Oliver Markowski

Work History

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  Head of 3D

  RISE | Visual Effects Studios

  May 2020 - Present

• Speaker

  ACM SIGGRAPH, FMX, VES, ANIMAGO

  September 2015 - Present

  SIGGRAPH 2019 Los Angeles - Houdini HIVE - "Texture bombing in Houdini"
  FMX 2019 - State of the industry panel
  SIGGRAPH 2018 - Vancouver - Houdini HIVE - "Does your modelling department suck?"
  SIGGRAPH 2018 - Vancouver -Cryptomatte BoF - "Advanced use-cases for cryptomatte"
  FMX 2018 - Houdini Day - "Procedural modelling and animation on Babylon Berlin"
  FMX 2018 - Houdini Day - "Using the new grain solver in MARVEL Studios Black Panther"
  FMX 2018 - State of the industry panel
  VES Megabrain Masterclass 2018 - "Advanced use-cases for psyops cryptomatte in VFX production"
  VES Megabrain Masterclass 2018 - "How to build a small scale, low-budget 3D face-scanner"
  FMX 2017 - State of the industry panel
  FMX 2016 - State of the industry panel
  animago 2015 - "cloudrendering for small studios and freelancers"
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  CG and Visual Effects Supervisor

  RISE | Visual Effects Studios

  August 2018 - May 2020

  Greater Munich Metropolitan Area

  I've been supervising DRAGONRIDER - the most ambitious German animated feature to date. I took over this project after asset build was at around 50% and led the team at RISE until final stereo delivery.
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  CG Supervisor

  RISE | Visual Effects Studios

  February 2017 - August 2018

  Munich Area, Germany
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  Freelance CG supervisor | VR developer | Senior lookdev & lighting TD

  Freelance

  March 2003 - December 2017

  Munich Area, Germany
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  freelance CG supervisor | senior shading & lighting TD | pyt

  full.blown.images

  July 2009 - December 2016

  I create high-end visual effects for commercials and film as well as state-of-the-art CGI for all leading companies in the automotive industry. I am also an experienced python/pyside developer within the cgi & vfx context.
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  senior lookdev & lighting TD - Katana - Arnold

  TRIXTER

  June 2016 - December 2016

  Munich Area, Germany

  Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.2
  Spider-Man: Homecoming
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  CG lead Stuttgart - freelance

  RISE | Visual Effects Studios

  October 2015 - February 2016

  Stuttgart Area, Germany

  Captain America: Civil War
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  senior lookdev & lighting TD

  Framestore

  September 2015 - October 2015

  London, United Kingdom

  James Bond: Spectre Title sequence - lookdev using Houdini, Arnold & Nuke
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  senior lookdev & lighting TD - Maya - Redshift

  Parasol Island

  July 2015 - September 2015

  TVC
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  senior lookdev & lighting TD - Houdini - Mantra

  RISE | Visual Effects Studios

  June 2015 - July 2015

  Berlin Area, Germany

  Captain America: Civil War

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
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  senior rendering TD - Houdini - Mantra

  BigHugFX

  May 2015 - June 2015

  Creed

  
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  senior lookdev & lighting TD - Maya - VRay

  Parasol Island

  January 2015 - January 2015

  I developed the look of two full cg environments which contained some funny 3d characters for a german TVC called LIDL Stikeez
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  CG consultant

  Topalsson GmbH & Co. KG

  May 2014 - December 2014

  Munich Area, Germany
• 

  senior lookdev & lighting TD

  TRIXTER

  May 2014 - July 2014

  Munich Area, Germany
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  freelance CG supervisor & lead pipeline TD

  Topalsson GmbH & Co. KG

  January 2012 - April 2014

  Munich Area, Germany
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  senior lookdev & lighting TD

  TRIXTER

  January 2014 - February 2014

  Munich Area, Germany
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  senior shading & lighting TD - freelancer

  Pixomondo

  October 2011 - December 2012

  Frankfurt Am Main Area, Germany
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  freelance cg supervisor & pipeline TD

  Mackevision

  January 2010 - June 2011

  Munich Area, Germany

  CG Supervisor, Pipeline TD and Team Lead of up to 10 maya and nuke artists...
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  senior shading, lighting & comp TD

  Parasol Island

  April 2008 - July 2009

• shading, lighting & comp TD

  VINX

  December 2006 - April 2009

• shading, lighting & fx TD

  suedlich-t

  November 2007 - February 2009

• shading, lighting & fx TD

  Elektrofilm

  November 2008 - December 2008

• sequence lead, shading, lighting & hair TD

  CA Scanline

  February 2006 - July 2007

• lead 3D artist

  abc digital

  May 2006 - October 2006

  Technical Lead 3D - Automotive Visualisation - Shading,Lighting,Rendering
  OnSet CGI Supervision in CapeTown

• shading & lighting artist

  a&m creative services

  September 2005 - December 2005

  Automotive Visualisation - Lighting & Shading
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  3D generalist

  Spirit Link

  2003 - 2005

  medical visualization for SIEMENS
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  3D generalist

  Spirit Link

  2003 - 2005

  medical visualization for SIEMENS