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I am a passionate graduate of Digital Design at Auckland University of Technology majoring in VFX, 3D animation, and motion editing.

 

 

chris.sm.kang542@gmail.com

 

 

 

3D generalist / Motion Graphics. FREELANCE ARTIST.



 

SIGMOID PROJECT

2014 - Current

My Colleague Sun Lee introduced this project, which requires making 12 videos that are going to be displayed in Sigmoid's Coaching app. The entire process was divided in half: pre-production and production are done by Sun, and post-production and sound editing were done by myself. There was a lot of research required to figure out the best method to produce the video Sigmoid wanted. Over the past 6 months, the project has been going, with a lot still to be done.

 

 

ICE PROFESSIONALS

2013 - 2015

 

ICE Professionals has provided the very first industrial work opportunity whilst I was a student. The work was challenging as I was responsible for all elements of the video, from pre to postproduction. ICE enabled me to turn some of my weaknesses into strengths, to which I now feel very confident in. These opportunities developed my filming, photography, and communication skills.

 

 

KOSTA NZ

2012 - 2013

 

KOSTA (Korean Student Abroad) NZ is a global Korean Christian community. I was the main video editor of the Media Team at Kosta, with sole responsibility of editing the final videos to be presented. The photos and videos were edited on the day that were taken, in order to present the video the next night. The amount of work involved in this event rapidly increased my motion graphic skills as well as time management.

 

Motion Capture Cleanup Artist
 

WETA DIGITAL

2015 - 2015

Currently working as a Motion Capture Tracker Role.

 

BRANDSPANK - RUGBY WORLD CUP 2015 COMMERCIAL

2015

Brandspank is asked to conduct video with AUT Motion Capture Team. This was our first trial of taking out motion capture camera from our studio to an outdoor environment.   

 

DARK ROOM - CHIHO AOSHIMA ANIMATED MURAL

2015

This project required a few fairy-like characters to be motion captured by two actresses. Most of their movement has been extraordinary, which caused markers to disappear in certain poses. There were too many missing markers that it was a challenge to virtually replace those markers during clean-up sessions. This project dramatically increased the speed of my workflow on cortex. 

 

FLUX ANIMATION - 25 APRIL

2014 - 2015

One of the best studios in New Zealand, Flux Animation Studio, collaborated with AUT on their animation project using MOCAP devices, Cortex and Cara. A few students from Digital Design course and I were required to assist Motion Capturing process, as well as post-production stage of motion editing. The process required me to learn new software and device, Cara, in order to transfer actor's facial movement.

 

 

Rotoscope Intern

 

CAUSE+FX

2014

 

I have participated at Cause+FX for my Professional Practice paper at AUT. I had trials on rotoscoping a few shots on a shorts they were working on.

HTML/CSS/Javascript

jQuery

Angular JS

Bootstrap

Motion Capture/ Edit

3D key animation

Digital compositing

Rotoscoping

Paint Removal

Match moving

Infographics

Typography

3D Modeling

Character Sculpting

Human IK Rigging

Character Skinning

UV Unwrapping

Blendshapes

Film Editing

 

Skills
Auckland University of Technology. Bachelor of Art and Design.
Digital Design

2012 - 2014



I am a graduate of Digital Design at AUT. I have started learning variety of tools/software since I have attended this course. Mainly, I focus on VFX compositing , 3D animation, Motion Capture. 

 

 

Takapuna Grammar School.

2004 - 2008

 

Software

Nuke X

Silhouette

Autodesk Maya (2012~2015)

Zbrush 4(R2~6)

Giant Tool (Mocap)

Famfit (Face Mocap at Weta Digital)

Headus UV Layout

Crazy Bump

Motion Builder

Vicon Boujou

Vicon Cara (Face Mocap)

Cortex

Realflow

Adobe After Effects

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Indesign

Adobe Lightroom

Adobe Premiere Pro

Final Cut Pro X

 

 

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