MICHAEL RICH VFX

Over 18 years industry experience, over 17 years at Industrial Light & Magic, Lucasfilm.

IMDB page  -  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1593160/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
demo reel    -  https://vimeo.com/showcase/6324245   

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Leadership roles on multiple projects, including Lighting Supervisor (San Francisco unit), Sequence Supervisor and Lead Artist.

Helped develop the look for key sequences in several major motion pictures, including Avengers: Infinity War, Transformers: The Last Knight, The Great Wall (2016), Captain America: Civil War

Helped setup and maintain pipelines (rendering and software) and computing environments for Industrial Light and Magic's work on many feature films.

Filled the role and responsibilities of a Senior Technical Director & Lighting Artist for several years while still in a standard Technical Director/Lighting Artist position.

Cross trained, with industry experience, in multiple disciplines: lighting & rendering, technical development, compositing, particle effects, and camera match moving

Member of the Visual Effects Society (VES) -  https://www.visualeffectssociety.com

Currently teaching and mentoring students for more than a year as part of my MFA Thesis work in the Academy of Art University’s StudioX program.

Presented on the state of the visual effects industry at the Silicon Valley Briefing for Consuls General in April 2018, attended by over 40 representatives of Silicon Valley Consulates from around the world.

Presented on the visual effects of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen at a BYU Computer Science Dept Colloquium.