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David Saber |
3d generalist, 3d character animator |
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3D Freelancer |
Resume 2011 |
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Personal Information |
Email: davids@davidsaber.com , Web:
www.davidsaber.com , www.davidsaber.tel
Phones: +33 6 26
13 25 98 , +33 5 16 16 57 07 , +33 2 98 69 28 26 .
Address: 2 Rue Léonard
Jarraud, bat D apt 422, 16000 Angoulême, France
Born: 28/04/71,
french citizenship.
Freelancer: in
France, registered to “La Maison des Artistes”.
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Working Experience |
JUNE 2011 TO AUGUST 2011: THE GARFIELD SHOW SEASON 3,
3d animated children TV series
Work place: Once Upon a Toon, Angoulême,
France (http://www.onceuponatoon.fr/).
Position: 3d character animator.
Tasks: animated characters according to the storyboard, 8
seconds per day.
Software used: Softimage 7.5 with the “Ellipse ToonMan”
plugins.
Client: Dargaud Media, series
broadcast on TV channels worldwide (http://www.thegarfieldshow-diary.com).
SEPTEMBER 2010 TO JULY 2011: 2D GRAPHICS AND WEB
DESIGN TEACHING
Work place: Greta & LISA, Angoulême, France.
Position: teacher.
Tasks: taught several 2d graphic applications including Adobe
Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, and how to build a web site.
Software used: Adobe CS3: Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Quark
Xpress, Dreamweaver.
Client: Greta Charente (http://www.gretacharente.com) and LISA (http://www.lyc-lisa.ac-poitiers.fr).
JANUARY 2009 TO MARCH 2011: AUTODESK SOFTIMAGE XSI
TEACHING
Work place:
École des Métiers du Cinéma D’animation, Angoulême, France, and ESTEI,
Bordeaux, France.
Position: teacher.
Tasks: taught general 3D including Autodesk Softimage, Zbrush,
character animation, etc. In Angoulême: the students were employed in a company
switching to Softimage. In Bordeaux: they were in their Master years.
Software used: Softimage 7 to 2011, Zbrush 3.5.
Client:
École des Métiers du Cinéma D’animation (http://www.angouleme-emca.fr/)
and ESTEI (http://www.estei.fr).
DECEMBER 2008 TO JANUARY 2011: RUSTICA SWALLOW BIRD
Work place: teleworking from home, and at Spirale Productions,
Brest, France (www.spirale-production.fr/).
Position: modeler, rigger, animator, tester.
Tasks: creation of a swallow bird for a real time engine, a demo
clip, and a documentary: modeling, skeleton, textures, ICE tests for the body
feathers, rig in collaboration with Jo Plaete, animations, rendering, plugins
testing, team communications, reports writing, and various other tasks.
Software used: Softimage 7.5 to 2011, custom Softimage plugins,
Photoshop CS4.
Client:
Spirale Productions, Brest, France.
OCTOBER 2008 TO JANUARY 2009: MEDICAL VISUALISATIONS
Work place: teleworking from home, for Melody Publicis Healthcare
(www.melody.fr), Montpelier, France.
Position: 3d all-rounder.
Tasks: modeled, textured and rigged a pair of glasses. Modeled,
textured, rendered a human eye, animated particles in the inside of this eye
and created other medical items.
Software used: XSI 7.
Client: Essilor and Alcon.
MARCH 2008 TO JUNE 2008: CANTOCHE LIVING ACTOR AVATARS
Work place: teleworking from home, for Cantoche
(http://www.cantoche.com), France-USA.
Position: character animator.
Tasks: animated real time 3d actors.
Software used:
XSI 5.
Client:
« Centre de formation de la profession bancaire », for their personnel’s training.
NOVEMBER 2007 AND JANUARY 2008: NEOSHIFTERS, TV
commercial
Work
place: teleworking from home, for Skuad Studios (www.skuadstudios.com), Montreal, Canada.
Position: rigger.
Tasks: rigged complex 3d transformer robots that are toys in
real life.
Software
used: XSI 6.5.
Client: Mega (toys manufacturer), Neoshifter TV commercial
broadcast in North America (www.neoshifters.com).
DECEMBER 2007: THE STRETCHTOES & THE RONDOS, 3d
animated children’s TV series
Work place: Pinka Productions (http://www.pinka-prod.com/), Annecy,
France.
Position: modeler.
Tasks: modeled 3d props and settings.
Software used: XSI 6.5.
Client: TV channels, broadcast in France and abroad. French name:
“Elasto-Culbuto”
NOVEMBER 2006 TO AUGUST 2007: DARKFALL, online multi
player role playing video game
Work place: Aventurine, Athens, Greece, http://www.aventurine.gr/ .
Position: 3d character animator.
Tasks: animated humanoid and 4 legged creatures, skinned
characters, animated particles for explosions.
Software used: 3dsMax 8 and especially the Character Studio part,
XSI 6.
Client: Aventurine, game sold worldwide (see http://www.darkfallonline.com/ ).
