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 large studios. 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 (16 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 (3 Months)

  Working on Feature Films :)

• Layout Artist - Scanline VFX (2 Years 4 Months)

  Working on Feature Films :)

• 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.