David Allen
Senior Effects Developer @Sony Pictures Imageworks
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WORK HISTORY
Senior Effects Developer @Sony Pictures Imageworks
Vancouver, BC, CA
EDUCATION
University of Wisconsin
Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies
SKILLS
ABOUT DAVID ALLEN
Visual effects artist/Supervisor with over 30 years experience on both large and small scale projects.Extensive experience leading teams of visual effects artists including artistic direction, technical direction, recruiting, bidding, scheduling, and personnel management.Able to work well as a member of a team in a collaborative environment.Effective at balancing visual quality with production constraints.Broad skill-set straddling several disciplines including pre-vis, layout, lighting, effects and compositing.Able to learn new software packages quickly and adapt to new production strategies readily due to a thorough understanding of the basic principals of computer graphics.Strong technical skills including programming in C, Python, Perl, Renderman shading language, MEL, Maya API, VEX, Hscript, and Unix scripting.Extensive experience designing large-scale effects systems and integrating them into the larger production pipeline.Key liaison between R&D software engineers and production artists.
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