Development Director

TAYLOR SHAW *** W **th Street, Apt *C

******@**********.***

1-415-***-**** http://www.taylorshaw.net/resume New York, NY 10023

OBJECTIVE Full-time or freelance employment commencing spring 2011. Particular interests

include feature and commercial animation and effects, motion graphics, graphics

p rogramming, shader development, effects development and software engineering

WORK Blue Sky Studios Fall 2008 Present

EXPERIENCE Effects Technical Director, Sequence Lead

Created visual effects for the animated feature films Ice Age 4, Rio, Ice Age 3 and

related marketing. Typical shot work involved particle, fluid and rigid body

simulation, shader development and development of effects pipelines. Sequence

lead responsibilities included interacting with other departments as effects

representative, overseeing effects shot work on a sequence, resource

management, and development of reusable effects systems.

PDI/Dreamworks 2004 Fall 2007

Visual Effects Animator

Created visual effects for the animated feature films Madagascar 2, Shrek the

Third, O ver The Hedge, Madagascar, and related television and print marketing.

T ypical shot work involved shader development, particle and fluid simulation,

crowd simulation, rendering, compositing, basic modeling, and development of

reusable effects systems and pipelines.

PDI/Dreamworks 2002 2004

Technical Director Lighting and Effects

Provided technical and pipeline support for lighting and effects teams on the

feature films Madagascar and Shrek 2. Responsibilities included pipeline

development, shader writing, render optimization and debugging, resource

management, and some effects shot work. Larger projects included design of

randomized shader networks for crowd surfacing, and implementation of lighting

pipelines for PDI s global illumination and hair volume shadowing systems.

Industrial Light and Magic Summer 2000

Research and Development Technical Director (Intern)

Designed and implemented productivity-enhancing plugins for

Alias Wavefront s Maya software, to be used internally at ILM. Extensive use

of Maya, the Maya API and OpenGL.

TECHNICAL Programming experience in C, C++, Python, Perl, OpenGL, MEL, Java, Unix shell.

SKILLS Knowledge of Maya, Houdini, Shake, Nuke, RenderMan, AfterEffects.

Extensive experience with rendering, shader writing, compositing, simulation.

Strong knowledge of computer graphics rendering theory, techniques and

programming with particular emphasis on film and video games.

Worked under Linux/Unix(IRIX, AIX, Solaris), Windows, MacOS.

EDUCATION Brown University, Providence RI

B.A. with Honors in Computer Science Graduated May 2002

Honors Thesis studying and implementing physically-correct Monte Carlo

rendering architectures, including an implementation of the Metropolis Light

Transport algorithm.

UTRA Fellowship studying spacetime constraint-based animation techniques.

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