Brian Rossney

Creative Director @Red Spider Studios

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Red Spider Studios has continued to deliver high-quality creative content, maintaining its position in the industry. The team's innovative approach and commitment to excellence have resulted in significant client satisfaction and increased business growth. However, there is potential for further expansion. By leveraging emerging technologies and trends, such as virtual and augmented reality, we can broaden our market reach and diversify our product offerings. Additionally, enhancing our digital marketing strategies will help us attract new clients and retain existing ones. It's also crucial to invest in continuous staff training and development to foster creativity and innovation, ensuring we remain competitive in the ever-evolving creative industry.

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Work Background

Red SpiderCreative Director

Sep. 2023Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Red Spider'LOST GIRL' Unreal Engine Artist/Creative Director

Jan. 2021 - Sep. 2023Dublin City, County Dublin, IrelandUnreal Engine Short Film Lost Girl is the 2nd Short Film using the Unreal Engine for animation, Scene Building and Rendering Following the production of 'Apetito' where the engine was production tested under a strict time frame of 40 hours within a 7 day time frame, I'm putting more R & D time into the performance and cinematography. - Ciaran Kavanagh ISC is now on board as Cinematographer. Having worked on many VFX intensive projects, 'Lost Girl is Ciaran's foray into directing the photography an animation. - Markerless Facial Motion Capture is now being used alongside Metahumans. All characters have been custom designed and tested successfuly within the engine. - We are working towards porting the project over to Unreal 5 once it goes to Beta

Rossney PicturesFilm & Commercials Director

Nov. 2009 - Sep. 2023dublinClients include: Peroni - Director, Producer & Post-Production Paddy Power - Director, Producer & Post-Production Spotlight - Multiple spots online. Director, Producer & Post-Production Clearbraces TV commercials. Director, Producer & Post-Production

Rossney PicturesOwner

Nov. 2009 - Sep. 2023IrelandClients include: RTE - Motion Graphics Designer for News & Current Affairs Disney - Motion Graphics Designer for Feature Film Hallmark - Visual Effects Supervisor for Feature Film 'As luck would have it' - 135 shots. Netflix - Compositor & VFX Producer for Feature Film 'Jiu-Jitsu - 485 shots Kodaline - Live Action Director & Creative Director for concert, featuring support acts. VOD Facebook - Motion Graphics Designer for Facebook digital signage PayPal - Live action Director & Motion Graphic Designer for Multi-Time Zone broadcast. Indeed - Creative Director & Live Action Director, Motion Graphics Designer CBS - Documentary Series Editor 'Irelands Worst Crimes' v Stream Digital Media - Compositor/Consultant. Reducing working hours by 30% on an intensive post-production/vfx pipeline by implementing automation through coding. Wexford County Council/Zanzibar Film - Film Director (Drama)

Rossney PicturesVisual Effects Artist

Nov. 2009 - Sep. 2023IrelandAs VFX Artist, VFX Supervisor and VFX Producer, I worked on the following Commercials -Clearbraces TV commercials and online content Keying, tracking, compositing, editing, colour grading, sound mixing and motion graphics. Software used were: Adobe After Effects (Compositing + Motion Graphics) Mocha Pro (Roto & Tracking), Adobe Premier Pro, (Editing & Grading) 'In the Valley of the Moon' A 12 minute short film where 85 of the 135 shots required rotoscoping. VFX Generalist September 2014 - March 2015 There was approximately 9 minutes of rotoscoping in total. Software used were: Adobe After Effects (Compositing) Mocha Pro (Roto & Tracking), Adobe Premier Pro, (Editing & Grading) Nuke X(Camera Tracking + 3D DMP) 'Killers Within' Feature Film - Netflix VFX Artist - Feb 2017- May 2017 Animating Car Crash Sequence Animating a car crash in Maya, VFX plate photography. Building a HDRI from location to use as base lighting in Maya. Used Maya particle system for debris and Arnold for rendering 4K multi-pass. Jiu-Jitsu - Feature Film - Netflix VFX Producer & Compositor/Roto artist - August 2019 - January 2020 Responsible for managing the work on 135 VFX shots. In charge of bidding, costing, hiring and tracking of shots. Managed to deliver more shots, ahead of time and within budget. Originally bid on 85 shots. Software used Autodesk Flame (compositing) Adobe After Effects & Mocha Pro (Rotoscoping) FTrack & Frame io for project tracking and review As Luck would have it - Feature Film - Hallmark Channel VFX Supervisor - March 2021 - May 2021 Originally bid on 5 DMP shots. Involving Photo surveys to augment castles and resurfacing them. Digital Matte painting set extension. Was instead required to do 140+ beauty shots. Delivered ahead of schedule and on budget. One very happy client Software used: After Effects (Compositing) Autodesk Flame (Compositing) Mocha Pro (Tracking + Roto)

