Resume

Summary

Generalist TD and VFX Artist with experience in feature film, TV, Children's Animation and Commercials. My main goal is to continue to explore and learn new software, new technologies as well as gain a better knowledge of current and future post production techniques in a fun and fast-paced environment. 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 (17 Years - Current)

  Freelance Visual Effects Artist & Developer.

  Through ICM Studios I have had the pleasure to work with some great agencies and clients. The work has been very varied; ranging from animation and VFX to eCommerce websites, design, and branding.

• Layout Artist

  Scanline VFX (May 2024 - Aug 2024)

  - Creation of the Gods II: Demonic Confrontation

• Senior/Lead Layout Artist

  Scanline VFX (Dec 2022 - Mar 2024)

  - Andor Season Two

  - The Six Triple Eight

• Layout Artist

  Scanline VFX (Nov 2021 - Dec 2022)

  - Avatar: The Last Airbender

  - Nyad

  - Meg 2: The Trench

  - The Flash

• Key Artist, Layout - MPC (4 Months)

  Key Layout TD on Feature Film
  - Disney's Maleficent: Mistress of Evil

• 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.