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Project                                                                                                                                                           
 
Secret life of pets - Short film & Marketing Lighting TD | 2015
Minions - Short film & Marketing | Lighting TD | 2015
Les As de la Jungle | Lighting TD | 2014
ARS Piscine | LookDev - Lighting Rendering TD | 2013
Baobab | Modeling - Shading - Lighting - Rendering - Pipeline | 2012
Mailbox | Personal Project | 2011
Egaro | Lighting - Animation - Set modeling | 2011
 
 
Work Experience                                                                                                                                         
 
Lighting TD | Illumination MacGuff | January 2015 - present
Work on new feature,  
 
Lighting TD | TAT Production | January 2013 | April 2013 - October 2014
Final set dress, scene cleaning, create lighting and adjust it for the framing, keep the lighting logic. Create name selection to seperate character and background, prepare each scene for rendering process. Check all passes after redering. Production quotas : 7 shots each day to create one episode each week. Work with supervision and 5 co-workers.
 
3D Generalist | Cube Creative Compagny | February 2013 - March 2013
Create sets modeling from research and with short's director. searching specific shading on character and sets to choose different color in light and shadows. Prepare light for each sets and prepare scene for animation. Rendering each shot and create passes for compositing. VFX research and animation.  
 
SIGGRAPH Student Volonteer | ACM Siggraph | August 2012
student volonteer (18 hours), mainly art gallery setup and gate keeping shift.
 
Student Graduation Movie | Supinfocom | September 2011 - June 2012
Final project at Supinfocom. Help for final script from the original idea. Executed rough layout and premodeling for sets and characters. Provided technical support for final setup, compositing pipeline creation, forest environement shading and fixing bug. Full charge of lighting and rendering. 
 
3D Intern | Digital graphics | July 2010 - September 2010
Learning compositing system Shake & Blender. Rough layout and Camera animation on a dam explosion. Research for different construction machinery. Modeling shading and rough setup on 8 machniery. Overlaping 3D water VFX on 2D shot  
 
 
Skills & Software                                                                                                                                         
 
3D soft | 3DsMax - Blender - Illumination MacGuff Software 
Rendering packages | Vray - Mental Ray - MacGuff Render
Compositing System | Nuke - Shake
Adobe Creative Suite | Photoshop - Illustrator - Premiere Pro - Lightroom
System | Windows - Linux - MacOS 
Understanding of color contrast and lighting design
Able to work as part of a team as well as alone and with supervision
Organisational skills and good attention to detail
 
Education                                                                                                                                                      
 
Supinfocom Valenciennes | Private Institution of Higher Education. Degree Level 1 | Graduate in 2012
Bachelor in Sciences | 2007
Driving license | 2007
 
 
 
 
 
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Simon Taroni | Lighting TD

 

Paris | France

simon.taroni@gmail.com

+33 (6) 22 81 94 43

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