> resume 2010

INFOS
  • name:Christopher Crouzet
  • email:christopher.crouzet [at] gmail.com
  • address:Wellington, New Zealand
OBJECTIVE
I'm looking forward to work on challenging projects where I can use my skills and creativity to prototype advanced rigs, develop tools and solve problems.
EXPERIENCE
Weta Digital
Creature TD
since october 2010
Animal Logic
Lead character TD
november 2009 - june 2010 (8 months)
Sucker Punch (2011) (VFX feature film)
undisclosed project (1 pitch for a VFX feature film)
  • - creature rigging
  • - creation of a generic and modular rig to be deployed on every biped character
  • - implementation and support of a toolset to input data from mocap/Massive onto the rigs and output it back to Massive
  • - facial rigging with high range of expressions drived by deformers
  • - tools development
  • - char FX (shot fixing)
Animal Logic
Character TD
february 2009 - october 2009 (9 months)
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010) (animated feature film)
  • - character rigging
  • - tools development
Action Synthese
Character TD
november 2008 - january 2009 (3 months)
The Magic Roundabout S02 (2010) (52x11' animated TV show)
  • - character rigging
  • - tools development
Ellipsanime
Character TD
march 2008 - june 2008 (4 months)
The Garfield Show (52x11' animated TV show)
  • - creation of a generic rig that can be fitted to any quadruped character
  • - tools development
Action Synthese
Character TD
june 2005 - february 2008 (2 years 9 months)
The Magic Roundabout (2008) (52x11' animated TV show)
The Wizard of Oz (2 pitchs for an animated feature film)
Asterix (1 pitch for an animated feature film)
The Stupid Invaders (1 pitch for an animated feature film)
Tatonka (1 pitch for an animated TV show)
  • - character and props rigging
  • - tools development
  • - technical assitance to animators
SKILLS
general
  • - excellent understanding of each stage of a CGI production
  • - can easily adapt to new pipelines
  • - experienced in team working
  • - willing to learn new techniques and softwares
softwares
  • proficient:Softimage, Visual Studio C++, Photoshop, After Effects, SVN
  • notions:Maya, ClearCase
  • environments:Windows, Linux, MacOS
programming languages
  • proficient:C++, Python, MEL, JScript, VBScript, HTML/CSS
libraries & APIs
  • proficient:Softimage API
  • notions:Maya API, mental ray, wxWidgets, Trolltech Qt
abilities
  • - efficient advanced character rigging
  • - development of tools (plug-ins, operators, interfaces)
  • - oriented-object programming
  • - serialization/unserialization of data objects and structures
  • - binary and ASCII file parsing
  • - good at problem solving
languages
  • - french:mother language
  • - english:fluent
  • - german:notions
  • - spanish:notions
EDUCATION
  • - general:self-taught
  • - 2003:baccalauréat S (scientific), mathematics option

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