pipeline Renderman, Creation of the Workflow for "Fur" Rendering, Design and creation of the Shader, Lighting, Rendering for the Commercial "Feu Vert".
    Pftrack, Maya, Renderman

  • Lighting TD

    Duboi

    July 2008 - September 2008

    Lighting and rendering for the movie
    "Underworld 3:Rise of the lycans"
    Maya, Renderman

  • Tracking Supervisor

    La generale de production

    May 2008 - May 2008

    Tracking for a commercial about "Vienne"
    Pftrack, Maya, MentalRay

  • Tracking Supervisor

    view paris

    April 2008 - April 2008

    Tracking cameras and Objects for the Sport+ jingle
    Pftrack, Maya

  • Lighting TD & Tech Renderman

    Delapost

    December 2007 - February 2008

    SAGIA
    Full 3D commercial
    Shading Lighting Rendering
    Maya, Renderman

  • Tracking Supervisor

    View

    October 2007 - November 2007

    Tracking Cameras and Objects for the Commercial
    "EuropaPlus"
    Pftrack, Maya

  • CG artist VFX and Tracking Supervisor

    Hectic electric paris

    October 2007 - November 2007

    Tracking for the video clip "Le manege"
    Pftrack, Maya

  • Lighting TD

    Hectic electric paris

    September 2007 - September 2007

    Shading Lighting Rendering
    "Fondation pour la recherche medicale"
    Maya, MentalRay

  • Lighting TD

    Duboi

    July 2007 - August 2007

    Rendering Mental ray and Renderman for the movie "Asterix at the Olympic Games"
    Maya, Renderman, MentalRay

  • Tracking Supervisor

    View

    June 2007 - June 2007

    Tracking for head replacement for a TV Jingle
    Pftrack, Maya

  • TD Lighting & Tracking Supervisor

    AVP Amsterdam

    January 2007 - June 2007

    Tracking and Rendering Fur With Renderman for movie "Seven of Daran"
    Pftrack, Maya, Renderman

  • CG artist VFX

    Hectic electric paris

    December 2006 - January 2007

    Pre production for a movie rendering using Renderman
    Maya, Renderman

  • CG artist VFX

    Hectic electric paris

    November 2006 - December 2006

    Rendering for TV jingle "Carambar and Malabar"
    Test Rendering for "Miko ola" Mental ray and Renderman
    Pre production for a Dutch movie (Fur Renderman)
    Pftrack, Maya, Renderman

  • Tracking Supervisor

    View

    October 2006 - November 2006

    Tracking for TV jingle
    Tracking for TV jingle "Planet no limit"(head replacement"
    Tracking for TV jingle "Aljawal"
    Clean footage for TV jingle
    Pftrack, Maya

  • CG artist VFX

    Eurolab 3D

    September 2006 - September 2006

    Clean footage and incrustation of CG elements
    Maya, Renderman

  • CG artist VFX

    Kracowska

    August 2006 - September 2006

    rendering TV jingle for Dutch TV
    Maya, MentalRay, Renderman

  • CG artist VFX

    Whang

    November 2005 - December 2005

    Modelling rendering for a video clip "Nadiya"

  • CG graphist Tracking

    View

    October 2005 - October 2005

    Tracking for a TV jingle "Mon chien fait la loi"

  • CG graphist

    Ubisoft

    2005 - September 2005

    Modelling, texturing and lighting environment for video games

  • CG graphist

    Ubisoft

    2004 - 2005

    Modelling, texturing and lighting environment for video games

  • CG graphist

    Babylon software

    2003 - 2004

    Modelling, texturing and lighting environment for video games

  • CG graphist

    Hydravision

    2003 - 2003

    Modelling, texturing and lighting environment for video games

  • CG graphist

    4X Technologies

    2001 - 2002

    Modelling, texturing and lighting environment for video games

  • CG graphist

    cryo networks

    2001 - 2001

    Modelling, texturing and lighting environment for video games

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