Brian Danker's

-Summary-
Computer Graphics Artist with experience in the film and game industries.

-Experience-

Electronics Arts / Visceral Games (2014, 2017 - Present) Redwood City, Ca

Senior Lighting Artist

Responsible for lighting game cinematics and levels.
Manipulation and placement of light sources, shadows, probes, reflection volumes, fog particles, and materials to light characters

and environments using the Frostbite Engine.
Adjustments of post processing, color grading, exposure, SSAO, bloom, tone mapping, etc.
Lighting implemented for PC, XBOX one, PS4 platforms, and next gen consoles.
Worked to reach the visual targets defined by art direction while staying within performance budget.
Optimized lighting rigs for Xbox 360 and PS3 platforms

Games as a Lighting Artist:

PDI / Dreamworks (1997 - 2013) Redwood City, Ca

Senior Lighting Artist

Worked collaboratively with Art Directors and VFX Supervisor in daily rounds to achieve their creative vision.
Created and developed lighting rigs using pre-visualization artwork as reference.
Used production and proprietary tools to manipulate lights, shadows, and materials to light shots.
Responsible for the composition of all layers in a scene into the final image.
Innovated new techniques for lighting unique sequences.
Maintained lighting continuity between shots in a sequence.
Optimized shots for efficient rendering times.
Interacted heavily with the FX Department to integrate their assets into shots.
Communicated with CG Supervisor to identify and resolve paint fix issues.
Managed different versions of movie files for Editorial reviews.

Films as a Lighting Artist:

Lighting Technical Director

Set up initial shots in the pipeline for the Lighting Department.
Worked on technical solutions to lighting challenges driven by the creative needs of production.
Provided support and development of procedures which enhanced the production pipeline.
Solved technical and rendering issues for Lighting Artists.
Optimized shots for the render farm.
Wrote utility scripts to assist Lighting Artists with production issues.
Tested monthly software patches before releasing to production.
Monitored and assisted in resource disk management.

Films as a Lighting Technical Director:

Lead Layout Artist

Interpreted story boards to generate shots within animation pipeline.
Worked with Directors and Layout Supervisor to set up cameras for each sequence.
Responsible for construction of digital environment and set dressing.
Designed and built character skeletons and animation controls for layout characters.
Animated and blocked layout characters for camera approval.
Interacted with Editorial Department to maintain sequence updates.
Provided ongoing support to the Character Animation Department for technical issues.

Films as a Layout Artist:

Developed a 64 bit M2 Console game title.
Integrated a clipping engine for collisions of game assets.
Built a system layer interface for encapsulating M2 triangle engine instructions.
Designed and implemented user interface for game prototype.
Designed and implemented control pad interface and Font API.

Sun Microsystems Corporation (1994, Summer), Mountain View, Ca

Graphics Engineering Intern

-Education-

University Of California, Davis (1995, June)
Bachelor of Science
Double Major in Computer Engineering and Electrical Engineering

-Skills-

Applications	Languages	Environments

Maya/Mental Ray	HTML	PC
Nuke	CSS	Linux
DreamWorks Lighting Software
DreamWorks Animation Software
Frostbite Engine
Adobe Photoshop