Stephen Mann

Stephen Mann

CG supervisor/character TD / Character TD

New York City, NY, United States

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Digital Artist

OLD (2021)

Visual Effects Artist

Servant (2019)

Visual Effects Artist

Evil (2019)

Visual Effects Artist

Luke Cage (2016)

CG Supervisor

The Get Down (2016)

CG Supervisor

Jessica Jones (2015)

CG Supervisor / CG Supervisor / CG Supervisor

Daredevil (2015)

CG Supervisor

Marco Polo (2014)

Lead Character Technical Director

One Rat Short (2006)

Character Rigging

Robots (2005)

Animator

The Search for Life: Are We Alone? (2002)

Digital Artist / Modeler

The One (2001)

Effects Animator

Corkscrew Hill (2001)

Digital Artist

X-Men (2000)

rigging/tech anm reel
2019
https://vimeo.com/user36775528
2018
https://vimeo.com/276495692


Work History

  • Lead Creature TD

    Method

    July 2021 - July 2022
    NYC

  • character TD

    Freelance

    January 2021 - April 2021

  • character TD

    Freelance

    August 2020 - August 2020
    WFH

  • Character Td / cg lead

    Framestore

    December 2018 - July 2019
    New York

  • CG Supervisor

    Nathan Love

    September 2017 - June 2018
    New York NY

  • Rigging TD

    Free Range Animation

    November 2016 - June 2017
    red bank NJ

  • Shade VFX

    July 2015 - October 2016

  • Lead Character TD

    Charlex

    November 2003 - June 2015

    Responsible for all character setup and pipeline within the 3D dept.

  • adjunct Professor

    NY School of Visual Arts

    September 2000 - June 2009

    Animation and Production Professor for the BFA computer animation Dept.
    Responsible for class creation and teaching, for production skills, and animation II.

  • CharacterTD

    Blue Sky Studios

    March 2003 - November 2004

    Responsible for rigging characters, props, sets and developing new methods of character creation for the motion picture "Robots".

  • Character TD

    American Museum of Natural History

    January 2003 - March 2003

    Responsible for the creation of several creations for the space show. Model, Rig, Animate, Texture.

  • Co-visual Fx supervisor

    Kleiser-Walczak

    November 2000 - October 2002

    Responsible for creating content for Theatrical Films, Ride Films, and Television commercials. This included planning, modeling, rigging, animation, fx, and sometimes texturing and lighting.
    Films:
    "X-men", "The One"
    Ride Films:
    "Santa Lights up NY" for Radio City Music Hall
    "Corkscrew Hill" for Busch Gardens Virginia

  • Cg Supervisor

    Hornet Inc.

    April 2002 - 2002

    Responsible for Bidding, Planning, and Creating Commercials, and sports oriented films.
    Also responsible for Managing artists, computer networks,and individual workstations.
    Of note were television commercials for Foot Joy, Sports Films for the NJ JETS FOOTBALL FRANCHISE, and Promotional images for RockStar games, 'Midnight Club"

  • SOST trainer

    Sony Pictures Imageworks

    January 1999 - November 1999

    Trained and aided artists for the production of Stuart Little. Maya beta - 1.0 All aspects.

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Education

  • University of Southern California (USC)

    1996 - 1999

  • University of Vermont

    1991 - 1995