Allan Mckay Email & Phone Number

Portland, OR, US

Orlando, FL, US

New York, New York, US

Version Zero is an AI company founded by Hollywood insiders to create products that automate manual processes involved in post production.

Sherman Oaks, California, US

Regularly speaking at various special events in both the visual effects, film industry and the marketing space as well.Host of the Allan McKay Podcast, typically rated in the top 200 career podcasts on iTunes. Guests include feature film directors, producers, thought leaders, authors and other experts centered around the creative industry (film, tv, games.

Head of CG Department - During my time there we had projects ranging from Shogun, Fallout, Righteous Gemstones, Superman & Lois, Little Wing, Quantum Leap, Alex Cross and many other projects come through.CG Supervisor - ShogunVFX Supervisor - Little WingCG Supervisor - Quantum LeapSimulation - Superman & LoisTaking over as head of CG department as well as.

San Francisco, CA, US

CPO for startup - involved in building a fully automated CG pipeline and tools for Unreal and Houdini.Built and managed engineering team, managers and art teams as well as developing and executing product vision

Founded studio Catastrophic FX - where we did well over 10 million dollars in sales of VFX services. Supervising many commercials and game cinematics as well as working on many feature films and special events.Typically staffing 25-30 people most of the time, and building a lot of custom software solutions to supply for Visual Effects services.Originally.

Los Angeles, California, US

Came in as a consultant to create a large amount of visual effects for the game God of War Ragnarok

Culver City, CA, US

Got brought on to rescue a hero shot for the movie Bloodshot that was pulled from another studio, involving heavy particle work and effects. Working directly with the VFX Supervisor for the film. The film was set to deliver in 4 days so it required fast turnaround and minimal revisions to nail the treatment.

I worked on two hero shots for the season finale/show finale - involving turning Elizabeth Hurley's character turning to ash. This project was a 5 day turnaround, so it was critical to have great communication as well as an aligned vision with the VFX sup on the project

Sydney, NSW, AU

Hired to create the official Avengers Endgame posterThis was an extremely tight turnaround - I flew in and had 3 days to create the work on the avengers logo crumbling and hand it over to the 3D department to light and create the shading for.Marvel was to review the work 24 hours after I had started.It required understanding what was needed and also coming.

Sydney, NSW, AU

I worked on the cinematic/trailer for the game. Which involved choreographing fire specifically burning unique characters, from zombies to little children. As well as burning an entire forest, and controlling the spread in each shot. Over 150 fluid grids were simmed, custom tools built specifically for it.

San Francisco, California, US

Came on to work on an art installation project, creating almost 10 minutes of simulated fire for a London art exhibit.

Los Angeles, CA, US

I got credited VFX Supervisor on the project - but I was basically just creating FX for the project.I came on to work with their amazing team - creating all of the VFX elements for the 'Secrets' promo spot for Manhattan Season 2. The turnaround period was extremely fast considering the shots and the amount of work, but it was a blast to get to work with.

Santa Monica, California, US

Black Ops 3 - consultingBuilt 62 FX assets of fire, explosions, smoke and other 4096x FX elements we discussedOverlook look at pipeline and workflowBuilt various tools, scripts etc.Gave multiple small presentations/talks on various software toolsI thoroughly enjoyed getting to work work a really great talented team over at Treyarch!

Culver City, CA, US

Boston, MA, US

Working on Denzel's new film.

Witches of East End Trailer - Created all of the visual effects for this piece, involving nearly 20 visual effects shots of photorealistic simulated fire. Initially also sup'ing on set however there was a schedule conflict.To keep all of the talent 'safe' the fire was all created digitally in Fume FX. Also using special software developed for this project.

Need for Speed - Feature FilmCurrently in production - but created an extremely fast turnaround complicated shot in under 3 days for temps involving simulating digital fire at high velocity.

Metallica - Through the NeverCreated the film logo for the production company involving photorealistic heavily directed simulated fire burning over a flag full screen film res stereo for this 30 second piece.Warcraft the movie - Comicon TeaserCreated a tight turnaround teaser trailer for Comicon's announcement of the movie. Creating photorealistic CG fire.

US

VFX Supervisor managed a total of 5 FX artists, developed all of the pipelines and tools throughout the production. During that time our team was highly praised and delivered flawlessly throughout the production. As well as picking up additional work that had been originally given to other high profile studios to handle.I built many tools and plugins to.

Civilization 5 Cinematic - Created massive nuclear explosion for the recreation of the Manhattan project, for the high profile cinematic for the game's release.V.E.G.A Game Cinematic, managed one other VFX Artist and created pipelines, tools for rolling out massive quantities of visual effects in a manageable manor for the cinematic, primarily fire.

