Daniele Tosti is a creative Supervisor, developer and manager with over 20 years of production experience in various fields of the entertainment business.
Covering multiple Production roles, such as CG Supervisor, Art Director, Lighting Supervisor, LookDev Lead, and Lead Technical Director, he has led and managed large teams to successful deadlines in various production types: from video games, to broadcast television and theatrically released feature films.
During this period Daniele contributed to Productions for some of the most distinguished and internationally recognized studios and facilities between wich: Walt Disney Pictures, Sony Pictures Imageworks, Universal Pictures, Weta Digital, Moving Picture Company, Seneca Colleges, 20th Century FOX, Warner Bros, Marvel Studios, DC Entertainment.

In 2001 he was awarded as one of the fifty most recognized Maya developers by French magazine: Pixelcreation. Daniele has since been managing, training, and educating artists around the world through ReelMatters’ seminars and publications for organizations such as InCG, VFX World, Autodesk Alias, Highend3D, TheCGCareer.com, and through his blog PixelSham.com
Daniele’s expertise ranges from supervising large production teams, to modeling and look development, to lighting and rendering. From VFX cycles to hand-on coding and hands-on large pipeline implementations.
Daniele has been offering seminars and presentations to artists around the world since 2005 covering perception, composition, lighting, color, and work practice fundamentals. This seminar has been built to inspire new and old generations to become better and profitable digital artists.