Milton E Rodriguez-Rios

Half Moon Bay, CA • 650-678-8462 • miltoneuripides@gmail.com

CG Supervisor

CG Supervisor in Lighting with 15 years in animated feature production. Current with ever-changing tool-sets, techniques and work-flows. Trusted leader and mentor both technically and artistically, guiding teams and working on complex shots. Go to Supervisor for sequences with large volume of shots and complex components including multiple environments. FX, and Crowds. Consistently providing high quality work, under quota with minimum amount of artistic supervision.

  • Responsible for translating the Director, Production Designer and VFX Supervisor vision into complex fully realized lighting for feature animation sequences.
  • Offered 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
  • Mentored artists to provide guidance and insight, and growth for their individual development
  • Optimized characters for faster interactive lighting and rendering
  • Co-created Visual Development environment to keep character’s lighting and shader networks consistent.
  • Casting shots/staff talent on show in order to achieve balanced teams, including cross-site teams in India
  • Bidding sequences from story boards or final layout, provide alternative cost cutting approaches
  • Optimized and cleaned up legacy characters with Surfacing Supervisor, reducing interactive and farm rendering times by more than 60%
  • 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 mentor ship for University outreach programs with student lighters at various schools

Work Experience

PDI/DreamWorks, Redwood City, CA    1996 to Present

 

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

Merry Madagascar (TV Short)     

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

Commercial Work


 

Windlight Studios, Minneapolis, MN    1995 to 1996

 

Generalist on the following commercials:

Ballerina Barbie            Workout Barbie,

My Size Princess Barbie     Olympic Gymnast Barbie,

Pillsbury's Bakeout        Cyberforce

 

Lamb & Company, Minneapolis, MN    1992 to 1995

Motion Capture Actor and 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”,

Tyko's “X-treme Racing” and “Ricochet”

Keebler's “Munch'ems”


 

Computer Skills

Applications: Torch and Light(DW propietary lighting tools), Nuke, Photoshop, Premiere

Maya, Autodesk Inventor, Lightroom, Illustrator

Platforms: Linux, UNIX, Windows7, Mac

 

Education

Graduate Studies in Industrial Design at ACAD, The Ohio State University, OH    

BFA in Computer Graphics, Syracure University, NY

 

Languages

English: Native language

Spanish: Native language

 

Activities and Interests

Video Games (Xbox360, PS3), Puppetry, Shiba-inus, Gardening, Maker, Computers, Film

 

References

Available upon request