Jeremy Pronk

Current

• Senior Technical Director at Animal Logic

Past

• Technical Director at Emerald City Design
• Technical Director at Rising Sun Pictures
• Software Engineer at Fairlight ESP

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Education

• University of New South Wales
• University of Western Sydney

Recommended

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Connections

129 connections

Industry

Motion Pictures and Film

Websites

• My Website
• My Credits
• Animal Logic

Jeremy Pronk’s Summary

Computer scientist turned film visual effects problem solver.

Jeremy Pronk’s Specialties:

Technical aspects of lighting, shading, compositing, and fx. Current interests include image based lighting and shading, technical photography and pipeline.

Jeremy Pronk’s Experience

• Senior Technical Director

  Animal Logic

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Motion Pictures and Film industry)

  October 2004 — Present (4 years 2 months)

  Lighting and shading tools for various films and TVCs
  TVC clients include Visa, Adidas, Verizon, Optus, Caltex
  Stealth (2005) - fire r&d, cloud fx and lighting
  Aquamarine (2006) - lighting and water fx
  300 (2006) - lighting pipeline and layout tools
  Australia (TBA) - lighting and shading r&d
  Knowing (TBA) - show technical director

• Technical Director

  Emerald City Design

  (Animation industry)

  August 2003 — October 2004 (1 year 3 months)

  TVC clients include Telstra, Singapore Airlines, Smiths, Rexona, Nescafe, Djarum, Breville, Nurofen, Holden

• Technical Director

  Rising Sun Pictures

  (Motion Pictures and Film industry)

  July 2001 — August 2003 (2 years 2 months)

  cineSpace software developer
  Tempted (2001) - film cleanup pipeline
  The Nugget (2002) - compositor
  The Core (2003) - 3d water and fx
  George on the Jungle 2 (2003) - lighting pipeline
  The Last Samurai (2003) - blood fx

• Software Engineer

  Fairlight ESP

  (Computer Hardware industry)

  April 1999 — June 2001 (2 years 3 months)

  GUI development for digital audio editing workstations

Jeremy Pronk’s Education

• University of New South Wales

  B.Sc. (Hons, Class 1), Computer Science, 2006 — 2007

  Thesis "Spatially Variant Real World Light for Computer Graphics"
  SIGGRAPH poster "Spatial Image Based Lighting"

  Activities and Societies:

  SIGGRAPH 2007 Poster Program

• University of Western Sydney

  B.Sc., Computing, 1995 — 1997

Additional Information

Jeremy Pronk’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Credits
• Animal Logic

Jeremy Pronk’s Interests:

Film, World Rally Championship, competing in rally racing, drumming, photography, swimming

Jeremy Pronk’s Groups:

•    ACM SIGGRAPH

Jeremy Pronk’s Contact Settings

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