Star Trek 2 - Worked on all of the FX for a massive shot of a frozen moment in time, camera pulling through it for the high profile feature film. Creating over 100 FX elements involving smoke, fire debris and sparks. Managed one other artist for the project.Initially called upon to create the shot in less than 24 hours, and then later brought back for.

God of War: From Ashes Superbowl Spot - Brought on from conception for initial discussions with the director, art director and producer as well as involved on set during the shoot and handling all of the 3D ash shots for God of War piece.Managed one other artist and one additional generalist toward the end of production. I was responsible for creating all.

Santa Monica, CA, US

Collaborated on a pitch for a vfx heavy tv commercialdeveloped various videos and contributed to the treatment, creating backgrounds and other contributionsparticipated in the presentation to client

Burbank, California, US

CastleNCIS

bid, produced and supervised projects and teams as well as supervised on set. Created pipeline and artist tools, worked on vfx shots as well as managed small and large teams for feature films and tv commercials.

Big Brother TV Ident

Cadillac - TV Commercial

McDonalds Game CinematicSupervised team of 15 artists

Daybreakers - Feature FilmCatastrophic FX / Co-Production w/ Kanuka

London, UK, GB

Beautiful CreaturesVFX Look dev TwisterLightning Impacts, Tool Dev

HESS TV Commercial - Supervising VFX, overseeing other artists and building pipeline solutions for the productionThe Wind - Worked on an internal pitch for Warner Bros for a feature film involving heavy amounts of groundbreaking effects using new technology and troubleshooting ways to efficiently be able to get simulations to work within the heavy.

Looper

Flight

Saints Row 4

Turtle Beach

White Doves - Young Empires (Music Video)

Fume FX Workshop at FXPHD

Minute Maid - Commercial

Nescafe - TV CommercialConsultation on overall Psyop Studio Pipeline with IT department

Transformers 3 - Feature Film

Managed all of the FX for various high profile projects and feature films

Similo (Short Film)Dracula 3D - Feature Film

Hess TV Commercial

Burbank, California, US

The River

One of their key instructorsMajority of my workshops would sell out within 72 hoursI was the first to be able to increase cost and head count in the classes as well as help in improving ways to attract studentsRan over 15, 8 week workshops on subjects such as Realflow, Fume FX, Particle Flow and various other subjects

San Francisco, California, US

working on Priest, making things go boom

worked on game cinematic creating most of the FX

San Francisco, CA, US

The Last Airbender - Feature Film

Star Wars Battle Front II - Game CinematicEnd of Nations - Game Cinematic

Priest - Feature Film

I was FX Lead on Priest, managing the other FX artists, as well as creating many of the biggest shots on the project, primarily creating fire, and destruction/demolition. And creating various tools, and helped build their pipeline for the studio at least in regards to how 3ds max plugged into it all

Fable 3 - TV CommercialAirforce - TV Commercial

Los Angeles, California, US

Asia Games - Special Event

Rev Theory - Music Video

Los Angeles, California, US

grimbergen - TV Commercial

Stuttgart, BW, DE

Hawx2 - Video Game Cinematic

London, UK, GB

2012 - Feature Film

Beautiful Creatures - worked on creating a massive tornado primarily doing the look dev/R&D for the project

Protoype - Video Game

Working as part of the advaned visual group in building pipelines, overseeing and controlling the future FX pipelines for the studio and rolling out to all of their games.

Cover art for many issues of Popular Mechanics Magazine and feature articles

San Francisco, CA, US

Consistently speaking and doing demos for Autodesk, as well as one of their key speakers for most siggraph Master Classes and events around the world and hired for consulting with various studios in Australia.Awarded as Autodesk Master (apparently voted the highest out of all the Max Masters) in 2007 San Diego SIGGRAPH.Also responsible for creating all of.

San Francisco, CA, US

Presented Autodesk products allover the world at major events, presenting as an expert of the product, holding master classes, keynotes, panels and demos.Hired by Autodesk for various projects including creating massive FX asset library that now ships with 3ds max. Also consulting with various clients of theirs including WETA.

film studio

film studio

Winnipeg, MB, CA

Intense 3 day training session training a majority of Frantic Films FX TD's and staff on many advanced FX based subjects, such as fluids, digital fire, particles, scripting, crowd, volumetrics and procedural animation and modeling.

FX Lead on a large tv commercial for Spec Ops creating lots of destruction, fluids, particles and other effects.

