VFX/CG Sup, Warner Brothers
Greater Los Angeles Area
- Current
-
- VFX/CG Supervisor at Warner Brothers
- Golf Course Development at Eldorado Golf Course
- Past
-
- Technical Director/Pipeline DEV on Resident Evil at Studio Nouveau
- VFX/CG Supervisor at Paramount Pictures
- Pipeline Consultant at Southpark
- Artist at CafeFx
- CG Supervisor at Omation Studios
- Hair & Fur Supervisor, Shot Finaling Dept. Supervisor at Omation
- Senior TD at Omation
- Animation & FX TD at Action Synthese
- Chair Professor at Savannah College of Art and Design
- Storyboarder at Nickel City Films
- Technical Staff at Rogers Communication Center
- Teaching Assistant at Ryerson University
- Storyboard Artist at Sussex Productions
- Intern 2D Computer Animation at MAE Productions
- Edit Assitant at Gough Productions
- 2nd Camera at Gough Productions
- Show Installation, Framing at Moscow Art Gallery
- Layout, Stained Glass Windows at Artistic Glass
- Artist Apprentice at Robert Longo
- Framer at Fourteen Estates Construction
- Education
-
- Rochester Institute of Technology
- Savannah College of Art and Design
- Ryerson University
- Sheridan College
- Pratt Institute
- Art and Language School
- Trinity College School
- Recommended
-
22 people have recommended Graham D. - Connections
-
413
connections
- Industry
- Motion Pictures and Film
- Websites
Graham D. Clark’s Summary
Graham D. Clark’s Specialties:
vfx cg supervision, management, pipeline, hair/fur, stereographer, rigging, tools, traditional art, RnD, DEV, Look DEVelopment, XSI, Houdini, rusty at Flint/Flame Maya, the usual CG/VFX applications etc, scripting jscript, VB, some programming C# etc. purchasing, recruiting,
Graham D. Clark’s Experience
-
VFX/CG Supervisor
Warner Brothers
(Motion Pictures and Film industry)
June 2008 — Present (5 months)
Ill be at www.mainstreetpictures.com in Hollywood first few months.
-
Golf Course Development
Eldorado Golf Course
(Partnership; 11-50 employees; Sports industry)
July 2000 — Present (8 years 4 months)
Pushed acres of dirt with tractors and shovled miles of trenches for years in the rain with our partners, but I think the course looks great, and it's now doing quite well:
http://www.9hole.com/ -
Technical Director/Pipeline DEV on Resident Evil
Studio Nouveau
(Privately Held; Entertainment industry)
February 2008 — May 2008 (4 months)
-
VFX/CG Supervisor
Paramount Pictures
(Public Company; Motion Pictures and Film industry)
February 2007 — February 2008 (1 year 1 month)
-VFX/CG sup, stereographer etc on various film and in house undisclosable development projects.
Investigated various techniques for 2D->3D stereo conversion of CG and live features and stereographic cinematography and post tools and worked with various major VFX/CG industry vendors.
-Supervised Sonys 2D->3D stereo conversion of the Paramount Logo, first presented in front of Beowulf.
-Latest project: Managing Look Development on CG feature pre-pre-production, and hoping for green ;)
Paramount Pictures http://www.paramount.com/
5555 Melrose Ave. Hollywood, CA 90038 -
Pipeline Consultant
Southpark
(Management Consulting industry)
June 2007 — July 2007 (2 months)
personally recommended to, hired on to produce pipeline recommendations for Southpark http://www.southparkstudios.com/
-
Artist
CafeFx
(Motion Pictures and Film industry)
October 2006 — January 2007 (4 months)
Worked on feaurette Lucifer http://posters.imdb.com/title/tt0993770/ mostly just building wing assets and wing pipeline
-
CG Supervisor
Omation Studios
(Motion Pictures and Film industry)
October 2005 — October 2006 (1 year 1 month)
The CG Supervisor of Barnyard
Feature film Barnyard http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0414853/
Interview: http://www.xsibase.com/articles.php?detail=117 -
Hair & Fur Supervisor, Shot Finaling Dept. Supervisor
Omation
(Motion Pictures and Film industry)
March 2005 — October 2005 (8 months)
-
Senior TD
Omation
(Motion Pictures and Film industry)
November 2004 — March 2005 (5 months)
Worked directly with RnD dept on pipeline and tools for the crew of Barnyard in every department.
Presented at the 1st meeting, XSI | Los Angeles on Custom Tools For Production. http://www.xsila.com/images/meeting1.gif -
Animation & FX TD
Action Synthese
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Motion Pictures and Film industry)
January 2004 — September 2004 (9 months)
-TD for the Animation department, also helped with Modeling, Texture and Lighting dept. tools finishing beside the Flame artist with the other two FX artists helping them with tool development.
-Technical Animator for a few shots of Dougal, The Magic Roundabout.
Dougal: http://us.imdb.com/character/ch0057693/
Action Synthese: http://www.actionsynthese.com/
-Interview with Frédéric Bonometti mentioning some of my work:
http://www.3dvf.com/modules/publish/Interviews_1358_3.html -
Chair Professor
Savannah College of Art and Design
(Higher Education industry)
January 1996 — June 2000 (4 years 6 months)
http://www.scad.edu/
During the year 1996 as chair of the Computer Art Department it grew from 300 to 750 students.
