Julian Laing
Animator & VFX Artist

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Contact Details
Ph. 07812735506
julian_laing@yahoo.co.uk
www.julianlaing.com.
 
 

Profile

Character Animator & VFX Artist with almost 9 years experience in the Computer Games Industry and 1 year in the Television Industry. Strong artistic background with experience in traditional animation. Experienced in producing in-game and cutscene character animations. Also experienced in producing a variety of VFX, character rigging and skinning and I have also worked with motion capture data. I aim to continue to improve my animation and technical skills within a creative environment.

 
 

Employment History

August 2009 - Now   -  Impossible TV

My first project in Television working on the childrens TV series Gaspard & Lisa. Initially did some modelling and texturing in pre-production. Subsequently have done character animation, lipsynching, layout and shot fixing for 2nd pass and final HD renders ready for broadcast.

May 2006 – June 2009   -  Outerlight

I worked as the sole VFX artist for the critically acclaimed pc game The Ship and as a character animator and VFX artist for its soon-to-be-released sequel A Bloody Good Time. I tailored my work to fit the cartoony style in both games whish required some very quirky VFX and some amusing animations in addition to the more regular work.  I also did further VFX work and character animation for anticipated future projects.

May 2005 – April 2006  -  DC Studios

Continued to work on the State Of Emergency licence this time taking on the role of lead animator through to completion of the project. I took on all the responsibilities associated with that position; I supervised an overhaul of key sections of the game and headed a team of 4 animators. In addition to further character and cutscene animation I also took on responsibility for VFX production.

August 2000 – April 2005  -  Vis Entertainment

The vast majority of my work was as a character animator on a number of projects, i-race for which I was the sole animator and which also included working with motion capture data, Evil Dead; A Fistful Of Boomstick which in addition to character animation I produced and was responsible for the VFX, Brave and SOE2 for which I have also produced a number of cutscenes as well as in game animations.

June – September 1998
June – September 1999  -  VT Design

Worked as a 3D character animator on interactive presentations, and also did some 2D animation for websites. This job was work experience while I was at University.

 
 

Skills

8 years professional experience with Maya

Over 10 years experience using Photoshop

Currently working with 3D Studio Max, 1 year recent professional experience

Good knowledge of Adobe Premiere with some professional experience

Recent working knowledge gained using Dreamweaver

MEL, Flash, MotionBuilder, Softimage – Basic knowledge, no recent work with Softimage.

 

 
 

Education & Qualifications

Bachelor of Design(hons) Animation & Electronic Media
gained at Duncan Of Jordanstone College of Art, 1997-2000

HND Graphic Design/Illustration
gained at Dundee College. 1992-1995

School Grades: 5 Highers, 4 Standard Grades, 4 O-Grades

 

 
 

Hobbies & Interests

Long distance running, including entering 10ks, half-marathons and various other distances, occasionally run for charity.
Wide ranging interest in the cinema including arthouse films and animation.
I like to travel and I speak fairly fluent conversational Spanish and slightly less fluent German.

 

 
 
References
Peter Scott
Managing Director, Impossible TV
07803050525
peter.scott@impossibletv.com
Chris Peck
Managing Director, Outerlight
01314543777 or 07718863188
chris.peck@outerlight.com
 
 

 

Paul Munro
Lead Animator, Travellers Tales
07743761245
pmunro@t-tales.com