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London, England, United Kingdom

Completed large scale destruction work of a wooden rope bridge utilising Houdini's bullet toolset. Implemented all setup, fracturing and secondaries involved.

London, England Metropolitan Area

Created RBD based glass shattering FX using Houdini's bullet toolset. Completed droplet style spray FX off characters faces.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Went to Mumbai and lead a team of 15 FX artists. Did CFX work on a feathered groom, created the setup and supervised its implementation while working against an imminent deadline.

London, England, United Kingdom

Was responsible for all the FX related tasks on all foliage in the film. A huge undertaking, I worked with Build and Lighting, was responsible for 48+ shots in London and Mumbai. I created a toolset and library for efficient rendering of trees, plants and ivy. Along with their realistic movement of varying intensity and with over 400,000 of them being.

London, England, United Kingdom

Created setups for hurricane effect used in multiple shots. Used a variety of different toolsets within Houdini. Smoke, particle workflows which were used in London and in Mumbai. Held daily reviews of Mumbai work and liaised with them on updates, file transfer and sync.

London, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

Created large scale destruction shots with all secondary elements. Multiple building collapse shots, ground destruction, using Houdini's Bullet toolset along with volumetric and particle based elements. Juggled a large amount of work and shot complexity to final.

London, England, United Kingdom

Utilised the ocean toolkit in Houdini to create seamless ocean surface renders on top of plate. Did FLIP based splashes and particle work for sailors jumping off ships into the water. Did smoke trails from downed planes and smoke blooms off sinking ships.

London, England, United Kingdom

Using Houdini, completed frost based FX for characters and buildings freezing. Did smoke based sims for fog.

London, England Metropolitan Area

Worked on the creature FX concerning the 6 winged thunderbird. Working with the groom developed by the creature team in Houdini. I added realistic flutter, bending and intersection checks to allow the groom to work seamlessly and realistically with the animation.

London, England, United Kingdom

Worked on the nebula section of the film at the beginning. Did volumetric based FX to construct the nebula itself. Created the asteroid field, various RBD hits and the lightning FX within the nebula. All done in Houdini.

London, England, United Kingdom

Did a large amount of various FX elements for the series. Created various swirling dust elements created by in the tear in space using smoke solver, ran pseudo-fluidesque effect in which goo consumes characters whole. Did some Pyro FX with fire. All done in Houdini.

London, England, United Kingdom

Focused on the large number of ground interaction hits between various characters in a desert scene consisting of primary RBD hits with gravel and secondary dust elements. Over 20 characters were done and stitched together digitally for the final shot.

London, England, United Kingdom

Utilising Houdini, tasks included particle based effects for the large one take underwater shot which logistically was shot with a large number of separate shots and stitched digitally.

London, England, United Kingdom

Wrote a wide array of tools from geometry caching tools to large scale asset management tools. Extensive experience with visual effects pipelines from plugins and third party tool integration along with scripting and geometry manipulation tools.Most of my time has been has been spent writing C++ but I also used python extensively aswell as all the standard.

Msc, Interactive Entertainment Technology

Activities and Societies: Dublin University Science Fiction Society The MSc in Computer Science (Interactive Entertainment Technology) is.

Ba(Mod), Computer Science, 1St Class

Activities and Societies: President - Dublin University Science Fiction Society - 07 - 08 For more information, look at the course's.

Certificate, Computer Animation

Learned how to create 3D models using 3ds Max.