KATE GABRIEL - LIGHTING TD / NUKE COMPOSITOR
Kate was born in the Czech Republic but currently she lives in London, where she works as a Lighting Technical Director (TD) and a Nuke Compositor on a TV series.
She started working in production in 2011 on a full CG stereoscopic feature film - Legends of Valhalla Thor at studio CAOZ in Iceland.
While she was finishing her Master studies in Fine Arts, she was working as a freelance Lighting TD / Generalist.
She worked for several companies in Finland on various projects including product design, ArchViz and commercials.
One of her achievements is to be awarded as an Artist of a month by Autodesk Area. Also she was nominated to be an Artist of a year.
In the UK she is a Chair of a non profit organisation London ACM Siggraph, which is aiming to connect, promote, and inform the London Computer Graphics industry.
She is also a production manager of the annual VFX conference Splash in Prague.
Kate is a very positive person and enjoys working in a team. She is very passionate about her work and very organised. Her dream is to become a Postproduction Supervisor one day.
Software skills:
3D softwares: Maya, Softimage, Mudbox
Renderers: Arnold, Redshift, Mental Ray
Compositing: Nuke, Adobe Premiere
Scripting: Maya + python
Other: Adobe Photoshop, Sketchbook Pro,
Auto CAD, In-design