pinkwerks/resume.html

The Resume

Visual Effects Experience

• Maryland Lottery (Commercial 2007)
• Post : Riot
• Task : Lighting, rendering & supervision.

• Duracell - Hospital (Commercial 2007)
• Post : Riot
• Task : Particle snow.

• CG Supervisor - Riot NY, 2007 to present.
• Post : Riot
• Task : Building from scratch a 3D CG VFX department.

• Aliens Vs. Predator - Requiem (feature, 2007)
• Post : Hydraulx
• Task : RND of Predator cloaking effect.

• Fantastic Four - Rise of the Silver Surfer (feature, 2007)
• Post : Hydraulx
• Task : FX (particles, fluid) work on a comet, pipeline.

• Tool (Music Video, tbr)
• Post : Hydraulx
• Task : Shading and lighting the net of being..

• The Invasion (feature, 2007)
• Post : Hydraulx
• Task : Fluid dynamics, particles, lighting bits of comping, problem solving.

• Outkast "DontChu" (Music Video, 2006)
• Post : Money Shots
• Task : Fluid dynamics - silly fishtanks!

• The Island of Doctor Death (feature, tbr)
• Post : Distributed secret ninja training camp not at RIOT.
• Task : rendering a million tiny rocks in renderman, for 2400 frames. Shaders pipleline headbanging etc.

• Uh-oh - A brief encounter (short, 2006)
• Post : Hero Motion Pictures
• Task : Fluid based smoke trails and cloud environments.

• Coke, China (commercials, 2006)
• Post : Hydraulx
• Task : Hair simulation, Maya asset management code stuff.

• The Fog (feature, 2005)
• Post : Hydraulx
• Task : 3D Fluids, custom MEL stuff.

• Transporter 2 (feature, 2005)
• Post : Big Red Pixel
• Task : 3D Supervisor, Shader Writing, lighting comping.

• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (feature, 2005)
• Post : ASYLUM
• Task : Shader Writing.

• Western Union, "Tornado" (commercial, 2005)
• Post : ASYLUM
• Task : Texturing, Shading, lighting.

• Chevy, "Ears Cover Lady" (commercial, 2005)
• Post : ASYLUM
• Task : Particles, Cloth simulation, texturing, lighting.

• Nintendo Gameboy, "Zelda - The Minish Cap" (commercial, 2004)
• Post : ASYLUM
• Task : Modeling, Shading, lighting.

• Boeing, "Satellite" (commercial, 2005)
• Post : ASYLUM
• Task : Modeling, Shading, lighting.

• Nintendo Gameboy, "Mario Prime : Echoes 2" (commercial, 2004)
• Post : ASYLUM
• Task : Shading, lighting, character rigging.

• Nintendo Gameboy, "Mario Pinball" (commercial, 2004)
• Post : ASYLUM
• Task : Shading, lighting, background animation.

• Nexium, "Night Out / ??? " (commercial x 2, 2004)
• Post : ASYLUM
• Task : Modeling, shading, lighting, animation 3d barbed wire reveal over spaghetti.

• May Company, "In Dreams / ????" (commercial x 2, 2004)
• Post : ASYLUM
• Task : CG Shoot Supervisor.

• Nintendo Gameboy, "Retro" (commercial, 2004)
• Post : ASYLUM
• Task : CG Shoot Supervisor, Background animation/lighting.

• Nintendo Gameboy, "Golf" (commercial, 2004)
• Post : ASYLUM
• Task : CG Shoot Supervisor, Background animation/lighting.

• Nintendo Gameboy, "????" (commercial, 2004)
• Post : ASYLUM
• Task : CG Shoot Supervisor, Background animation/lighting.

• Nintendo Gameboy, "Freeboy" (commercial, 2004)
• Post : ASYLUM
• Task : CG Shoot Supervisor, Background animation/lighting.

• National Treasure (feature, ????)
• Post : ASYLUM
• Task : Pre-vis and shader design.

• Chevrolet - "Car Carrier" (commercial, 2003)
• Post : ASYLUM
• Task : Rollng my own IBI/Occlusion RenderMan shaders for new sexy corvette.

• Believe Inc. (2004)
• Task : Feeding a prototype Renderman hardware framebuffer. (which was replaced by something smaller faster and 300 dollars a couple years later.)