PacktBook Author

Oct. 2021 - Aug. 2023London, England, United KingdomI've just embarked on a journey to create the ultimate step by step guide to character design and animation within Unreal 5. This comprehensive book will serve both experienced studio professionals and novices who need to get up and running and gain a solid understanding of high fidelity character design and performance capture. Aimed at film makers and game developers, the reader will accomplish their own unique character designs and their own motion capture at various levels of budgets utilising mocap suits to Web cams. Students, artists and seasoned professionals will all gain insightful practical tutorials that they can apply to their own projects.

RTEDesigner

Jan. 2019 - Oct. 2021Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland- Providing motion graphics, editing & VFX for RTE News, Prime Time, and Promos.

Dublin City UniversityAdvance Video Production Lecturer

Feb. 2020 - Apr. 2021Dublin, County Dublin, IrelandLecturer in Advanced Video Production & Animation. I rewrote the curriculum giving more focus on industry practices and standards Despite starting my University lecturing experience in the classroom, halfway through the curriculum we were all locked down due to Covid-19. Despite this, the course continued without a hitch and I received stellar feedback.

Dublin City University3D Animation Lecturer Assistant

Jan. 2021 - Mar. 2021Dublin, County Dublin, IrelandAssistant to the animation lecturer by introducing 3D animation to replace the stop motion module which wasn't practical during a Covid-19 lockdown.

Rossney Pictures'Apetito' - Unreal Engine Artist

Sep. 2019 - Oct. 2019Dublin City, County Dublin, IrelandUnreal Engine Short Film This was a research project utilising the Unreal engine to produce a 1 minute short film having used the Unreal Engine as a previz tool in a previous film. -Created an opportunity to production test the following principles: - Modelling in Maya and exporting 3D assets for animation within the engine - Animating in Unreal using Sequencer - Lighting entirely within in the Unreal Engine - Editing shaders, using a PBR workflow within Unreal and texture/shader writing using the Substance Designer Unreal engine workflow - Landscape modelling and texturing - Environment Design - Motion Capture Editing and retargeting The goal was to produce a 1 minute animated short film in no more than a standard working week (40 hours) The goal was reached and in addition, the end result was a 4K render. The main outcome was to identify that Unreal was a feasible production tool beyond what I had previously used it for.

Paddy Power BetfairProducer, Film Director & Videographer

Oct. 2010 - Dec. 2016Dublin, Ireland- Produced and directed promotional content for the multiple business channels of Paddy Power Betfair for the international Market. - Managed the Video Production Team. - Researched & wrote business proposal for CEO which allowed me to design and build a large, fully functional greenscreen studio for Live Broadcast at the Paddy Power HQ in Dublin. - Provided post-production and VFX on Paddy Power & Betfair TV Commercials. - Produced & Directed weekly show 'Two Foot Tackle' featuring British comedian, Mark Watson and Paddy Power, with an audience of 250k+ Produced and Directed IDI award winning promo for Paddy Power Poker promo, shot by Cathal Watters (Peaky Blinders) - Creative Director on a number of multi-faceted 360 campaigns for Paddy Power Casino, managing creative team for on-line and print deliverables while producing and directing the video content in tandem. Examples, 'Big Dickens', featuring Eric Lalor. This was a home page takeover with a suite of videos, a mailer campaign and associated print work for retail. It gained record views, record acquisition and retention for the holiday period. -Managed a team to build Apple Store preview and instructional videos for a host of Apps. -Worked directly alongside Product Development, B2B + B2C P & L managers, developing marketing strategies and was in charge and lead production. - Worked directly with CEO, Head of Product Development, Head of Paddy Power.com, Head of HR on numerous video communications both locally and globally. -Was video producer on many PR stunts including; Ryan Gigs mailer campaign 300k views + record number of acquisitions (write up in Marketing Weekly) - Produced a very successful promo featuring Robbie Fowler for the Euro's gaining an audience of 350k+ - Operated Cameras, (DSLR's Canon 7D, 5D, GH4, RED Dragon, BM URSA, Arri Alexa) - Lit exterior and interior sets. - Operated Live vision mixing desk in purpose built TV studio - Operated Movi + Ronin Rigs

