CURRICULUM VITAE

Daniel Canfora
dan@canfora.co.uk
www.canfora.co.uk/dan

QUALIFICATIONS

I hold a degree in Computer Visualization and Animation from Bournemouth University.

AWARDS

HBOs’ Rome Season 1

• Emmy award for Outstanding Special Visual Effects For A Series 2007
• VES nominated for Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Broadcast Program 2008
• VES award for Outstanding Visual Effects for TV Series 2006
• BAFTA nominated for best Visual Effects 2006

HBOs’ Rome Season 2

• Emmy award for Outstanding Special Visual Effects For A Series 2008

EMPLOYMENT

April 2010 – Present Day Senior Environment TD, Cinesite

May 2009 – April 2010 Lead Environment TD, Framestore, 19-23 Wells St, London, W1T 3PQ

Projects:

• Clash of the Titans

Software Used: Maya 2009, Photoshop CS4, Shake, Nuke, Mental Ray, Renderman, various in house tools.

August 2008 – April 2009 CG Supervisor, The Senate VFX, Twickenham Film Studios, The Barons, St Margarets, TW1 2AW

Projects:

• The Hessen Affair
• Shanghai
• Angels & Demons

Software Used: Maya 2009, Photoshop CS4, Shake, Realflow, After Effects, PFTrack, Boujou

Responsibilities:

• Working with the VFX Supervisor, leads and Heads of Departments, define the creative and technical approach for the show.
• Work with Production to manage the day to day running of the team.
• Work with Production to evaluate artist schedules insuring they are realistic and achievable.
• Attend desk rounds with all members of the team on a regular basis.
• Attend dailies sessions with the team to give feedback / approvals.
• Meet with the Leads on the show on a regular basis to identify inefficiencies or technical problems with the tool set and pipeline, and put in place a plan of action to resolve such issues.
• Knowledge of the entire production process, including stage shooting is preferred.
• Pitch for future jobs by doing tests, previz and working out bidding schedules.
• Interview potential 3D artists.
• General responsibility for all aspects of the 3D department.

March 2008 – August 2008 CG supervisor, Unit, 16 Carlisle Street, London, W1D 3BT

August 2007 – March 2008 Environment/Lighting TD, The Moving Picture Company, 127 Wardour Street, London, W1F 0NL

Projects:

• Sweeney Todd
• The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

Software Used: Maya 7.5, Photoshop CS2, Shake plus a range on in house software

Responsibilities:

• Lighting and rendering final shots to the highest standard possible.
• Working closely with all 3D departments and compositors to deliver the final image.

March 2007 – August 2007 Generalist TD, Men From Mars, Unit 6 Walpole Court, Ealing Green, Ealing, London, W5 5ED

Projects:

• Mutant Chronicles

Software used: Softimage XSI 5.11, Photoshop CS2, After Effects 7

Responsibilities:

• All aspects from previzing a shot to texturing, lighting, shading and rendering shots.

September 2006 – April 2007 VFX Supervisor, “Bad Day”, The Seventh Twelfth Collective

Software used: Maya 7.5, After Effects 7, Shake 3

Responsibilities:

• To oversee the shoot and make sure every VFX scene is shot correctly.
• To advise the director of which VFX are and aren’t possible/practical to do.
• To oversee digital artists to insure all the VFX meet a good standard.

April 2004 – March 2007 Generalist TD, SenateVFX, Twickenham Films Studios, St Margarets, Middlesex, TW1 2AW

Projects:

• Rome series 2
• Da Vinci Code
• Firewall
• The Decameron
• Rome

Responsibilities:

• All aspects of CG covered including 3D tracking, modeling, texturing, shading, lighting, rendering and compositing.

Software used: Maya 6.5/7/8, Photoshop CS/CS2, After Effects 6.5/7, Shake, PFTrack, Boujou 3.0, 3DEqualizer, Linux, Windows, Mac OSX.

December 2003 Animator/Technical Director, Espresso Animation, 5th Floor, 100 Oxford Street, London, W1D 1LN

Freelance artist on Coco Pops commercial and in-house projects.

Software used: Maya, Photoshop, After Effects, Premiere.

June – September 2003 Modeler/Texturer,  2 Rivers Films

Freelance modeling and texturing for a  communications company commercial.

Software used: Maya, Photoshop

2002-2003 Animator, Colony Media

Freelance artist developing characters for Nanobots TV series.

October 2001- March 2004 Animator/Technical Director, Tandem Films, 26 Cross St, London, N1 2BG

Projects:

• CBBC & CBEEBIES idents
• Twixels commercial
• Fairy Liquid commercial
• Cheetos crisps commercial
• Findus Fish Fingers commercial
• Lemon Jelly music promo
• “Dick & Dom” CBBC intro
• MTV funded short film
• Steradent commercial
• Payback Loyalty Card commercials
• Expedia.co.uk commercials
• Kumala Wines idents and commercial

Software used: Maya, Photoshop, After Effects, Premiere.

1998-2001 3D Artist, Tandem Films, 26 Cross St, London, N1 2BG

Projects:

• Rockit Huntington Series backgrounds
• “Leisure TV” Video on Demand graphics

EDUCATION

1998-2001 BA (Hons) Computer Visualization and Animation, Bournemouth University
Three year course which included:

• Maya
• Renderman and Shading Language
• Node based compositing
• C and Unix shell programming

1996-1998 A-Levels:  Art & Design (B), Mathematics (C), Design Technology (B)

REFERENCES

Available upon request.