CV

  • 13+ Years in VFX
  • On-set Experience
  • Supervision & Management Experience
  • MVN Motion Capture Actor & Technician
  • SIGGRAPH Volunteer & Chapter Founder
  • Visual Effects Society (VES) Member

Skills

  • Layout
  • Animation
  • Previs / Techvis / Postvis
  • 3D Camera & Body tracking
  • 3D Generalist
  • Team management
  • Public speaking
  • Large-scale event organisation

Languages

  • French - Native
  • English - Fluent
  • Mandarin Chinese - Fluent

Current Location: Montréal (Canada)

Known as Tiohtiá:ke, the traditional territory of the Kanien'kehá:ka Nation

Professional Experience

Head of Layout at Rodeo FX.

Montréal, Canada. Oct 2024 - Now
  • Strengthening the foundational department of the shot pipeline for Rodeo FX’s next chapter.

Head of Layout at DNEG.

Montréal, Canada. Oct 2020 - Mar 2024
  • Making sure the Montréal VFX Shoot / Data Capture, Matchmove & Layout teams perform at their best in conjunction with the global teams.

Layout Supervision at DNEG.

Montréal, Canada. Feb 2019 - Nov 2020
  • Supervising layout teams in Montreal, Mumbai & Chennai
  • Setting up the MVN Mocap system in Montreal
  • Transferring 7 years of DNEG knowledge to a fresh team in Montreal.

Layout / Previs / Animation at DNEG.

London, UK. Sept 2015 - Feb 2019
  • Jumping between Layout, Animation and Previs / Techvis / Postvis on 17+ feature films
  • In-house Moven Motion Capture Sessions. Sessions in suit or capture technician

Matchmove Supervision at DNEG.

London, UK. Apr 2013 - Sept 2015
  • Supervised Matchmove on 4 feature films
  • Lead up to 30 Matchmove artists in London, Singapore and Mumbai

Matchmove at DNEG.

London, UK. Jan 2012 – Mar 2013
  • Camera, Object & Body Tracking on 8 feature films

Pipeline Intern at Illumination Mac Guff.

Paris, France. Jul 2011 – Aug 2011
  • Two-month Internship breaking down layout master scenes into animation scenes

ACM SIGGRAPH Volunteering

Communications & Sponsorship Chair - PSCC

Worldwide. Jan 2020 - Present
  • PSCC (Professional & Student Chapters Committee)
  • We deployed a common Slack for the 60 Chapters of the world to collaborate more easily.
  • We organised the Virtual Chapters Party during the SIGGRAPH 2021 and 2022 Virtual conferences, coordinating Chapters from Washington DC, Los Angeles, Vancouver, Drexel University, MTSU, London and Bogota in order to create 14 events throughout the 5 days of the Conference.
  • In charge of outreach content and channels like the website, newsletter, and social media
  • Encourage interaction among ACM SIGGRAPH Chapters and coordinate multi-chapter efforts like sponsorship, speakers.
  • Aim towards a more international networking effort among different Chapters and between businesses and Chapters

Board Member of Montréal Chapter

Montréal, Canada. Mar 2019 - Present
  • Helping the Montreal ACM SIGGRAPH Connect, Promote and Inform the local Computer Graphics community.

Founder of London Chapter

London, UK. May 2014 - Feb 2019
  • Instigator for a Chapter in London
  • Original Chairman
  • Now one of the most active and successful ACM SIGGRAPH Chapters worldwide
  • 2 regular monthly events
  • 20+ sporadic standalone talks & events throughout each year.
  • Yearly 3-day Summer conference
  • Reaching over 4000 local CG professionals

Education

L’institut Supérieur des Arts Appliqués (LISAA).

Paris, France. 2007 – 2011
  • 1 year traditional art studies
  • 3 years of generalist CG and film making work on 4 short films
  • Master’s Degree in CG Animation film making

École d’Arts Numériques, Animation et Design (NAD).

Montreal, Canada. 2005
  • 5-day training class on the basics of 3DS MAX software

Lycée Français International de Pekin (LFIP).

Beijing, China. 2000 – 2007
  • Economics & Social Studies Baccalauréat
  • Additional Drama classes from Grade 6 until graduation

Western Academy of Beijing (WAB).

Beijing, China. 1994 – 2000