Henry Bush

CV


General Information

Email: cv@spookypeanut.co.uk
Full driving license held since 1996, clean.
Other personal information withheld from web-based CV for security: email me if you would like a full PDF version.

Employment

Company Position Dates
Framestore Animation Lighting and Pipeline ATD on "The Tale of Despereaux"
  • Design, implementation and maintenance of various pipeline tools in MEL, Python & JDL
  • Troubleshooting lighting pipeline & Renderman issues, and fixing any bugs that may be causing the issues
  • Lighting shots in Maya
  • Shuffling tasks to take into account the shifting priorities in a fast-moving, end-of-production environment
March 2008 - Present
National Centre for Computer Animation, Bournemouth University Demonstrator and Lecturer in Computer Animation
  • Teaching Maya, basic compositing and RenderMan
  • Supervision of third year major projects
  • Assisting students with problem solving in operating systems, programming, scripting and animation software
  • Design, implementation and maintenance of a robust system for archival of NCCA work
Sept 2004 - March 2008

Education

Institution Education and Grades Dates
National Centre for Computer Animation, Bournemouth University MA 3D Computer Animation (Merit)
Used Softimage|XSI, Shake 2.51, Photoshop 6 and Premier Pro 1.5 to produce two short animations: Requiem for a Fish (group project, carried out about 6 months into the course), and Paradigm (masters project). 		Sept 2003 - Sept 2004
University of Southampton PhD, The Preparation of 1,3,6,8-Tetraene Systems for Use as Intramolecular Diels-Alder Substrates in Desymmetrization Reactions
  • Presenting my research regularly to both superiors and peers
  • Teaching undergraduates and postgraduates in both a laboratory and a classroom environment
  • Preparing quarterly reports and formal poster presentations
Sept 1999 - Sept 2003
University of Southampton BSc with Honours, Chemistry with Computer Science (Upper Second Class)
Included Software Tools and Techniques (Bash Scripting, HTML), Advanced Programming (C, C++ & Java) and Computer Graphics (OpenGL)
 Sept 1996 - June 1999
Manchester Grammar School A-levels: Mathematics (A), Further Mathematics (A), Physics (A), Chemistry (A) Sept 1994 - July 1996

Software Literacy

Computer Languages

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Software, Tools and Systems

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Languages

I have conversational French and Russian and have travelled round the respective countries. I have also studied German, Latin, Arabic and Ukrainian.

Other Interests

Adventure Games / Open Source Software

Ever since playing them from an early age, I have loved the interactive film aspect of adventure gaming. Recently I have become involved in the open-source ScummVM project, which is a C++ re-implementation of the engines of several early adventure games. I am the lead developer of a re-implementation of the game engine used in the game "The 7th Guest" that is being produced by disassembling the original executable. The engine is is at a stage that makes the game playable (though not completely stable): code and documentation are available at http://code.google.com/p/t7gre/. I have also assisted the development of other areas of ScummVM by submitting patches to add additional features, as well as finding and helping to fix bugs.

Juggling

I have enjoyed the art of juggling for about ten years, and I was president of the Southampton University Juggling Club for three years. I have performed a number of times at street festivals across the country, but the main reason that I juggle is because I find it relaxing.

Drama

Since attending a weekly theatre workshop at the age of 7 I have been involved in drama. I have acted a number of leading roles (Mort, in "Mort"; Reginald Christie, in "Christie in Love"), but my most enjoyable experience was directing and co-producing a very successful production of "Bouncers" by John Godber.

Referees

Available on request



This document was last updated on Sunday 12 October, 2008.