Simone Lombardo

About Simone Lombardo

In the CG Art and the 3D Animation for almost 20 years, Simone has been specialized in VFX and compositing, characters animation and stereoscopy, VR and pipeline development. Art director in Bruxelles, Lead Animator in Amsterdam, he also works for lot of companies and famous artists around the world (Davidoff- New-York, Luxoom-Shanghai, Jean \"Moebius\" Giraud & Hayao Miyazaki -Paris.) he joined Vfx house Pixomondo in 2010 working on movies like Hugo, Fast 5 and Red Tails as a FX TD. He left Asia for LA to work at Just Cause Productions in Los Angeles, developping pipeline for motion capture. Where he started to experiment with implementing game engine tech inside motion capture shoot. He then started his company; The Box Creative, where he implemented gaming technologies in the service of VFX rendering. Speeding up render process by tenfold. Using realtime engine for the delivery of over 100 shots for Maze Runner Escape, making it the first movie in the world to have been rendered with game engine. Doing it again on the sequel Maze Runner Scorch Trial Escape, as well as multiple other movies and tv shows since then. Working closely with Crytek to help give feedback on their Cinebox Engine. In 2016 he founded Suspended Reality, where he developed VR tech and IP\'s, and kept pushing the realtime render for the VFX industry serving as consulting for multiple VR and VFX studios. In the end of 2017, he sold Suspended Reality and joined Epic Games as a Tech Artist within the enterprise side. He has been there since then. Specialties: Video Production, CG animation, Graphic design, Compositing, VFX.VR, IP creation, art direction, and pipeline dev. Realtime graphics, scripting and tech art.

Experience

1. Senior Game Designer

   Epic Games

   Feb 2023 — Present · Cary, NC, US

Education

• Haute Ecole en Hainaut

  Master

  1998 — 2004