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Lorenzo R Bambino
27803 Rainier Road
Castaic, CA. 91384
c:562-841-5660
lorenzo.bambino@elbee-art.com
Online Portfolio: www.elbee-art.com
EDUCATION:
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Traditional/Computer Animation, 1997
The Art Institute of Chicago
EMPLOYMENT:
Imagi Studios, Sherman Oaks CA.
Ruff Layout/Finaler Lead
April '08 - Presents
"Astroboy"
Responsibilities included but were not limited to:
Help develop the Final Layout Department in its esthetics, its artistic goals, and help define it's role in the production pipeline. Trained new Final Layout artist in our tool sets and over all artistic vision.
Creating previsual animatics to create mood and tell the story through the camera lens.
Developing 2D layouts of "Metro City" and "Earth" for environment placement and camera direction.
Finessing cameras animation curves to create a smoother and more pleasing cinamatography.
developing the D.O.F. of the film with the DP supervisor.
Jim Henson Studios, Hollywood CA.
Environmental Modeler/Ruff Layout Artist/Cleanup Animator
October '07 - Present
"What's The Big Idea"
Responsibilities included but were not limited to:
Working on a PBS episode 3D animated show.
Modeling environments, props, and furniture. designing and stylizing all of the models.
Applying and creating textures and the look of the models.
Set Dressing and Ruff Layout in 3D and Live Action.
Cleaning up Motion Capture animation.
Super78, Hollywood CA.
LAYOUT LEAD/ANIMATOR
June '07 - August '07
"Ben10 - Race Against Time"
Responsibilities included but were not limited to:
Working on a Cartoon Network live action/3D character movie.
Blocking out shots, Tracking live action plates, placing 3D characters into shot and matching live action camera.
Taking motion capture rig and animating facial, hands, and secondary animation. key framing full 3D characters.
Walt Disney Feature Animation, Burbank CA
LAYOUT FINALER
January '05 - March '07
"Meet The Robinsons"
Responsibilities included but were not limited to:
Compiling master sets with all the elements for that set and applying a ruff look to them
Composing shots with 3D camera rig;
Tweaking 3D camera rig to match character animation
Working with various departments to see shots through completion;
Applying look variants to characters and elements
Committing, reconstituting, and trouble shooting rendering shots and creating IV's(rendering geometry).
Required a solid knowledge of Linux and mac platforms, and basic scripting.
Walt Disney Feature Animation, Burbank CA
ASSISTANT TECHNICAL DIRECTOR, Shot Finaling
March '04 - January '05
"Chicken Little"
Responsibilities included but were not limited to:
Composing shots for Ruff and Finaling,
Committing, Trouble-shooting and Rendering shots.
Trouble shoot & Manipulated shake tree's
Freelance Character and Graphic Design
2002-present
Designed characters and environments for children's book
Created concept and artwork using pencil and watercolor
Art Director and Character Designer for short animation film
Oversee development in character modeling and designing
Maintained continuity throughout development of story and design
Created character sheets for modelers and texture samples for characters and environments
designed story boards and over all look of the film.
Designed logo concept for TV pitched show
Drew up multiple concepts and thumbnails for client
Designed full illustrated logo for the TV concept.
Commissioned to paint clients ideas on large canvases for art shows throughout Los Angeles
Took clients ideas and created ruff to finished sketches for approval
Used approved artwork and made it into a painting
Walt Disney Feature Animation, Orlando FL
ASSISTANT TECHNICAL DIRECTOR, Animation, Modeling, Character Finaling
Aug '02 - January '04
"A Few Good Ghosts"
Responsibilities included but were not limited to:
Trained 2D animators in Maya 3D animation and other 3D pipeline GUI's.
Created Layouts for scenes, checking models and model surfaces;
Rendering and testing scenes; compiling templates, parse and config files for the pipeline; allocating and
maintaining disk space.
Walt Disney Feature Animation, Burbank CA
Render I/O Administrator
Aug '98 - Aug '02
Responsible for monitoring production-rendering using LSF and BBQ.;
trouble shooting and remedied render issues such as user, host issues, software issues,
and user error; Maintaining and projecting
render priorities to meet production deadlines;
Optimizing render pipeline efficiency; Provide LSF/DAQ training;
Printing rendered images on 16 and/or 24 field paper using Inga software.
Comparing plot registration with CAPS cameras to ensure accuracy.
CAPS: Documenting in/out rendered images, compositing tests,
editing and creating x-sheets.
SOFTWARE:
Maya, Photoshop, Illustrator, Softimage, Shake, Paint3d, DisneyPaint, Gimp, CAPS, LSF, (BBQ)Disney's rendering submit package, INGA, Showtool, SFM, Adobe after effects, Adobe Premier, Unix, Linux, OSX, HTML.
PRODUCTION:
Dinosaur, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Gone in 60 Seconds (TSL), 102 Dalmations (TSL), Treasure Planet, A Few Good Ghosts, Home on the Range, Chicken Little, Meet The Robinson, BEN 10 "Race Against Time", What's The Big Idea.
SKILLS/EXPERIENCE
Strong drawing, painting and traditional background.
Extensive knowledge of 2D and 3D animation pipeline;
academic and production.
Texture painting characters and environments using DisneyPaint,
Advanced Maya, and Shake.
Working knowledge of UNIX/LINUX; understand filesystem hierarchy, user environments, basic
scripting, system and network
troubleshooting. Understanding of distributed batch
queuing systems and rendering; LSF and proprietary.
REFERENCES: Available upon request.
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