Nico Dufort

Past

Technical Director, Matte Painting at Ilion Animation Studios
Technical Director, Scene Composing at Ilion Animation Studios
Jr. Technical Director, Lighting/FX at Meteor Studios

Technical Assistant at Digital Domain
Data Manager at Digital Domain
Technical Assistant at Digital Domain
Course Reader at San Jose State University
Teaching Assistant at San Jose State University
Technician Assistant at San Jose State University
Teaching Assistant at San Jose State University

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Education

San Jose State University

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Connections

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Industry

Motion Pictures and Film

Nico Dufort’s Summary

Technical director for Lighting, Matte Painting, among others.

"Planet 51"
"Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D" (NC)
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (NC)
"Speed Racer" (NC)
"Meet the Robinsons 3D"
"Flags of Our Fathers" (NC)
"The Return of Zoom"
"My Super Ex Girlfriend" (NC)

Nico Dufort’s Specialties:

Scripting and problem solving for: lighting, shading, rendering, matte painting, compositing, and trying to make things work...
RenderMan (PRMan/3Delight), mental ray, Nuke, Maya, XSI, Python, Perl, Shell, Javascript

Nico Dufort’s Experience

Technical Director, Matte Painting

Ilion Animation Studios

(Privately Held; Animation industry)

July 2008 — June 2009 (1 year )

Redefined matte painting pipeline to create artist-oriented environment.
Developed Photoshop/Nuke/Max toolset in Python to facilitate and
streamline matte painting procedures and techniques.
Assisted artists with debugging of problematic shots.
Provided communication environment for TD's and artists.

"Planet 51"
Technical Director, Scene Composing

Ilion Animation Studios

(Privately Held; Animation industry)

June 2008 — July 2008 (2 months)

Documented scene-composing and scene optimization procedures.

"Planet 51"
Jr. Technical Director, Lighting/FX

Meteor Studios

(Privately Held; Motion Pictures and Film industry)

September 2007 — November 2007 (3 months)

Setup, assembled, and debugged shot assets for lighting,
Provided atmospheric effects for stereoscopic feature project.

"Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D"
Technical Assistant

Digital Domain

(Privately Held; Entertainment industry)

February 2007 — June 2007 (5 months)

Drafted definition, evaluation and training material for Production Services.
Assisted lighting TDs on documentation of lighting tools.

"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (NC)
"Speed Racer" (NC)
Data Manager

Digital Domain

(Privately Held; Entertainment industry)

September 2006 — February 2007 (6 months)

Managed stereoscopic show needs for shot transfers between facility and client.
Assisted TDs with debugging client data/scenes/renders.
QC's outgoing shots.

"Meet the Robinsons 3D"
Technical Assistant

Digital Domain

(Privately Held; Entertainment industry)

October 2005 — September 2006 (1 year )

Provided technical support for feature productions.
Managed space and cpu needs by working with IO and Renderwatchers.

"Flags of Our Fathers" (NC)
"The Return of Zoom"
"My Super Ex Girlfriend" (NC)
Course Reader

San Jose State University

(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

August 2004 — December 2004 (5 months)

Reviewed and corrected term papers of intro-level art history students.
Teaching Assistant

San Jose State University

(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

2000 — 2004 (4 years )

Provided one-on-one technical support to 100+ students and teachers, covering modeling, animation, texturing, lighting and compositing.
Technician Assistant

San Jose State University

(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

January 2003 — May 2003 (5 months)

Maintained software and hardware in computer and video labs.
Teaching Assistant

San Jose State University

(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

August 2001 — May 2002 (10 months)

Demonstrated basic C and OpenGL coding to 70+ students.