Bio
Experienced Lead FX Technical Director at DNEG London.
Previously worked at ILM (San Francisco), Tippett Studio, Blue Sky Studios, and Framestore NY.
Specializes in destruction, but has done lots of generalist & character simulation work as well.
Frequent presenter for SideFX, at events including SIGGRAPH (Vancouver), FMX (Stuttgart), & a multi-city Japan tour.
Teaches a comprehensive Houdini FX & Redshift online class at Vertex School, and provides monthly quick tips & artist feedback on Patreon.
Notable film work includes: The Matrix Resurrection, Fast & Furious 9, Venom, Venom: Let There Be Carnage, Pacific Rim: Uprising, Hobbs & Shaw, Justice League, Life, Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them, Greyhound, 2.0, Hurricane Heist, A Cure For Wellness, Jurassic World, Transformers: Age of Extinction, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014), After Earth, Ice Age: Collision Course, Ice Age: Continental Drift, Epic, Rio
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Vertex School
Introduction to Houdini FX & Redshift
This massive 9-week Houdini course covers a wide range of awesome FX!
Detailed lectures cover production-proven techniques that are accessible for beginners, while providing lots of valuable tips & tricks for experienced Houdini artists.
We'll also cover rendering it all in Redshift, and there will be a live session every week where I will answer your questions & provide feedback & show additional helpful tips!
Week 2 - Redshift Rendering
Week 3 - Particle & Grains & Infection & Disintegration
Week 4 - Vellum Deformable Simulation
Week 5 - Fracturing & RBD Simulation
Week 6 - Volumes - Dust & Shockwave
Week 7 - Volumes - Explosion & Fire
Week 8 - FLIP Liquid Simulation
Week 9 - FLIP Whitewater Simulation
Available as either an interactive course with live Q&A sessions and a Discord server for interactive chat and support, or as on-demand videos only, without the interactive component.
Course Description
Side FX Presentations
2020 - Houdini HIVE Worldwide (Online event)
2019 - Japan HUG tour (Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya)
2019 - FMX (Stuttgart, Germany)
2018 - SIGGRAPH (Vancouver, Canada)
2018 - London HUG @ DNEG