Milton E Rodríguez-Ríos
Half Moon Bay, CA • 650-678-8462 • miltoneuripides@gmail.com
CG Supervisor in Lighting with 15 years in animated feature production. Trusted leader and mentor, both technically and artistically, guiding teams and working on complex shots in an environment of ever-changing toolsets, techniques, and workflows. The go-to Supervisor for sequences with large numbers of shots and complex components including multiple environments, FX, and crowds. Consistently providing high-quality work, under quota, with a minimum amount of artistic direction.
- Responsible for translating the Director, Production Designer, and VFX Supervisor visions into complex, fully-realized, lighting for feature animation sequences.
- Offer direction and alternatives during reviews to help the artistic leadership reach their goals on time and on budget. Highlight cost implications of changes.
- Interact with other departments to prioritize and facilitate timely delivery of assets.
- Mentor artists to provide guidance, insight, and growth for their individual career development.
- Optimized characters for faster interactive lighting and rendering.
- Co-created Visual Development environment to keep character’s lighting and shader networks consistent.
- Casting talent for shots on shows in order to achieve balanced teams, including cross-site teams in India.
- Bidding sequences from storyboards or final layout, provide alternative cost cutting approaches.
- Optimized and cleaned up legacy characters with Surfacing Supervisor, reducing interactive and farm rendering times by 65%.
- Lead review team for reel reviews and interviewing new hires.
- Supervised Paint Fix department and checked final stereo frames for quality control.
- Taught and provided mentorship for University outreach programs with student lighters at various schools.
Work Experience
PIXAR, Emeryville, CA 2016 to present
Lighting Technical Director
| Lighting /Compositing | ||
| Coco |
Cars 3 |
Two Ghosts, Nimble Collective, Mountain View, CA 2016
Master Lighter
| Sequence Lighting |
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| Coin Operated |
Industrial Light & Magic, San Francisco, CA 2016
Lighting Technical Direcor
| Lighting | ||
| Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows |
PDI/DreamWorks, Redwood City, CA 1996 to 2015
CG Supervisor
| CG Supervisor | Lighting /Compositing | |
| Boss Baby | How to Train Your Dragon 2 | |
| B.O.O.: Bureau of Otherworldly Operations | Kung Fu Panda 2 | |
| Mr. Peabody & Sherman | Megamind | |
| Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted | Monsters vs. Aliens | |
| Puss in Boots | Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas | |
| Megamind: The Button of Doom (Video short) | Shrek | |
| Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa | ||
| Shrek the Third | ||
| Over the Hedge | ||
| The Madagascar Penguins in a Christmas Caper | ||
| Madagascar | ||
| Shrek 2 |
FX/Lighter
Antz
- DreamWorks first CG movie
- Look development & FX work on “mung” and champagne lake
- Shot lighting and compositing
FX
The Peacemaker
- DreamWorks first live action feature
- VFX train scenes
Windlight Studios, Minneapolis, MN 1995 to 1996
Generalist on the following commercials:
| Ballerina Barbie | Workout Barbie | |
| My Size Princess Barbie | Olympic Gymnast Barbie | |
| Pillbury's Bakeout | Cyberforce |
Lamb & Company, Minneapolis, MN 1992 to 1995
Motion Capture Actor, Modeler
The Incredible Crash Dummies (TV Movie) 1993
Generalist on the following commercials:
| Transformers | Domino's Pizza | |
| Nerf's“Ballzooka” | Monopoly | |
| Target “Rose” | Best Buy | |
| Rainbow Japan “Chain” | Keebler's “Munch'ems” | |
| Tyko's “X-treme Racing” and “Ricochet” |
Computer Skills
Applications: Katana, RenderMan, Torch and Light (Dreamworks proprietary lighting tools), Nuke, Photoshop, Premiere, Maya, Autodesk Inventor, Lightroom, Illustrator, Substance Painter, Unreal Engine & Unity.
Platforms: Linux, UNIX, Windows, iOS
Past familiarity with various scripting languages
Education
Graduate Studies in Industrial Design at ACAD, The Ohio State University, OH
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Computer Graphics, Syracuse University, NY
Languages
English: Native language
Spanish: Native language
Activities and Interests
Video Games (Xbox 360 & One, PS/3), Puppetry, Shiba-inus, Gardening, Maker, Film, Computers Graphics
Demo reel: https://vimeo.com/119730022