Paddy Power BetfairEditor TV & Radio Advertising

Oct. 2010 - Dec. 2016County Dublin, IrelandFor TV broadcast I animated end boards, edited & graded live action footage, tracked App interfaces into phones and exported master files for delivery to TV networks in both Ireland and the U.K Software used was: Adobe Premier for Editing DaVinci Resolve for Colour Grading Nuke X for phone screen replacement Adobe After Effects for motion graphics and also for phone screen replacement. Radio edits were recorded and mixed in Pro Tools and Adobe Encore

Paddy Power BetfairCreative Director

Oct. 2010 - Dec. 2016Ireland

Setanta SportsPromo Producer

May. 2010 - Oct. 2010Ireland- Worked as Freelancer Promo Producer - Provided video editing, motion graphics, 3D modeling animation & 2D/3D compositing for the launching of a new TV channel called Zula in Africa. - Technology Used: 3D Studio Max and After Effects

Kavaleer ProductionsFilm Editor

Dec. 2009 - May. 2010Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland- Edited 12 episodes of BBC's Garth & Bev children's film animation. - Technologies Used: Final Cut Pro

Lotus FilmsSenior Designer

Jan. 2007 - Mar. 2009Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland- Supervised in-house Junior Designers and Freelance VFX artists/animators. - Produced and directed live-action TV commercials and broadcast content.

Maxtron MediaPromo Producer

Jan. 2006 - Dec. 2007Dublin, IrelandProducing movie trailers and Network Promos for broadcast on movie and Sports Channels on Sky. This entailed writing VO's. Scheduling VO & music sessions. Off-line & on-line editing. In addition to this I designed and created 3d animated network idents and produced a number of commercials.

ProVizFreelance 3D Artist

Aug. 2005 - Oct. 2005Galway, County Galway, IrelandResponsible for modelling up 3D models from Autocad using 3ds max. Tasked with implementing Renderman and real-time raytracing hardware into the production pipeline.

Star Cave Studios3D Environment Artist

Mar. 2005 - Aug. 2005Galway, County Galway, IrelandEnvironment Artist responsible for modelling and texturing all architectural assets for FPS game. Additional tasks undertaken were setting up all collision detection and LOD's. Testing the gameplay and collision detection. Optimizing assets for faster compiling and frame rate. Tools used: Torque 3D Engine 3ds Max Photoshop

Ardmore StudiosVisual Effects Artist

Mar. 2004 - Feb. 2005Wicklow, County Wicklow, IrelandLead VFX Artist on film. Plate supervisor. Co founder of Digital Aura, a vfx company based in Armore Studios, Bray. Digital Aura, primarily focused on 3D Digital matte painting. Environment art and was one of the first vfx facilities in Europe to be fully set-up in HD and 2K delivery in 2005.

Galway Film Centre - GMITFilm & Video Technician

Aug. 2001 - Mar. 2003GalwayManaged Film & Television equipment for rental. Specialized in maintenance and consultancy on post-production equipment for GMIT. Lectured GFC members in 3D animation and video editing. Created 3d animated TV and Theatrical commercial for Galway FIlm Fleadh 2001. Was Patron to Galway Film Fleadh 2001

Piranha BarGraphic Designer

Jan. 1999 - Dec. 2001IrelandBroadcast engineering. Roto-scoping. Match moving, image stitching. 3d. Softimage & 3DS Max. Camera and lighting for green screen plates. Studio management & equipment rental. Support artist to senior Flame & Inferno artists. HAL artist