Vincent Thomas

Vincent Thomas

Houdini Generalist For Game and Film

Lead Senior Houdini Creative Artist / Mid-level FX Artist / 22 yrs

Moving Everywhere

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Visual Effects Artist

The Foundation (2021)

Lead 3D Designer

Voyagers (2021)

Lighting & Rendering Artist

Paboos (2019)

Lead 3dDMP / Env

Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019)

Visual Effects Artist

Love, Death & Robots (2019)

Lead Lookdev Lighting

Maya the Bee: The Honey Games (2018)

Senior Lookdev / Lighting env

Along with The Gods (2017)

2d / 3d concept Artist

The Girl with All the Gifts (2017)

Senior Generalist Lighting Env / DMP and Concept

Warcraft: The Beginning (2016)

Head Of Lighting / Visual Effects Supervisor

Kainan 1890 (2015)

Creative CG / Lighting ads (2015)

Visual Effects Artist

The Expanse (2015)

Senior Environment Artist

Idealisten (2015)

Maya the Bee (2015)

VFX Art Director

8 Seconds (2015)

Creative VFX Art Supervison / Senior Mat

Jupiter Ascending (2015)

Artistic Director / Lead Digital Artist

Black Sails (2014)

Senior Lighting TD / Digital Matte Paint

Prometheus (2012)

Digital Matte Painter

The Hunger Games (2012)

Senior Matte Painter / Designer

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)

2D DMP

The Big Year (2011)

Environment Artist

Fast Five (2011)

digital matte painter

Tron: Legacy (2011)

Matte Painter & Digital Environment Artist

TRON: Legacy (2010)

Sequence Lead

My Own Love Song (2010)

CG Sequence Lead

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2010)

Lighting TD

Happy Feet (2006)

Animator

The Legend of Zorro (2005)

Animator

The Brothers Grimm (2005)

3D Lighting TD

King Kong (2005)

Digital Effects Artist

French Spies (2004)

Animator

The Cell (2000)

Lead Lookdev / Lighting

Maya the Bee : The Honey Games

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Houdini Generalist / Creative senior artist / Senior Env & Lighting since 1998

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Im a french artist , with a well rounded profil , senior VFX Artist with over 18 years of experience in the most respected studios [ Weta Digital, ILM, MPC, Digital Domain, Animal Logic, BUF, The Mill, RSP....) In these previous years, i occupied different positions, VFX Generalist, Lead or Senior Light (Weta or Animal Logic for example) or Matte Painter (MPC, RSP, Digital Domain..) and Creative conept for Visual Story Development. You could find all the details below, there are a lot to say, i have been working for a long time, will like to settle a little more actually.


( CV, Demo and breakdown, 2d/3d Concept Art and mattepaint examples, personal photography samples... )

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B_f7CMXktnTheHl0ZjRNeXJBV0k

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Work History

  • Creative Art Director & VFX Supervisor / Senior 3D Matte Painter & Des

    Freelance

    March 2014 - Present

    Please drop me a msg privately if you want to look at my latest work & Concept Art book
    If not this is my 2 years ago :

    https://www.stranger-than-paradise.book.fr

    Here's an edit of my video reel
    https://vimeo.com/61140530

    VFX Creative Art Supervision / Matte Painting Concept Art / Senior Lighting

    Clients:



    Clients
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    ~ Art Director & VFx Supervisor Consultant at ARTFX School

    ~ Art Director & Concept Design for the Game : The Forest

    ~ Warcraft ( Industrial Light & Magic ): Env Generalist / Concept and Matte Painting

    ~ Art Director Film Supervision : Film for JAPAN / SANSUNG / CherryCherry VFX

    ~ Art Director Sequence Supervision ( Digital District ) :
    * CARTIER & ROLLEX / Bruno Aveillan ( Odyssey Cartier, Commercials for Rolex)
    * JACK THE DREAMER - Short film Supervision by Bruno Aveillan

    ~ PERRIER ( Fleur & Manu ~ HotAirBallon) : Concept Artist - Matte Painter ( MPC )

    ~ BLACK SAILS (TV Serie) : Art Director Sequence Supervision (The Screen Scene, Dublin)
    & The Frankenstein Chronicles : Env / Matte Work

    ~ Concept Art for the next WACHOVSKIS'​ film : JUPITER ASCENDING ( One of Us , London )


    ~ BACON X Digital : Lead Art and Digimatte Painter feature film "IDEALISTEN"​
    ~ AUDI / Sehsucht / Director : Ole Peters (Hamburg)
    ~ BOURSORAMA / Digital District / Lionel Moujin ( Paris / Barcelona)
    ~ L'Oreal / Unified (Paris)
    ~ BMW / C4Artist / Director : Samuel Bayer (Los Angeles)
    ....

