Dylan Browne Email & Phone Number

Adelaide, Sa, Au

Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

In charge of all things real-time at Modelfarm as well as a Senior Visual Effects Artist on offline rendered projects.Unreleased (Feature Animation) - FX, Lighting & Rendering in Unreal EngineDeath & Other Details (Streaming Series) - FX, Lighting & Rendering in HoudiniLEGO Dreamzzz (Animation Series) - Lighting & Rendering in Unreal EngineUnannounced (Feature Film) - Pre Production Previs in Unreal EngineEddie’s Little Homies (Animation Series) - Unreal Engine R&DUnreleased (Feature Film) - Modelling & Lookdev (on site at Rising Sun Pictures)Key Accomplishments:Developed automated pipeline tools for complete automatic setup of shows within Unreal Engine based on data from ShotGrid, including sequence / sub-sequence creation, animation & camera imports as well as consistent folder structures. This resulted in a streamlined process for our lighting & FX artists to get their work done without worrying about shot setup or dealing with animation imports with this one click solution. Spearheaded Modelfarm’s embracing of Unreal Engine’s Path Tracer for rendering in the studio, creating render templating and teaching the team the benefits, allowing for a much higher quality UE output. Worked with our talented Pipeline team to help realize our largely automated distributed rendering setup for Unreal Engine.Worked with our FX lead to lay the initial groundwork for a method to get millions of animated objects simulated in Houdini into Unreal Engine for a Feature Animation

Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Lead Unreal Engine Artist with a Tech Art focus on High fidelity and cutting edge solutions with an additional focus on Houdini for Feature Film VFX work.The Pope’s Exorcist (Feature Film) - FX, Lighting & Rendering in HoudiniMaster Gardener (Feature Film) - FX, Lighting & Rendering in HoudiniTalk To Me (Feature Film) - FX, Lighting & Rendering in HoudiniElvis (Feature Film) - Modelling & Lookdev (on site at Rising Sun Pictures)Teen Wolf: The Movie (Feature Film) - FX, Lighting & Rendering in HoudiniImmerse (Interactive Exhibition Show) - Realtime Unreal EngineTimewriters (Series Pilot) - Realtime Virtual ProductionVarious Music Videos - Realtime Virtual ProductionNilpena Ediacara Exhibit - Path Traced Unreal EngineKey Accomplishments:Spearheaded a budget Virtual Production setup at Light Adelaide before any of the GUI VP tools in Unreal Engine released, making Light Adelaide one of the first sites in Australia (that wasn’t ILM) to have full camera tracked Virtual production capabilities using Unreal Engine, which led to Modelfarm partnering with Light Adelaide and local creatives on a number of Virtual Production based projects and exhibitions.Lead Artist on Modelfarm’s team to create a large scale continuous 30 minute immersive experience at Light Adelaide exploring the history of the local south Australian land on a 360 degree Virtual Production stage. This included Modelling, LookDev, Shading, Lighting as well as performance optimization. In addition I was tasked with integration of the DMX lighting, Sound cue’s and interactive elements to the experience, sourced via Azure Kinect hardware.As FX lead on this project we were tasked with realizing Paul Scrader’s vision for his film Master Gardener. This was an incredibly rewarding project involving lots of research on how certain plants grow and then simulating this within Houdini as time-lapse like photography to represent an emotional high point in the film.

Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Lighting Artist on Mortal Kombat

Adelaide, Australia

Lighting Artist on Dora and The Lost City of Gold, Cats, Love and Monsters and FinchAdditional experience managing large show wide templating systems within Katana and tool development using Python.

Adelaide, Australia

Adelaide, Australia

Gaining knowledge of a wide range of technical products, Selling to targets, Technical support, Merchandising

Australia

I was charged with the role of Visual Effects Supervisor where I was responsible for managing a team of 5 other VFX artists to create a large number of visual effects shots for the short film Isobel & The Patissier.

I Managed all technical jobs at the CBD store in Adelaide, Troubleshoot Problems with software and hardware, performed hardware upgrades and replacements, assembled computer systems and performed point of sales tasks such as POS operation and stocktake.

Interacted with Staff and Students, Assisting them with advice and technological knowledge of Laptops, Software and Networking Topics, Performing repairs to hardware and performing mass imaging tasks.

Bachelor Of Creative Arts (Screen), Cinematography And Film/Video Production

Studied Film & Screen

Education record

Years 8 - 12 Studied Media Studies, Community Studies, Extension Studies, Photography and Information Technology in Year 12