New York, US

Spec Ops - Game Cinematic

Agoura Hills, CA, US

Warhammer - Game Cinematic Pitch

Fortitude Valley, Queensland, AU

on multiple occasions came in to consult on upcoming projects and expansion of their pipelines, as well as a few 911 calls involving taking over supervision of one project to get back on track towards the end.

VFX for a Subaru commercial

US

Bioshock TV CommercialInterviewed artists for the projecthelped out with the script treatmentR&D and Look devtrained artists

Subaru TV Commercial

Winnipeg, MB, CA

Asylum - Feature Film

Sydney, NSW, AU

Bioshock - Game Cinematics

Manchester, Manchester, GB

Autorobotica - Game Cinematic

Culver City, CA, US

Worked on several game cinematics and a couple of their short films, one which received an oscar nomination. Warhammer 40k: dawn of war, bioshock trailer, halo wars, in the rough, gopher broke, amongst many others.

Melbourne, Victoria, AU

Nightmares and Dreamscapes - Stephen King episodicCitroen TV Commercialferrero rocher Commercial

Saint-Mandé, Île-de-France, FR

3 day intense training course teaching all of their senior staff and art directors/technical directors on subjects for visual effects for cinematics and realtime games.

GB

Medieval 2 - Game Cinematic

Pyro Cops - Game CinematicsDarkness - Game CinematicsJustice League - Game cinematicsFull Auto 2 - Game Cinematics

Kung Fu - Cinematic

Dallas, TX, US

Boz The Bear - Animated Feature Film

Dallas, TX, US

FX for Boz the bear and other projects

Dallas, TX, US

loads of FX shots for their tv show "boz the bear" in maya.

Winnipeg, MB, CA

Helped form Frantic Films Australia and work on set for Superman Returns as a liaison between Frantic Films and the Director/Production team for Superman. Also working on a lot of the key sequences for Superman and helping develop the look for some of the key shots. Other than Superman working on IdleWild and various other feature films. As well as.

Winnipeg, MB, CA

The Big Empty (Short Film)

Winnipeg, MB, CA

Superman Returns

Winnipeg, MB, CA

Slither - Feature Film (Pitch)

Winnipeg, MB, CA

IdleWild - Feature Film

Sunrise, FL, US

Developed all of the FX for multiple video game cinematics

Saint Louis, MO, US

Visual effects and FX pipeline development for Neverwinter nights cinematic

Created visual effects for various high profile projects, including large crowd simulation projects, water simulations and various other effects

Panzer Elite - Cinematics

Go Talk - CinematicHeavy Crowd Simulations

Toyota DNA - Commercial

The Suffering (Music Video)Welcome Home (Music Video)

Montreal, Quebec, CA

Worked on notable shots for feature films such as Blade 3, Cinderella Story, Son of the Mask and various others

Montreal, Quebec, CA

Exorcist 2 - Pitch for Feature FilmSuperbowl (Received Emmy award)Son of the Mask - Feature FilmShady Acres - Production Co. LogoBlade Trinity - Feature Film

Montreal, Quebec, CA

Cinderella Story - Feature Film

Culver City, CA, US

Gopher Broke (Oscar Nominated)In The RoughWarhammer: Dawn of War (Cinematic)Call of Duty (Cinematic)

FX Lead, designed the look and pipeline and managed FX team under high pressure environment accommodating over 40 heavy VFX shots in just over 2 months for a high profile game cinematic.

Winnipeg, MB, CA

Scooby Doo 2 (Feature Film)

Winnipeg, MB, CA

Paycheck - Feature Film

McGuyver - tv series

Dark Age of Light - Feature Film

IN

Toyota Scion - TV Commercial

Temple of Elemental Evil - Game Cinematic

Pretty much 'was' the FX department there. Creating all of their visual effects, anything to do with dynamics, simulations, crowds, particles etc. I created lots of FX in maya and 3ds max, and compositing in Shake

Lord of the rings - PitchInspector Gadget 2 - Feature FilmGeorge of the Jungle 2 - Feature FilmSeconds to Spare - Feature FilmBrains Trust - TV CommercialDiscovery Channel - PitchSilverchair The Greatest View - Music VideoIce Break TV CommercialFruitloops Commercial30+ commercials and special projects

Over 100 commercials, R&D and various other tasks

Created FX for over 30 commercialsAlso worked as a generalist, modeling, animating, compositing, tracking and everything else, both in 3ds max and maya

IN

over 40+ commercials and special projects

Created original logo for video game company, as a favor

Instructor, as well as ran classes for beginner and advanced classes on video gameshelped create curriculum Bachelor of interactive entertainmenttaught diploma of IT games development, Womens Diploma of multimedia

The Novice - Short Film

Loony Tunes Space Race - Video Game