  • Creative VFX Art Supervison / Senior Matte Painter Concept / Lighting

    Freelance Artist

    October 2012 - Present

    Creative Art Direction / Concept Art / Design / Matte Painting

    Clients:

    ~ Concept Art for the next WACHOVSKIS' film : Jupiter Ascending ( One of Us , London )
    ~ Cartier & Rollex / Bruno Aveillan ( Odyssey, Jack The dreamer, Commercials for Rolex)
    ~ Bacon ‡ Bacon X Digital : Lead Art and Digimatte Painter for the feature film "Idealisten"
    ~ AUDI / Sehsucht / Director : Ole Peters (Hamburg)
    ~ BOURSORAMA / Digital District : Director : Lionel Moujin ( Paris / Barcelona)
    ~ L'Oreal / Unified (Paris)
    ~ BMW / C4Artist / Director : Samuel Bayer (Los Angeles)
    ....

  • Procedural World Design Architect / Lead technical artist (Houdini)

    Senior Houdini Technical Artist

    September 2022 - October 2024

  • Lead Houdini Procedural Artist / Unreal (undisclosed Project)

    March 2022 - August 2022
    Paris, Vietnam, LA

  • Houdini Lead for Env / Asset

    MPC EPISODIC

    December 2021 - March 2022
    London, United Kingdom

  • Lead Houdini Creative Artist

    Monsters Aliens Robots Zombies VFX

    September 2021 - December 2021
    Toronto, Canada (Remote)

  • Lead Houdini Artist -Env and Asset

    Rocket Science VFX

    January 2021 - August 2021
    Toronto, CA

  • Senior Houdini Env for Feature Film

    Outer Limits Post Production

    December 2020 - February 2021
    Houdini Env Work for Feature Film (UK Studio)

  • Houdini Procedural Artist and Lookdev

    Distillery VFX

    October 2020 - November 2020
    Remote for Vancouver, Death love And Robot Season

  • Senior Environement Artist

    TBA

    May 2020 - July 2020
    London

  • Lead 3d Designer (maya/houdini) / Lighting

    UPP

    October 2019 - January 2020
    Prague, Czech Republic

  • Lead Concept 3d Designer / Lead Env

    UPP

    September 2019 - November 2019
    Prague, Czech Republic

  • Co Lead 3dDMP / env

    Mill Film

    March 2019 - July 2019

    Maleficent 2

  • Mill Film

    ? - July 2019

  • Lead Env / DMP

    Mill Film

    April 2019 - July 2019
    Montreal, Canada

  • Sequence Lead : Lighting/ Matte Painting / 3d Visual research

    Pixomondo

    January 2019 - March 2019
    Germany

  • Games of Thrones (Senior Lead Lighting / Comp / Lookdev)

    September 2018 - November 2018
    London, United Kingdom

  • Environment Artist / Concept / Matte

    NOZON / VFX-3D Animation

    July 2018 - August 2018
    Brussels, Belgium

  • Lead creative Lookdev Lighting Dmp

    A Day like a Week

    July 2017 - April 2018

  • Lighter

    Goodbye Kansas

    March 2017 - May 2017

  • :eadSup Lookdev Lighting on a new Animated Feature Film

    M.A.R.K.13™

    January 2017 - March 2017

  • Lead Lookdev / Lighting

    Pixomondo

    October 2016 - December 2016

  • Lighting / Design / Matte

    PSA Peugeot Citroën

    September 2016 - September 2016

  • Concept Designer

    Glassworks

    July 2016 - July 2016

  • Lead CG Art / MattePainting/ Senior 3d Env

    SSVFX

    April 2016 - June 2016

  • Matte Painter & 3d Env

    Absolute Post London

    March 2016 - April 2016

  • Concept Designer

    Endnight Games

    November 2015 - February 2016

  • Senior CG Artist / DMP Env & Concept Art Artist

    Industrial Light & Magic

    October 2014 - September 2015

    Senior CG Artist / DigiMatte & Concept Artist
    Feature: Warcraft directed by Duncan Jones

