Antoine RENNUIT 21 Hillview Road 0X20DA Oxford United Kingdom Mobile : 00 44 7 896 743 446 E-mail :
[email protected] Site : www.antoinerennuit.com
PhD in virtual characters animation
French Single Date of Birth : 5 June 1979
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2006 - present
2003 - 2006
NaturalMotion Research engineer Development and implementation of cutting-edge animation algorithms aimed at controlling digital characters for movie special effects (e.g. Poseidon…), and real-time game engines (e.g. LucasArt's next Indiana Jones…). NaturalMotion is a spin-off from Oxford's University. EADS (Airbus’ holding) 3D animation designer Design of algorithms aimed at controlling virtual characters through motion capture in a real-time industrial context. Design of a physical animation engine. Robotics, physics simulation, C++ programming, 3D softwares (3DSmax, Virtools…)… Management of 2 trainees during this period.
2002
ECOLE DES MINES DE DOUAI LABS automatician Implementation of algorithms aimed at automatic stereovision (2D images statistical analysis). Application to automatic car driving. 6 months internship.
2001
AQUILAB
RT 3D programmer
Integration of the OpenGl libraries into a commercial medical software aimed at radiotherapy. 4 months internship.
SKILLS Numerics, graphics, & automation
- Robotics, characters control schemes, physical engines, numerical analysis (basics) - OpenGL, HLSL, illumination & rendering algorithms - Automatic vision, 2D imagery algorithms
Programming
C/C++ (5 years) mostly in visual studio, UML (basics, often used), Matlab
Middleware
Virtools (graphic programming, & SDK), Vortex, Havok
Languages
English (fluently spoken, written, and read) Spanish (school level, not practised for 3 years)
EDUCATION 2003 - 2006
PhD thesis carried out in partnership with EADS (aeronautics, and defence), CEA (french Atomic Energy Center), IRCCyN (Ecole Centrale de Nantes)
2001 - 2002
UT Compiegne : Master of Science in Computer Science and Systems : automatics. Taken while attending the engineering courses.
1998 - 2002
Ecole des Mines de Douai : French school of engineering. Specialized in automatics.
OTHER INTERESTS Sports
Jogging, sailing, kitesurfing, climbing, badminton…
Graphics
3DSmax, Combustion, Photoshop, Flash…
Crafts
Decoration, DIY, drawing, photography…
Culture
Music (listening, and playing a bit the guitar), museums, cinema...