• Level 3 (commercial, 2003)
• Post : ASYLUM
• Task : Lit a shot.

• Ford "King of Trucks" (commercial, 2003)
• Post : ASYLUM
• Task : Ligting and shaders for a shot.

• X2 : X-Men United (20th Century Fox, 2003)
• Post : ASYLUM
• Task : Titles 3D Modeling, Animation, Design, Lighting.

• Master and Commander - Far Side of the World(20th Century Fox, 2003)
• Academy Award Nominee for Best Visual Effects
• Owner : 20th Century Fox
• Post : ASYLUM
• Task : Pipeline design, CG Sails R.'n'D. and the ship shaders.

• Minority Report (Dreamworks/Fox, 2002)
• Post : ASYLUM
• Task : 3D face/glass replacement on a real watch.

• XXX (feature, 2002)
• Owner : Columbia Pictures
• Post : ASYLUM
• Task : Titles - 3D Modeling, Shading, Lighting.

• Pearl Harbor, Directors-cut DVD (Dreamworks 2003)
• Post : ASYLUM
• Task : Added some 3D bloody goory stuff to existing footage.

• Scooby Doo Title Pitch (2002)
• Post : ASYLUM
• Task : Storyboard Illustration

• Black Hawk Down (Sony Pictures 2001)
• Post : ASYLUM
• Task : 3D "god rays" of early morning rising sun.

• Dave Matthews Band, "I Did It" (Music Video, 2001)
• Post : ASYLUM
• Task : Eroded some dudes skin off.

• The Offspring, "Original Prankster" (Music Video, 2000)
• Post : ASYLUM
• Task : Fly into an eyeball and back out kind of thing. I broke my leg just before it delivered, and never could fix the pixelating texture - oh well.

• Vast, "I Dissappear" (Music Video, 2000)
• Post : ASYLUM
• Task : VFX approaching wall of destruction.

• X-Men (20th Century Fox, 2000)
• Post : ASYLUM
• Task : Titles 3D Modeling, Animation, Design, Lighting.

• Metallica, "I Dissappear" (Music Video, 2000)
• MTV Music Video Awards, "Best Visual Effects" Nominee
• Post : ASYLUM
• Task : VFX approaching wall of destruction.

• Pinocchio 2 (Unrealesed, 2000)
• Post : No Prisoners
• Task : Models texturing and lighting. FX animation and compositing.

• Fortress 2 (Feature, 1999)
• Post : No Prisoners
• Task : Models texturing and lighting.

• Dolby Digital, "Aurora" (Trailer, 1999)
• Post : Digiscope / No Prisoners
• Task : Did it all from concept story boards provided by yU + Co.

• Wing Commander (Feature, 1999)
• Post : Digital Anvil
• Task : Pipeline, Animation, Lighting and FX animation.

• Turbulence (Feature, 1997)
• Post : Boss Film Studios
• Task : 3D Animatics, Compositing.

• Air Force One (Feature, 1997)
• Post : Boss Film Studios
• Task : Particles

• The Fantasticks (1996)
• Post : Boss Film Studios
• Task : Wire removal.

• Species (1995)
• Post : Boss Film Studios
• Task : Tracking marker paint-out. Internship.

Directing

• Plaistow Flex Out (Music Video 2002)
• Best of Show - Kool Aid Film Festival
• Finalist, Warp Record's "Go Plastic" Squarepusher Music Video Competition
• Co-Directed, Co-Wrote and Co-Produced this animated music video.

Skills

• Artsy Fartsy Designzey Crap
• People
• 3D : Maya (& API) / Renderman / Mental Ray / OpenGL
• 2D : Toxik / Shake / Photoshop / THE GIMP!!!!1oneone
• Programming : MEL, C, C++, Objective-C (Cocoa/GNUstep), bash & tcsh scripting, PERL, Python
• General Computer Hardware / Networking

Education

• BOSS Film Studios - 1995 Internship. (Thanks, to all those dudes who took the time to show a kid something.)
• Orange County High School of the Arts, Visual Arts (1992-1994)
• Los Alamitos High School - Los Alamitos, CA (1994)
• Dungeons & Dragons

Misc.

• A.K.A. Christopher M. Bonnstetter on the IMDB