  • Creative Art Director / VFX Supervisor / Senior 3D Matte Painter & Des

    Digital District

    September 2013 - September 2014
    Paris

    Working on 2 projets for Director Bruno Aveillan...
    https://youtu.be/yaBNjTtCxd4
    https://www.quad.fr/directors/bruno-aveillan/

  • VFX Supervisor / Senior 3D Matte Painter & Concept Art / Creative Art

    Mikros Image

    July 2013 - September 2013
    Paris Area, France

    Director / Art Director and Co Supervisor for a 1"30 film :
    "Devenez", Bouygues , London agency & DDB Paris

  • Designer / Concept Art Artist

    One Of Us

    April 2013 - April 2013
    London, United Kingdom

    ~ Concept Art for the next WACHOVSKIS' film : Jupiter Ascending
    Wedding Scene , Cathedrale in Cosmos

  • Project Lead ( Creative Art Director , Lighting , Mattepaint )

    Glassworks

    March 2012 - September 2012
    London, United Kingdom

    General Art Design Concept work, XSI / Zbrush, Arnold, Maya, Nuke
    Currently working for Daniel Kleinman as a freelance artist until 1st September

  • Senior Lighting TD / Digital Matte Painter

    Fuel VFX

    January 2012 - March 2012
    Sydney, Australia

    ~ Work on Prometheus, By Ridley Scott
    Lighting TD / Look Dev

  • Art Director & Senior DigiMatte Painter & 3D Concept Artist

    Rising Sun Pictures

    July 2011 - December 2011
    Adelaide, Australia

    The Hunger Games, Directed By Gary Ross ( & Steven Sodenberg)

  • Senior DigiMatte / 3D Concept Artist @ MPC Vancouver

    MPC

    November 2010 - July 2011
    Vancouver, Canada Area

    Position crossing different departments according to my experience as both a 3D Lighting TD, MattePainter and all around Artist...
    Projects: The Big Year, Fast&Furious; 5, Sherlock Holmes II
    Tools: Maya, Photoshop, Nuke , Mari, MentalRay, Custom MPC Tools, Renderman, Arnold

  • DigiMatte Paint / Texture / Lighting TD

    Digital Domain

    September 2010 - November 2010

    Tron Legacy, directed by Joseph Kosinski. (Vancouver)
    (Maya, Vray, Zbrush, Mari, Nuke)

  • Art Director for an undisclosed 35mm Short Film

    undisclosed studio

    July 2010 - August 2010

    A Short but interesting creative mission:
    - Pre-production Artworks : research and creation
    - Treatment authoring
    - Collaboration work

  • Creative Director / Colorist / 3DMatte Paint

    BaconX

    December 2009 - June 2010

    - Work with Directors: Martin De Thurah Martin Werner
    , Adam Hashemi , Lasse Martinussen, Jonas Arnby,
    / Kasper Wedenhahl ...
    - In the same time: Writer & Director on the Short film "Une Nuit pour t'aimer"

  • Writer & Director "One Night to Love you"

    Freelance

    September 2009 - December 2009

    Script Writting, Mood Board, Pre production painting & Photography, Casting...

  • Creature & Environment TD Design (September to 9 November 2009)

    Glassworks / GUINESS

    September 2009 - October 2009

    GUINNESS Ads Directed by Rory Kelleher , London
    ( Creature & Environment )

  • Freelance Artist / Photographer / Creative Director

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    June 2009 - September 2009

    Writting Screenplay Short films / Concept Art Design

  • Senior Artist

    Method Studios

    February 2009 - May 2009

    "My own Love Song", latest Olivier Dahan's feature film
    Lead CG on the Angels sequence (Maya)
    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1193507/

  • Sequence Lead on "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus"

    Peerless Camera

    March 2008 - December 2008

    "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" directed by TERRY GILLIAM, with Johnny Depp, Heath Ledger, Tom Wait, Colin Farrell, Jude Law, Christopher Plummer and Lily Cole (2009)
    Lead Sequence (1st Sequence of the film)

  • Senior CG Artist

    Glassworks

    December 2007 - January 2008

    GUINESS COMMERCIAL

  • Digital Artist (SONY PS3)

    THE MILL (New York)

