Clint Rea

IMAGE ENGINE DESIGN INC.

Look Development Lead

Vancouver, BC. January 2023 to present

• Ahsoka

• Halo

• Avatar: The Last Airbender

• Foundation

• Lift

• Skeleton Crew

• Kraven the Hunter

THE ROOKIES

Finals Judge

2020 to present

• Reviewing global finalist portfolios and nominating winning entries

INDUSTRIAL LIGHT & MAGIC

Environments Area Tech Lead

Singapore. November 2020 to November 2022

• Spearheading mainline Environments tools and workflow progression in collaboration with CG Supervisors and R&D/Production Engineering. E.g., Katana workflows, Substance automation toolkit, Houdini Solaris, RenderMan. Responsibilities range from testing and giving detailed technical feedback to wholesale direction of methodology

Senior/Lead Texture | Shading | Lookdev | Environments

Singapore. November 2020 to present

• The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (Environment Lookdev Lead)

  • VES Winner. Outstanding Created Environment in an Episode, Commercial, or Real-Time Project

  • VES Winner. Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Episode

  • Emmy Nomination. Outstanding Special Visual Effects in a Series or a Movie

• The Mandalorian Season 3

  • Emmy Nomination. Outstanding Special Visual Effects in a Series or a Movie

• Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

• Indiana Jones 5

• Red Notice

DOUBLE NEGATIVE

Senior Look Development TD

Montreal, QC. December 2019 to July 2020

• Expert technical and artistic execution of hero assets

• Build department methodology development including workflows, tools feedback, template development, presentation formats, show configurations, and internal quality control

FRAMESTORE

Environment Lighting Tech Lead

Montreal, QC. June 2019 to December 2019

• Cross-show environment department focused shading and lighting methodology and workflow development. Tools and shader functionality. Global material development and template creation. Show configurations. Autocomp management. Coordinating with HODs to determine Environment necessities, conventions, outputs, and quality control

Senior Environment Technical Director

Montreal, QC. February 2019 to December 2019

• His Dark Materials: Season 1 (BAFTA Award)(VES Nominated)

• The Aeronauts (VES Nominated)

Responsible for creating photo-real digital environments for high end visual effects shots in feature films by means of:

• Assembling models, digital matte paintings, textures, projections and lights into a CG scene for rendering

• Creating models, textures and photo-realistic digital matte paintings or collaborating with specialists in those disciplines as required

• Troubleshooting technical issues with scenes and optimizing the renders to work within the resources available

• Working with a shot Compositor to assemble renders and projections

• Working to develop the look of a shot, assets or sequence with the Visual Effects and CG Supervisors

• Lighting and scene assembly for shots or assets as required, including characters and animation

• Identifying the best approach for matching the quality of the plate photography

• Communicating with production on a regular basis in regards to schedules and deadlines

• Working in partnership with other departments to ensure that shots are delivered to the highest possible standard

THE ROOKIES

Lead Judge

2019

• Reviewing portfolio entries and scoring finalists

IMAGE ENGINE

Look Development and Lighting Artist

Vancouver, BC. March 2018 to February 2019

• Game of Thrones: Season 8 (Emmy Award Honor Certificate)

• Spider-Man: Far From Home

• Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

• Square Enix, Kingdom Hearts III Cinematics

• Pokémon: Detective Pikachu

• John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum

• Overlord

• Skyscraper

• Created well-maintained, versatile, and efficient shading graphs, light rigs and render passes

• Collaborated closely with supervisors to ensure all assets, characters, and environments worked within the scope of the lighting and color pipeline

• Coordinated with Supervisors, DMP, and Lighting Leads to establish BRP (Bundle Render Profile) template needs for shot lighting and compositing, occasionally implementing my own additions or creating my own standalone BRPs

• Communicated with R&D in order to assure all necessary parameters and functionality were included in production software (Gaffer/OSL nodes)

• Ensured texture maps and models provided met project requirements

• Wrote and modified existing OSL nodes for improved workflow and flexibility while shading

• Processed and delivered requests to and from other departments

• Procedural and hand painted techniques using a variety of toolsets. Primary applications included Gaffer, Maya, Mari, Substance Designer, Nuke, Photoshop, PTGui

PIXAR ANIMATION STUDIOS

Shading Technical Director

Emeryville, CA. June 2016 to February 2018

• Incredibles 2

• Bao

• Coco

• Look Development of props, sets and environments for show, sequence, and shot level instances

• Self driven interdepartmental communication and collaboration (from art to rendering), ensuring smooth and efficient progression and direction of assets, sets and environments throughout the production pipeline

• Procedural and hand painted texturing and shading using a variety of toolsets. Primary applications included Katana, Flow (Pixar proprietary real-time shading tool), Paint3d (Disney proprietary painting tool), Photoshop, Maya, Mari

ONIRIQUE

Short film. Director, VFX Supervisor

2015 - 2016

MACH III

Short film. CG Supervisor

2015 - 2016

THE MILL

CG Artist

New York, NY. September to November, 2015

• Texturing, Look Development, Lighting, and Compositing for Sony’s PlayStation holiday campaign

METHOD

VFX Artist

Santa Monica, CA. June to August, 2015

• Texturing, Look Development, Lighting, and Compositing on Microsoft's Halo 5 advertisement campaign (VES nominated)

THE ROOKIES

North American Finalist / Winner

2015

The Ascension Group

Head of Production

2014

• Full spectrum, full CG deliveries for channels with millions of subscribers

• Brand strategy, title design, animated short films, and episodics

2009 - 2014

• Short films, portraiture, technology integration projects, videography, title reels, tutorials, and brand design