Adrien "CaYuS" Toupet

Current

• Effects TD at Cinesite

Past

• Effects TD at Framestore CFC
• VFX Technical Director at Def2Shoot
• VFX Technical Director at SoudjaProd

• Character TD & VFX at la maison
• XSI Training course at Def2Shoot
• Intranet development at TeamTo
• Web development at Kiwi-production
• Web development, Co-funder at WAIB (Game servers)

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Education

• E.E.S.A. / Ecole Georges Méliès
• Koronin Art School

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Industry

Motion Pictures and Film

Adrien "CaYuS" Toupet’s Summary

VFX Technical Director (Rigid Bodies, Particles, Fluids, Cloth...) with Houdini, Maya and XSI

VES Awards 2009 nominee for "Outstanding Effects in a Student Project"

Adrien "CaYuS" Toupet’s Specialties:

3D : Houdini, Maya, XSI
2D : After Effects, Fusion, Photoshop, Gimp
Dev : Mel, Python, JScript, HScript, PHP/SQL, XHTML/CSS

Adrien "CaYuS" Toupet’s Experience

• Effects TD

  Cinesite

  (Privately Held; Motion Pictures and Film industry)

  November 2009 — Present (1 month)

  Clash of the Titans, feature directed by Louis Leterrier
  VFX : Particles, Fluids
  => Houdini
  
  http://www.cinesite.com/

• Effects TD

  Framestore CFC

  (Privately Held; Motion Pictures and Film industry)

  June 2009 — November 2009 (6 months)

  Avatar, feature directed by James Cameron
  - VFX : Particles, Fluids
  => Houdini
  
  http://www.framestore.com/

• VFX Technical Director

  Def2Shoot

  (Privately Held; Motion Pictures and Film industry)

  July 2008 — February 2009 (8 months)

  Yonayona pengin animated feature directed by Rintaro
  - VFX : Rigid Body Dynamics, Particles
  => Houdini, XSI
  
  ENA, l'école du pouvoir, TV feature directed by Raoul Peck
  - VFX : Cloth
  => Maya
  
  Intersport Commecial
  - VFX : Cloth
  => Maya
  
  http://www.def2shoot.com/

• VFX Technical Director

  SoudjaProd

  (Motion Pictures and Film industry)

  January 2009 — January 2009 (1 month)

  The lost town of Switez short film directed by academy award director Kamil Polak
  - VFX : Cloth
  => Maya
  + Houdini consulting
  
  http://soudjaasso.free.fr/

• Character TD & VFX

  la maison

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Motion Pictures and Film industry)

  July 2007 — September 2007 (3 months)

  Peugeot 308 commercial directed by Bruno Aveillan
  - Character Rigging & Animation
  - VFX (Fluids)
  => XSI & Houdini
  
  http://www.alamaison.fr/

• XSI Training course

  Def2Shoot

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Motion Pictures and Film industry)

  July 2006 — July 2006 (1 month)

  http://www.def2shoot.com/

• Intranet development

  TeamTo

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Animation industry)

  June 2006 — June 2006 (1 month)

  http://www.teamto.com/

• Web development

  Kiwi-production

  (Animation industry)

  March 2005 — December 2005 (10 months)

  http://www.kiwi-production.com/

• Web development, Co-funder

  WAIB (Game servers)

  (Computer Games industry)

  January 2003 — July 2004 (1 year 7 months)

  http://www.waib.com/

Adrien "CaYuS" Toupet’s Education

• E.E.S.A. / Ecole Georges Méliès

  Animation, CGI & VFX 2005 — 2008

  http://www.eesa.fr

• Koronin Art School

  Drawing & Painting 2004 — 2005

  http://www.koronin.com

Additional Information

Adrien "CaYuS" Toupet’s Interests:

Movies, sports, computers... and travel all around the world !

Adrien "CaYuS" Toupet’s Groups:

Reso-Lab

•    The Visual Effects Society
•    ACM SIGGRAPH
•    Visual Effects, Film and Games Professionals (www.vfx-recruit.com)
•    [VFX_AG] - The Visual Effects Artists Group
•    Houdini 3D VFX Tools Users
•    TDs | VFX
•    Swiss Made VFX
•    Nordic TD Forum

Adrien "CaYuS" Toupet’s Honors:

*La Main des Maîtres* Awards :

2009 : Bitfilm (Israel) - 2nd Best Animation
2009 : Strasbourg International Film Festival (France) - Best Animation
2008 : SkyFest (USA) - Best animated film
2008 : E-Magiciens (France) - Bourse Lagardère
2008 : TOTI festival (Slovenia) - Animation award


And *La Main des Maîtres* official selection in :

2009 : Siggraph - Computer Animation Festival (USA)
2009 : Annecy International Animation Film Festival (France)
2009 : HDFest (USA)
2009 : GameX (USA)
2009 : Visual Effects Society (VES) Awards (USA)


* Press articles & Interviews *

2009 : Article in 3D Artist n°5
2009 : Article on SideFX website
2009 : Article in 3D World n°116
2008 : Article in Science et Vie Junior n°230
2008 : Interview for Ecran Fantastique n°290

More on : http://www.cayus.net

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