Elliot Contreras

Digital Artist

Profile

Digital artist experienced with fast paced environments, specializing in CG Lighting and Compositing.

Experience

Technicolor

Stereoscopic Compositor

June 2011 - August 2011

Responsible for creating seamless stereoscopic images.

Prime Focus

Stereoscopic Compositor

August 2010 - May 2011

Feature Film: Green Lantern
Feature Film: Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
Feature Film: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Trainer/Lead Prime Focus Mumbai, India (March-April 2011)

Cinematico

Motion Capture Technical Artist

June 2010

Prepared Phasespace Motion Capture system to be used for previs purposes in MotionBuilder.

Polygon Entertainment NDA

Rotoscope Artist

March 2010

Responsible for creating articulate rotoscope shapes. Rotoscoping was done in Nuke.

Jakes Dead (Independent Film)

Compositor

December 2009 - January 2010

Matchmoving, wire removal, and rotoscoping.

Entourage (Student Project)

Lighter, Compositor

November 2009

Matchmoved, animated, motion captured, matched CG lighting and composited a CG crab robot into a live action plate.

Fresh World (School Project)

Lighter, Compositor

September 2009 - October 2009

Textured and shaded characters, props and environments in a toon shaded style. Lit and composited five shots.

Skills

Compositing, rotoscoping, paint, matchmoving, modeling, texturing, lighting, shading, rendering, animation and motion capture.

Technical

  • Nuke
  • Maya
  • After Effects
  • Photoshop
  • Mocha
  • PFTrack
  • Syntheyes
  • MotionBuilder
  • Final Cut Pro
  • Premiere
  • OS X
  • Windows XP/Vista
  • Unix
  • Python
  • Renderman

Education

Expression College for Digital Arts - Emeryville, California

Bachelor of Applied Science - Animation and Visual Effects; February 2010

Elliot Contreras — elliot415@gmail.com — (415) - 690-0885