    August 2007 - November 2007

    All around artist

  • Lead digital artist

    Passion Pictures

    July 2007 - August 2007

    Lead Digital Artist at Passion Pictures, Rockband Trailer for Harmonix (1m30sec HD trailer) directed by Pete Candeland.
    & Freelance Photographer / Director

  • 3D Artist / Supervisor

    Glassworks

    February 2007 - June 2007

    www.glassworks.co.uk

  • TD Lighting / Compositor

    Animal Logic

    March 2006 - September 2006

    - HAPPY FEET : Film directed by GEORGE MILLER (Warner Bros)

  • TD Lighting

    Wētā FX

    August 2005 - November 2005

    KING KONG directed by PETER JACKSON (Universal)
    / TD Lighting (Theatre and NY Sequence)

  • Senior TD Artist

    Peerless Camera

    January 2005 - August 2005

    * BROTHER GRIMS By TERRY GILLIAM (second year)
    * MASK OF ZORRO by MARTIN CAMPELL
    (Lighting/Texturing/Cloth Animation..)
    Trees and Roots Sequence, Horse shoot eating a little boy, Cloth inside the cave, Wolf..

  • 3D lead (Sony Commercial)

    Def2shoot

    October 2004 - January 2005

    SONY commercial Directed by PLEIX

  • CG Lead (Sony Ericsson)

    Def2shoot

    2005 - 2005

    Directing a small team on a Sony commercial for Collective directors Pleix

  • Senior TD lighting

    Peerless Camera

    February 2004 - August 2004

    -BROTHER GRIMS directed by TERRY GILLIAM

  • Sup TD Lighting

    La Maison (www.alamaison.fr)

    October 2003 - January 2004

    DOUBLE ZERO (Movie picture by GERARD PIREZ)
    Peugeot "Dreams" MATTHIJS VAN HEIJNINGEN

  • Digital Artist

    The Mill

    August 2003 - September 2003

    Honda commercial

  • Digital Artist

    Mac Guff

    December 2002 - June 2003

    NISSAN : Directed by NICOLAS BEYER
    PIMOUSSE: Directed by PIERRE COFFIN
    20min Film from Athen's Olympic Games Directed by COSTA GAVRAS

  • Animator / Sup TD Light

    La Maison (www.alamaison.fr)

    October 2002 - November 2002

    Gaz de France: Dolce Vita / Realisator: BRUNO AVEILLAN
    Estée Lauder / Realisator: STEPHANE SEDNAOUI

  • Digital Artist

    The Mill

    May 2002 - June 2002


    Director: RUPERT SANDERS / GUINESS Lava
    & Mike's hard Lemonade at the Mill New York

  • TD Lighting

    Mac Guff

    March 2002 - April 2002

    MOBIL : Directed by NICOLAS BEYER

  • 3D Lead

    Futurikon

    November 2001 - March 2002

    - Malo Korrigan TV serie
    Realisator: ARTHUR QWAK & PASCAL DAVID
    - Dragon Hunter (2D pilote)

  • Digital artist / sequence lead

    Ex Machina

    April 2000 - June 2000

    Nestlé: Smarties TV campain by TANGUY DE KERMEN

  • Digital Artist

    BUF company

    February 1999 - May 2000

    – BUF / Newline Cinema
    Director: TARSEM / THE CELL
    – BUF / SCI-FI USA TV Channel
    Director: MARC CARO
    – BUF / NIKE
    Realisator: MICHEL GONDRY
    – BUF / PEUGEOT 406
    Director : FREDERIC PLANCHON
    – BUF / ORANGINA
    Director: J. CAMITZ
    – BUF / PACO RABANNE
    Director: S. JANIAK
    – BUF / CITYBANK .................
    .........................

  • Artist

    BUF

    1999 - 2000

    CG Artist (All around/ Lighting TD/ Matte Paint)

  • Rendering Consultant

    Medialab

    December 1998 - December 1998

    estimating pipeline for a TV serie

  • Animatic Artist

    Delphine Software

    June 1998 - September 1998

    Darkstone, 30' cinematic

  • Co Creative Director

    Nexus Interaction

    January 1997 - July 1997

    Project : Reves de Mars

  • Lead Houdini env / Asset

    MPC EPISODIC

    December 1921 - March 1922
    London, United Kingdom
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Education

  • Bachelor Degree in in Math & Computer Science

    Université de Montpellier

    1994 - 1997

  • BAC in Science

    Lycee LeVigan

    1992 - 1994