Stephen Heidelberg Address: 21306 De La Osa St. Woodland Hills, CA 91364 Cell phone: 818-434-4362 website: http://www.steveheidelberg.
com
Education Edinboro University of Pennsylvania BFA, Applied Media Arts 1993 1997 Professional Experience 1) Dreamworks Animation, 2003-Present
Character Effects Technical Director
Hair, feathers, fur, cloth, simulation, rigging, and technical animation. R&D efforts. development tasks. Qualoth, Syflex, Maya Cloth, and Flexo. Maya and Houdini Mel, Perl, and Python Look
Pipeline Technical Director
Pipeline development and support. Provided support and solutions for a crew of 80+. Support and solutions entail 3rd party and proprietary software enhancement and development, pipeline enhancement and support, automation of tedious animation and layout procedures. Python, Perl, and proprietary software.
Matte Painting / TD and Painter
Provided matte paintings, 3D asset modeling, 3D asset texturing and lighting, 3D scene development, cards and camera work, R&D of rendering efforts, sky and dome comps, and much more. Photoshop, Maya, Shake, Nuke, After Effects, proprietary compositor, Mental Ray, and Vue.
Animation Consultant and Trainer
2) ECC International / Cubic Corporation, 2001 2003
Visual Database Engineer
Creative content development for Land and Sea simulation systems which contributed to defense or military training exercises. Creative content entails environment design, character rigging and animation, vehicle design and generation, ballistic look and visual effects, and software interface design and development. Further responsibilities entailed system testing. Multigen, Photoshop, and Maya
3) Hakuhodo Inc., 2000 2001
Lead Developer/Designer
Provided design and user experience expertise to develop homepage and website user experience. In addition, I mentored junior artists on techniques. HTML, Java, Perl, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Flash, and Premiere
4) ImagineAsia Animation Studios,
Digital Consultant / Digital Art Director
2000 2001
Provided management and training for a crew of 20+ artists within Manila, Philippines. The primary Los Angeles based studio, Virtual Magic, wanted me to develop 3D outsourcing talent in the Philippines. The development of talent required me to transition 2D trained artist with the developing 3D pipeline. XSI, Maya, Softimage 3D, and Photoshop
5) Full Sail University, 1998 2000
Storyboard Course Director and Computer Animation Instructor
Wavefront, Softimage 3D, XSI, Maya, Lightwave, After Effects, Premiere, Avid, Quantel, PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Outlook, Publisher, Access, and more
6) Vision Media Group, 1996 1997
Computer Animator
Lightwave and Photoshop
Stephen Heidelberg Address: 21306 De La Osa St. Woodland Hills, CA 91364 Cell phone: 818-434-4362 website: http://www.steveheidelberg.com
Credits (film and television)
Puss N Boots Kung Fu Panda 2 Shrek 4 Monsters Verses Aliens Bee Movie Over The Hedge Madagasgar 2 Shrek 2 Sharktale Star Bucks Hewlett Packard Toyota KFP Holiday Special Channel Lock Tools Delphi