OCTOBER 2006: MISTER GLUESOME, animated short
Work place: from home, personal project
Tasks: modeled, textured, created materials, lighted, animated
the character, used the animation mixer, rendered, sound edited, video edited, DVD
authored, and everything else.
Software used: XSI 5, Photoshop 8, Sony Vegas 6 & DVD Architect
3.
Client: personal project, broadcast on the web (http://www.davidsaber.com ).
MAY 2006 TO SEPTEMBER
2006: PET ALIEN 2, 3d animated children’s TV series
Work place: Antefilms,
Angouleme, France, http://www.antefilms.com/
Position: 3d modeler.
Tasks: modeled
characters, cloths and props.
Software used: XSI 5.
Client: Cartoon
Network, series broadcast on TV channels worldwide (http://www.petalien.com/).
JANUARY TO OCTOBER
2005 & JANUARY TO MAY 2006: CODE LYOKO 2 & 3, 3d animated children TV
series
Work place:
Antefilms, Angouleme, France, http://www.antefilms.com/
Position: 3d
character animator and layout operator.
Tasks: animated
characters and organized layouts according to the storyboard.
Software used: XSI 4
& 5.
Client: Cartoon
Network, series broadcast on TV channels worldwide (http://www.codelyoko.com/).
DECEMBER 2004 AND
OCTOBER TO DECEMBER 2005: INVISIBLE MAN, 3d animated children TV series
Work place:
Antefilms, Angouleme, France, http://www.antefilms.com/
Position: 3d
animator and layout operator.
Tasks:
animated characters, vehicles, organized layouts according to the storyboard.
Software used: XSI 4,
Digital Fusion 5.
Client:
Cartoon Network, series broadcast on TV channels worldwide (http://im.brb.es/).
OCTOBER 2004 TO
DECEMBER 2004: RENAULT MEGANE TROPHY, car presentation
Work place:
Pagecran, Versailles, France, http://www.pagecran.fr/
Position: 3d all-rounder.
Tasks:
textured, created materials, and rendered a prototype of a Renault sport car,
created particles for its aerodynamics, animated the car and its engine.
Software used: XSI 5.
Client: Renault,
cdrom given to partners and documentary broadcast on French TV
(http://www.renault-sport.fr/fr/world_series/megane_trophy/).
SEPTEMBER 2004 TO
OCTOBER 2004: L’OBESITE, TV documentary
Work place:
Les Astronautes, Paris, France, http://www.l-a-prod.com/
Position: 3d all-rounder.
Tasks: modeled,
textured, animated and rendered the effects of obesity on the human body.
Software used: XSI 4,
Photoshop.
Client: TV5
channel, documentary broadcast on French TV.
SEPTEMBER 2004:
JOHNSON FRESHENER, TV commercial
Work place: Cube
Creative, Paris, France, http://www.cube-creative.com
Position: 3d all-rounder.
Tasks:
animated particles to represent a spray chasing the smell of shoes.
Software used: XSI 4.
Client: Johnson,
commercial broadcast on French TV.
AUGUST 2004: HUBER,
corporate movie
Work place: Cube
Creative, Paris, France, http://www.cube-creative.com
Position: 3d all-rounder.
Tasks: modeled
and animated the inside of the human body, on which the HUBER machine strengthens
the spinal column.
Software used: XSI 4.
Client: LPG
Endermologie, movie supplied on DVD and web for buyers
JUNE 2004: PARIS
BREST, short movie
Work place: teleworking
at home for L’Age d’Or, Paris, France, http://www.agedor-prod.com
Position: 3d all-rounder.
Tasks: animated
leaves flying over a camera mapped video scene of the movie.
Software used: XSI 4,
Photoshop.
Client: L’Age
d’Or, movie broadcast in festivals.
MARCH 2004: TOMTOM
ET NANA, animated children TV series
Work place: teleworking
from home for Jufox, Paris, France, http://www.jufox.com/
Position: 3d all-rounder.
Tasks:
recreated in 3d modeling and materials a character of the famous comic strip,
toon rendered the character.
Software used: XSI 4,
Photoshop.
Client: Jufox,
series broadcast on French TV.
FEBRUARY 2004: FURNITURES
MODELS, for architectural visualizations
Work place: teleworking
for 3dgoyon, Paris, France, http://www.3dgoyon.com/
Position: 3d
modeler.
Tasks:
modeled furniture for 3d building interiors.
Software used: XSI 4.
Client:
3dgoyon, movie supplied on DVD for real estate promoters.
OCTOBER 2003 TO JUNE
2004: ARCHITECTURAL VISUALISATIONS
Work place: Bcome,
Paris, France, http://www.groupeb.com/
Position: 3d all
rounder.
Tasks:
constructed 3d buildings from the architects’ plans, textured, lighted them,
reproduced their environments, animated cameras, photoshoped textures, managed
network rendering.
Software used: XSI 4,
Photoshop.
Client: Ocde,
Coprim, Cogedim, Mab, movies supplied on DVD for real estate promoters.
