MARTIN LIPMANN

Having devoted the past 20 years of my professional life in improving my vision of the Visual Effects industry as a digital artist and Visual Effects Supervisor, I was given the opportunity to work on projects in Paris, London, Melbourne, Adelaide and Montreal.

A multimedia devotee from the start, I undertook classes in history of arts and archeology at the Paris Sorbonne University, completed with hypermedia studies at Paris VIII University and graduated with a New Technologies Master’s Diploma. Also a music buff, I jointly studied for several years at the Paris Agostini School of Percussion. 

I then began a professional career in 1995 as a pioneer web-designer for one of the first French startups, creating for such companies as Taittinger Champagne and Lancôme Perfumes.

Co-founder of “Mosaïques du Monde”, a non-profit organization intended to the teaching of communication technologies to children in French-speaking countries, I spent the year 1998 in West Africa. In a small bus, with three university buddies, we drove from Paris to Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso, Togo, the Ivory Coast and Benin, where we introduced the basics of new multicultural technologies in French-speaking classes.

Upon return, I was given the opportunity to join “Cirque 360”, a traveling circus enterprise, where I confronted my knowledge of new technologies with the basic fact of live performances. This resulted in the development of an on-line entertainment platform integrating actor and acrobat performances to electronic communication systems.

EXPERTISE:
- Team leader (50 to 200 people).
- Script production breakdown and bidding.
- Pre-production and on-set :Visual Effects shots designing and consulting. Work closely with directors, directors of photography and set designers.
- On-set supervision, 2nd unit / VFX unit director, experience in aerial photography.
- Digital Artist supervisor / Senior digital artist.

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AWARD WINNING PROJECTS:

- Nominated at the Annie Awards 2024 : Outstanding FX in an Animated Feature.

- Nominated Primetime Emmy 2017 : Outstanding Visual Effects for Black Sails Season 4.
- Won Canadian Screen Awards 2017 : Achievement in Visual Effects for the Jessie Owens biopic “Race”.
- Nominated at the Gala Quebec Cinema, Prix Iris 2017 : Achievement in Visual Effects for the Jessie Owens biopic “Race”.
- Won HPA Awards 2017 : Outstanding Visual Effects for Black Sails Season 4.
- Won Prix Créa 2009 : Prix Artisan - Rona Campaign for Montreal’s Shed Inc, for the
2010 Vancouver Olympics national and local campaigns. (15 commercials
delivered).