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


web: 		elliot-contreras.com
email: 		elliot415@gmail.com
mobile: 	(415) 690-0885



..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
Rotoscope Artist
March 2010
Responsible for creating articulate rotoscope shapes in order to convert 2D filmed footage into 3D Stereoscopic images. 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, Fusion, Maya, After Effects, Photoshop, Mocha, PFTrack, Syntheyes, MotionBuilder, Final Cut Pro, Premiere. OSX, Windows XP/Vista, Unix, Python.

..Education

Exípression College for Digital Arts
2007 - 2010
Bachelor of Applied Science
Animation and Visual Effects

fxphd
2009 - Current
Online vfx courses through fxphd.com