AUGUST 2003: NOBLE
ART, French rap band I AM’s video clip
Work place: API,
Paris, France, http://www.api-productions.com/
Position: 3d all
rounder.
Tasks: animated
3d characters, mixed existing animations, animated vehicles, organized scene
layouts, rendered scenes, managed network rendering.
Software used: XSI 4.
Client: I AM, video
clip broadcast on MTV and other worldwide channels.
JUNE 2003 TO JULY
2003: CHOC INFO, magazine
Work place: teleworking
for Choc Info, Paris, France
Position:
desktop publishing operator.
Tasks:
created the layout of a magazine.
Software used:
Indesign 2, Photoshop.
Client: Choc
Info.
NOVEMBER 2002 TO DECEMBER
2002: THE FROG 2, animated short
Work place: from
home, personal project
Tasks:
modeling, texturing, materials, lighting, character animation, animation mixer,
rendering, sound editing, DVD authoring, and everything else.
Software used: XSI 3,
Photoshop, Soundforge, Premiere, Reel DVD.
Client:
personal project, broadcast on the web and on various TV channels.
FEBRUARY 2002 TO
SEPTEMBER 2002: GREANWOLD, movie project
Work place: teleworking
from home, for You And Me, Canada
Tasks: modeled
3d characters according to reference drawings.
Software used: XSI 2
& 3.
Client: You
and Me.
DECEMBER 2001 TO
JANUARY 2002: SKIPPY THE OCTOPUS
Work place: teleworking
from home, for Crystal Productions
Position: 3d all
rounder.
Tasks:
modeled, toon textured, rigged, animated, toon rendered a cartoon style
octopus.
Software used: XSI
1.5, Photoshop.
Client:
Octopus used in a TV commercial about sodas, broadcast on RFO, French TV
channel.
MARCH 2001 TO NOVEMBER
2001: OAKIS, permanent job
Work place: Oakis,
Paris, France
Position: 3d all
rounder.
Tasks:
modeled, textured, lighted, rendered the room of the “Eraser head” movie, and
created other various 3d graphics for clients of Oakis.
Software used: Maya 3,
Photoshop.
Client: Oakis.
1995 TO 1998:
DESKTOP PUBLISHING
Work place:
various companies, Rennes, France
Position:
desktop publishing operator.
Tasks:
layouts for magazines and documents.
Software used: Quark
XPress, Photoshop, CorelDraw.
Client:
various.
1993 TO 1995:
SCHOOL SUPERVISOR
Work place:
various schools, Bretagne, France, during my studies years.
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Education |
- DESS Images de synthèse: level
5 Master in 3d graphics, 2d, VRML, animation, cinema, story board, Softimage 3D
3.8, XSI 1, at the University of Strasbourg, France,
2000.
- Diplôme
Universitaire Multimedia: level 4 Master in
Cdrom editing and web design, at the University of Strasbourg, France, 1999.
- Licence d'Arts
Plastiques: Degree in Visual Arts, Plastic Arts (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic_arts) University of Rennes, France, 1996.
- Evening drawing
lessons: At the Fine Arts School: Ecole des Beaux Arts of
Rennes, France, 1990-1992.
- Languages: French, English, Greek (learning).
- Driving license: French “Permis B”, owning a car.
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Computer Skills |
3D GRAPHICS
Autodesk Softimage
XSI 2012: used during 11 years, used currently, character
animator and 3d all-rounder, user and instructor.
Zbrush 3.5: used during 1 year, last used in 2010.
3dsMax 2008: used during 1 year, last used in 2007, especially
the Character Studio part
Maya 3: used during 1 year, last used in 2003.
2D GRAPHICS
Photoshop 12 cs5: used during 15 years, used currently, user and instructor.
Illustrator 15 cs5: used during 6 years, used currently, user and
instructor.
Corel Draw 12: used during 6 years, last used in 2003.
COMPOSITING AND VIDEO
EDITING
Autodesk Softimage 2010: used during 10 years, used currently.
Sony Vegas Pro 9: used during 6 years, used currently.
Virtual Dub 1.9: used during 6 years, used currently.
Adobe Premiere 6: used during 5 years, last used in 2003.
Digital Fusion 5: used during 2 years, last used in 2006.
INTERACTIVE DESIGN
(WEB SITE, CDROM & DVD VIDEO)
Dreamweaver 10 cs4: used during 6 years, used currently.
Flash 9 CS3: used during 2 years, last used in 2008.
Sony DVD Architect
4.5: used during 4 years, last used in 2006.
Adobe Director 7: used during 2 years, last used in 2000.
AUDIO EDITING
Sony Soundforge 9: used during 11 years, last used in 2010.
PROGRAMMING
LANGUAGES
Xhtml, Css, Action Script 3, JavaScript, VBscript, Xsi
scripting, Wsh
DESKTOP PUBLISHING
Indesign 7 CS5: used during 6 years, used currently, user and
instructor.
Quark Xpress 8: used during 6 years, used currently, user and
instructor.
OPERATING SYSTEMS
Windows 7, Dos, MacOs X, Windows Mobile 6.5.