Douglas Yoshida

CG lighting/rendering of high resolution in-store imagery for a major tech company

• Look development lead on Stranger Things (season 4), Extraction 2, Ahsoka, and Agatha All Along
• Built shading networks for photorealistic CG humans, vehicles and props
• Setup show templates in Houdini/Solaris and Nuke
• Wrote custom python Solaris nodes to make lookdev workflow more efficient
• Conducted interviews and voted on hiring of prospective candidates.

• CG lighting of product animations for a major tech company

• Lighting and compositing of products for Apple's website and product packaging including iPhone Apple Watch, Mac Pro, AirPods Max and AirPods Pro
• Acted as a liaison between lighting and the tech team to test, R&D, and document new lighting workflows/pipeline and tools

• Sequence lead lighting on the Marvel films Spiderman Homecoming, Thor Ragnarok, and Black Panther
• Helped transition the studio from a Maya to a Katana multi-shot lighting pipeline
• Created master Katana lighting templates
• Worked with the dev team on development and testing of new pipeline tools.

• Look development of digital human heads for Fate of the Furious
• Lighting lead on digital doubles sequences and lighting on final ice chase sequence.
• Created templates to standardize rendering within Maya

• Lighting and Compositing on Hotel Transylvania 2, The Angry Birds Movie, and Storks.

• Lighting and compositing on Monsters vs Aliens, Shrek Forever After, Megamind, Puss and Boots, Madagascar 3, Rise of the Guardians, Turbo, Penguins of Madagascar, and Home.