Name: Chort Sébastien
Residence: London, UK
Age: 34
Nationality: French
Family status: Married
WORK EXPERIENCES
Oct 2011 – Today
Senior Lighting Artist at The Mill (London, UK)
- Lighting on Rainbow 6 Patriot cinematic (2011)
- Lighting on several commercial projects (Nike, Heineken)
May 2007 – Sept 2011
Lead Lighting Artist at Dreamworks Animation LLC (Glendale, USA)
- Lighting on Bee Movie (2007)
- Lighting on Kung Fu Panda (2008)
- Lighting on Madagascar Escape 2 Africa (2008)
- Lighting on Monster vs Aliens (2009)
- Lead Lighting on How to train your dragon (2010)
- Lead Lighting on Shrek Forever After (2010)
- Lead Lighting on Megamind (2010)
- Lead Lighting on Puss in Boots (2011)
May 2003 – May 2007
Modeler and Scene Assembler (lighting and compositing), CG Supervisor from 2004 to 2007 at Blur Studios (Venice, USA)
- Environment modeling, Scene Assembly (Lighting and Compositing) on Mickey Twice Upon A Christmas DVD (Disney). Lead Scene assembler on Donald’s Gift one of the shorts from the DVD
- Character Modeling on Spiderman 2 Cinematics
- Scene Assembly on RockFish (Blur Short Movie)
- Scene Assembly on Terminator 3 Cinematics
- Character Modeling on Blood Rayne Cinematics
- Supervising, Character and Environment modeling, Scene Assembly on Mortal Kombat 6 TV Commercial (Midway)
- Supervising, Scene Assembly on MTV Save The Humans Aids Prevention campaign for MTV (4 Spots)
- Scene Assembly on Gopher Broke (Blur Short Movie)
- Scene Assembly on Punisher cinematics
- Character Modeling on Mr Fix It
- Scene Assembly on National Geographic documentary
- Supervising, Character and Environment modeling, Scene Assembly on XMEN Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse / Cinematic (Activision)
- Scene Assembly on NHL commercial for FOX
- Scene Assembly on Band of brother commercial.
- Supervising and Environment modeling, Scene Assembly on Olympic X Tv spots for NBC
- Scene Assembly on Sonic Next cinematic trailer
- Supervising and Environment modeling, Scene Assembly on Gentlemen’s Duel ( Blur Short Movie 2006)
- Scene Assembly on Jericho cinematic trailer
- Scene Assembly on Hellgate cinemati
- Scene Assembly on Spiderman SU cinematic
- Supervising and Environment modeling, Scene Assembly on Matchbox Pirate Land TV commercial
Jan 2001 – Apr 2003
Permanent 3d Artist at Partizan Midi Minuit (Paris, FRANCE)
- Compositing and rendering work on 3 TV commercials for DANONE
- Modeling, Rendering and compositing on Music Video for SNOOZE
- Modeling Rendering and compositing on a TV commercial for MARS
- Compositing and rendering work on 10 TV commercials for MORPION
- Modeling Rendering and compositing on a TV commercial for MM’S
SOFTWARE SKILLS
- Ability to work with in house proprietary tools
- 3DS Max (Experienced User)
- Brazil (Experienced User)
- Mental ray, Arnold, Vray (Average User)
- Lightwave (Experienced User)
- Maya (Average User)
- Photoshop (Experienced User)
- Digital Fusion (Experienced User)
- Nuke (Experienced User)
EDUCATION
1996/2000
SUPINFOCOM, school specialized in 3d conception (France, Valenciennes)
4th year graduate / conception of a short movie for the diploma
1995/1996
University of Bordeaux I (Mathematics and Computering)
1994/1995
Baccalauréat S (mathematics) with distinction