Resume

Summary

I am a South East based Generalist with experience in feature film, TV and the web.

I have experience working for independent production companies and I have recently completed work on the parody TV series 'A Touch of Cloth'. I am just finalising work on a small independent feature film working with 4.5K Red plates. In the past I have worked for Ragdoll Productions, an award winning TV production house, various creative studios and was a member of the Layout team at MPC.

I have an in-depth knowledge of studio pipelines and experience of the visual effects process from beginning to end. At Ragdoll I lead a small team of Renderers on the animated children's TV programme 'The Adventures of Abney and Teal'. I created pipeline tools, helped with rendering, fixed issues as they arose as well as creating assets/rigs and dynamics simulations for the show.

I am self-motivated, driven and passionate about visual effects; I enjoy working in a team and respond well to direction.

Experience

• Freelance VFX Artist - ICM Studios (9 Years 4 Months - Current)

  Freelance Generalist TD - Jellyfish Pictures - Facial Rigging & prop rigging (Maya, python, shotgun)
  Freelance VFX Artist - Black Rock Films - Nightmare Hunters (Maya, Nuke, PFTrack)
  Freelance VFX Artist - Superblimp - Mizuno Ignitus (Maya)
  Freelance VFX Artist - Second Home Studios - Free Radio (Maya, Nuke, PFTrack, Photoshop, Zbrush)
  Freelance VFX Artist - Superblimp - Mizuno Smoothride (Maya)
  Freelance VFX Artist - Superblimp - Mizuno - Previs & simulations
  Freelance Generalist TD - Superblimp - EasyJet Animation
  Freelance Generalist TD - Superblimp - Previs & Rigging
  Freelance VFX Artist - LENSCAREFX - A Touch of Cloth (Maya, Nuke)
  Freelance FX Artist - Rooster Teeth Effects (Red vs Blue)
  Freelance FX Artist - Spool - VFX(Maya, Nuke, After Effects)
  Freelance FX Artist - Megan & Isaac Post/Spool - FX & Visualisation- (Maya, Nuke, After Effects)
  Freelance Generalist TD - 3D Agency Shader Re-compiling (Maya, Mental Ray, C, C++)
  Freelance Generalist TD - 3D Agency Water Simulation (Maya, Realflow, Nuke)
  Editing - Browser London | Promotional demo video
  Various Development jobs (Magento, PHP, Wordpress, Joomla,HTML, Jquey)

• Part Time Motion Graphics & Film Tutor - Hove College(6 Months)

  I helped create/update an 18 week motion graphics and animation course focusing on After Effects and Cinema 4D.

• Part time Pipeline TD - Jellyfish Pictures (6 Months)

  Building pipeline tools remotely for Floogals.

• Layout TD - The Moving Picture Company (8 Months)

  Layout TD on Feature Film
  - Disney's Maleficent
  - Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy

• Junior Web Developer & SEO Marketer - Judd Associates (9 Months)

  Mainly building websites using MODx, Wordpress, HTML, CSS, and PHP. I also concentrate on improving Search Engine Optimisation on multiple clients websites too.

• Freelance 3D Generalist - Ditto.tv (1 week)

  I was hired to undertake a Maya fur final fix as well as setting up fur specific Lighting and Rendering for a 3D gaming project.

• 3D Generalist - Ragdoll Productions (1 year 8 Months)

  I headed up a small team of Renderers on "The Adventures of Abney and Teal", I also produced scripted tools to help aid the rendering process.
  On a day to day basis I would have to solve problems within the production/rendering pipeline.
  
  Duties included: Mel scripting, Animation clean up, Render wrangling, NCloth simulations, Particle simulations, Rigging, Tool development, Scene clean up, Problem solving, Training.

• 3d Artist/Animator/Roto - Passion Pictures (1 Month)

  Produced 3d animated backgrounds for a music video by 'The Winter Olympics'. Also did Roto in
  After Effects and basic Compositing.

• Assistant Crowd Artist - The Moving Picture Company (2 Months)

  Feature film - The Chronicles of Narnia "Prince Caspian". Responsibilities included - Packaging of assets, crowd cache releasing, crowd / hero (full CG) organisation, adding dynamic tails to crowd caches, basic compositing, solving crowd packaging issues.

• Assistant Layout Artist - The Moving Picture Company (2 Months)

  Feature film - The Chronicles of Narnia "Prince Caspian". Responsibilities included - Packaging of assets, scene organisation, placement and tracking of CG leg replacements for animation, scene blocking, basic compositing, solving layout packaging issues.