I founded 5 Undergraduate and Graduate programs and developed curriculum for them:
-2D Animation
-3D Animation and VFX
-one of the two of the worlds first degree awarding Game Development programs
-the worlds first Undergraduate and Graduate Motion Graphics and Broadcast Design programs.
I also manged the budget and partnerships, and setup of the studios, of all departments.
Exhibitor at SIGGRAPH for many years.
I also co-founded the VHS project, Virtual Historic Savannah Project that Greg later took to greater hights. http://vsav.scad.edu/ VHS won many awards including the US National Endowment for the Humanities.
Member of a number of local business assosiations including BETA.
I was one of the Hosts and mangers for the Delphi conference, invitees included many of the top recognized CG and film industry professionals. -
Storyboarder
Nickel City Films
(Motion Pictures and Film industry)
1995 — 1996 (1 year)
-
Technical Staff
Rogers Communication Center
(Public Company; Broadcast Media industry)
1994 — 1995 (1 year)
-
Teaching Assistant
Ryerson University
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
1994 — 1995 (1 year)
http://www.ryerson.ca
-
Storyboard Artist
Sussex Productions
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Motion Pictures and Film industry)
1993 — 1994 (1 year)
Storyboards, Documentary Director, Casting assist, Video-assist, Art Department
Henry and Verlin http://posters.imdb.com/title/tt0110013/
- feature flim, 17 International Awards, Sussex Productions,
Producer John Board http://posters.imdb.com/name/nm0090159/,
Producer Simon Board http://posters.imdb.com/name/nm0090168/,
Director Gary Ledbetter -
Intern 2D Computer Animation
MAE Productions
(Privately Held; Broadcast Media industry)
June 1993 — September 1993 (4 months)
http://www.maeproductionsinc.com
I mostly hand animated in various digital apps, and did some Prisms experimentation -
Edit Assitant
Gough Productions
(Privately Held; Broadcast Media industry)
June 1993 — September 1993 (4 months)
Documentary on Aids awareness, Karrin Donnan
Director Alan Gough http://posters.imdb.com/name/nm0332183/ -
2nd Camera
Gough Productions
(Privately Held; Broadcast Media industry)
June 1993 — September 1993 (4 months)
Tourettes Syndrome - Documentary
Director Alan Gough http://posters.imdb.com/name/nm0332183/ -
Show Installation, Framing
Moscow Art Gallery
(Privately Held; Fine Art industry)
1990 — 1990 (less than a year)
Transported Fine Art and aided in setting up shows in Washington, Atlanta, Toronto
-
Layout, Stained Glass Windows
Artistic Glass
(Privately Held; Fine Art industry)
1990 — 1990 (less than a year)
-
Artist Apprentice
Robert Longo
(Privately Held; Fine Art industry)
1989 — 1990 (1 year)
Robert Longo http://posters.imdb.com/name/nm0519434/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Longo
Director of Johnny Mnemonic http://posters.imdb.com/title/tt0113481/
I worked mostly on series Black Flags at his studio -
Framer
Fourteen Estates Construction
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Construction industry)
1989 — 1989 (less than a year)
Framed large estate homes, and golf course club houses
Graham D. Clark’s Education
-
Rochester Institute of Technology
M.F.A., Computer Animation, 2000 — 2006
http://www.rit.edu/
- Activities and Societies:
- 2000 SPAS Honors Show
-
Savannah College of Art and Design
Computer Art | Motion Graphics 1999 — 2000
http://www.scad.edu/
-
Ryerson University
B.A.A., Media/Photographic Arts, 1991 — 1995
http://www.ryerson.ca
-
Sheridan College
Grad Cert., Computer Animation, 1994 — 1994
http://www1.sheridaninstitute.ca/
-
Pratt Institute
B.F.A, Painting, 1986 — 1990
http://www.pratt.edu/
- Activities and Societies:
- Honors, Deans List
-
Art and Language School
Printmaking, Art History 1986 — 1986
-
Trinity College School
HSD, 1980 — 1986
Art Instructor: David Blackwood
- Activities and Societies:
- Art Honors
Additional Information
Graham D. Clark’s Websites:
Graham D. Clark’s Interests:
downhill skiing, bridge climbing, snowboarding, kayak surfing, windsurfing, hiking, snorkeling, scuba diving
Graham D. Clark’s Groups:
3D-Pro, ACM, SIGGRAPH, XSI | LA
-
Softimage XSI -
Digital Asset Management -
Visual Effects, Film and Games Professionals (www.vfx-recruit.com) -
ThoseInFilm (Motion Pictures & Film Industry) -
Animation, Media & Entertainment -
Filmmakers -
Film TV Professionals -
Visual Effects Professionals -
Pratt Institute Alumni
Graham D. Clark’s Honors:
00 SPAS Honors show, Rochester Institute of Technology
Honors, Pratt Institute
Art Honors, Trinity College School
06 TD love tour
02 XSI Hair Seminar, Senceca College
01 Houdini Training - POPs - Side Effects, Sidefx
98 Softimage Training, SIGGRAPH
98 Discreet Logic Flint / Flame training, Discreet, Montreal
97 Softimage Instructor Certification Level I & II, Video Central, Orlando
96 Houdini Training - Side Effects, Centennial College
96 Nichimen Training, Silicon Studios, L.A.
Graham D. Clark’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
- career opportunities
- consulting offers
- new ventures
- job inquiries
- expertise requests
- business deals
- reference requests
- getting back in touch
