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LEADING &
RESPONSIBILITIES
Abba Voyage was my first project as Lead Lighting TD at ILM. I participated as part of the light leadership team & was involved in interviews, department & technical meetings. I configured the initial project’s site setup & proposed optimised workflows locally, which were later adopted globally. I was integral in sharing site information & creating detailed confluence pages which were leveraged by lighters globally.
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TOOLS &
DEVELOPMENT
Tool development continued as my projection, picture-in-picture & reference management tools were released to ILM sites globally. I created several new tools for Abba: one leveraged pre-existing light data & manipulated it for faster turnarounds in Nuke, another matched audio waveforms using expression math in an easy-to-use UI. Once lighting was approved, tools transferred data back to Katana.
PROJECT
COMPLEXITY
Dubbed as ILM’s most complex project to date, Abba had unique characteristics. Each song comprised of many shots, each including up to eight camera views & staggering 20,000 pixel resolutions. To optimise resources, I configured a system based on render quality settings, which was later adopted across other ILM sites. Various settings filtered through differently, changing setup, quality & resolution to conserve resources.
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PROJECT
INFORMATION
lead lighting technical director
- Industrial Light & Magic (501-1001 employees; Motion Pictures & Film Industry)
- May 2021 – March 2022 (13 months, Vancouver BC, Canada)
