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Brian Cofano

San Francisco,CA

Overview

2
2
years of professional experience

Work History

Lighting Artist

Outpost VFX
02.2022 - 01.2023
  • Maya and Houdini lighter for numerous shows/features.

Lead VFX Artist

Game Design Studio At University Of Silicon Valley
02.2022 - 04.2022
  • Created real-time VFX and environmental lighting for 2.5D platformer, Sapple Grapple.
  • Collaborated with artists and game designers in the design of weapon projectiles, environmental hazards, and lighting color themes.

Lighting Artist

Project X At University Of Silicon Valley
01.2021 - 06.2022
  • Main Character and environmental lighting for short film, Room to Grow, 2022.
  • Collaborated with Animators to input fixture profiles, colors, effects, and movement for cues.

Lead Rigger

Project X
12.2020 - 06.2021
  • Worked on 3D promotional video for Diamanti, inc.
  • Accomplished all rigged characters and assets for Diamanti's promotional video.
  • Used MAYA to create IK/FK rigs, as well as procedural dynamics.

Education

Bachelor's - Digital Arts And Animation: Technical Art

University of Silicon Valley (formerly Cogswell)
San Jose
2021

Skills

  • Maya- Lighting, Character/Object Rigging MASH, Dynamics, VFX, Procedural Texturing, Shading, Rendering in Arnold/Renderman/VRay, Scripting in Python/MEL
  • Houdini- Lighting, Layout
  • Nuke- Compositing,Color Grading, 2D/3D Tracking, Rotoscoping
  • Unreal- Lighting, Shading, Realtime VFX, Basic Workflow
  • Adobe After Effects- Compositing, Keying, Optical Flares

Accomplishments

  • Created rigs for multiple games during the Game Developers Conference (GDC) sponsored Game Jam.
  • Received the Joint Services Award Medal (JSAM) in 2014 for outstanding leadership in the pathology lab and creating an autopsy log to assure near 100% accountability in the morgue at the Presidential Hospital located in Bethesda, Maryland.

Portfolio

briancofano.artstation.com

Credits

  • Star Trek Picard: Season 3
  • 1923
  • Avatar: The Last Airbender (Netflix Series)
  • Extraction 2

Additional Skills

  • Shotgrid/Shotgun
  • Unity
  • Blender
  • Photoshop
  • Perforce
  • Smedge
  • Color Theory
  • Traditional Art
  • Troubleshooting

Timeline

Lighting Artist

Outpost VFX
02.2022 - 01.2023

Lead VFX Artist

Game Design Studio At University Of Silicon Valley
02.2022 - 04.2022

Lighting Artist

Project X At University Of Silicon Valley
01.2021 - 06.2022

Lead Rigger

Project X
12.2020 - 06.2021

Bachelor's - Digital Arts And Animation: Technical Art

University of Silicon Valley (formerly Cogswell)

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