Stephen V. Hwan

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Sequence Lead or Lead Lighter/Compositor on a film.

Oct '07 - Sep '08: Lighting Artist, Walt Disney Feature Animation (WDFA) BOLT
Jul '05 - Feb '07: Lead Lighter, WDFA Meet the Robinsons
May '02 - Jul '05: Look Dev Technical Director(TD)/Lighting Artist, WDFA Chicken Little
Nov '00 - Mar '02: Look Dev/Effects TD, WDFA Treasure Planet: Compositing/color correction, RenderMan Shader contributions, Lighting, Render Pipeline
Sep '00 - Nov '00: TD(all kinds), WDFA One by One (animated short): Integrated and customized rigs for effects elements(Houdini, Maya, MEL, Perl), wrote RenderMan shaders, Photoshop texture touch-up.
Sep '00 - Oct '00: Effects Animator, WDFA Wonderful World of Disney: (new opening sequence) Animated pixie dust particle trails in Maya.
Oct '99 - Feb '00: Software TD, WDFA Mission to Mars (uncredited): Acted as liason between artists and software for the vortex sequence using the in-house particle system ("Hookah"). Work involved fixing bugs, reimplementing some features, and instructing the artists in the use of obscure features.
Dec '97 - Oct '99: Muscle/Skin TD, WDFA Dinosaur: Involved simulation of muscle and skin systems of dinosaurs on production scenes in Maya, fixing modeling, rendering, and render queue problems, streamlining/automating the pipeline.
Sept '95 - Dec '97:Software TD, WDFA Dinosaur: Herd/crowd simulator/editor, wrote Maya plugins for muscle system and internal geometry converters.

2001	Major Damage (anim short)	Better Mousetrap Productions	Lighter, Physiquing TD
2000	Gemini Man (test)	Disney Feature Animation	Lighting/Shading TD
2000	Wild Life (project canceled)	Disney Feature Animation	Muscle/Skin/Clothing TD
2000	Eliza (In Progress, live action)	USC	Still Photographer
2000	My Chorus (live action short)	USC	Gaffer
1999	Oil and Vinegar (anim short)	Pipsqueak Films	Animator,Lighter, Rigging TD,Shading TD
1997	Hercules	Disney Feature Animation	software support (uncredited)
1995	(Technologies)	R/Greenberg Associates - LA	Software Engineer

Maya (character setup, Lighting, Rendering, MEL, C++ API)
Shake, RenderMan (shaders, RIB hacking), MTOR
10+ years Perl, 2 years Perl/Tk
20+ years programming experience, 11+ years C, A couple years of C++ under duress (Maya, OpenInventor).

Theatre Americana: crew, stage managing, rehearsal pianist, Business Manager ('92-'93), Secretary ('94-'97)
LA SIGGRAPH Membership Secretary ('96-'97), Membership Chair ('97-'98), Records Comptroller ('98-'01)
SIGGRAPH Courses Reviewer ('99-'06), Courses Jury/Sr Reviewer('01, '02, '04)