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Mario
Hawat
CG Supervisor — Writer — Maker
I build tools and pipelines, write about them, and make films in between — fifteen years taming light, code, words, and sound into stories. Based in Paris.
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About
I'm a CG Supervisor at Autour de Minuit and Autour du Volcan, where I build pipelines, break things, and occasionally make them work again. My days are split between wrangling render farms, designing lighting setups that don't make directors cry, and finding ways to make Blender do things it probably wasn't designed to do.
Before landing in supervision, I spent years as a lighting and technical artist on animated shorts and TV projects across Europe and around the world — alongside writing, teaching, and speaking commitments that became a second career. That hands-on background means I still prefer solving problems in the scene file rather than in meetings. I'm a firm believer in open-source tools, procedural workflows, and the idea that a good pipeline should be invisible.
When I'm not on set or knee-deep in Python scripts and node editors, you'll find me writing about Blender development, speaking at conferences, or tinkering with whatever side project seemed like a good idea at 2am.