Leigh van der Byl must never sleep. She has achieved so much in the first five years of her career it is impossible to contemplate where she will end up. Leigh is recognized throughout the CG Community as an accomplished artist of texturing and rendering. Currently working at CafeFX in California as a 3D Artist, her credits include The Aviator and Sin City, as well as a few upcoming features.
Beginning in Cape Town in 2000, Leigh has worked on a string of feature film, television commercial, music video and documentary projects for various clients both in her native South Africa as well as abroad. Leigh has taught Photoshop, texture painting and 3D texturing as well as digital video editing, digital compositing and supervised stop motion animation projects at Universal Computer Arts Academy and Mactrain Multimedia College in South Africa.
In 2004 Leigh published LightWave 3D 8 Texturing and was a contributing author to LightWave 3D 8: 1001 Tips and Tricks. She has written articles on texturing for Key Frame and 3D World Magazine and has self-published numerous articles and tutorials on various industry websites including CGNetworks and her own.
Leigh is well known for her continuing contributions to the CG Community regularly offering technical assistance and advice as well as working on the management team of CGTalk as an Administrator.
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