Ollie Rankin Email & Phone Number

Vancouver, Bc, Ca

• Researching new political and economic systems that prioritize inclusivity, equitability and sustainability• Content creation in various media for multiple platforms to educate and engage global audiences

Marina Del Rey, Ca, Us

• Writing, directing and producing original, interactive virtual reality experiences• XR content creation and technology development• Consulting and advising VR/AR startups in the education and entertainment sectors• VFX supervision, including pre-production, on set and post-production

• Co-Creator of Lost Horizon, the first ever multi-day multi-stage music festival in VR, with 75 musical acts, including Fatboy Slim, Carl Cox, Pete Tong, Seth Troxler, Alabama 3 and featuring the work of hundreds of visual artists, including Shepard Fairey and Mark Titchner

San Francisco, Ca, Us

• Developing both the technological and service capabilities for live virtual event production in leading social metaverse platform• Shipped the world’s first immersive metaverse platform on consumer smart TVs, via pixel-streaming

Vancouver, Ca

• Creating original content advocating improved social, political and economic practices, for a more inclusive, sustainable and progressive civilization• Maintaining a growing community, researching and sharing new developments and promoting action against the climate crisis and social injustice

London, London, Gb

• Creative Director and member of the technical brain trust, building a real-time platform enabling virtual music performances in VR and live-streaming. VRJAM was one of Startup Grind’s top ten startups to watch in 2021.

Cary, Nc, Us

• Intensive 5-week program to gain skills in Virtual Production filmmaking using Epic's Unreal Engine

• Contracted by the Foreign Affairs, Trade & Development division of the Government of Canada to speak at both GIC (Game Industry Conference) in Poznan and FSO (Film Spring Open) in Krakow, to educate audiences on the industry landscape in Canada as well as present opportunities for investment in and collaboration with the respective Canadian business sectors

• Working as the on set visual effects supervisor for the ABC / SONY TV production, the Good Doctor

•Pioneering volumetric/holographic capture and playback at Uncorporeal Systems, an industry-leading technology company• Overseeing all internal and external VR/AR/MR projects, from conception to completion

Fitzrovia, London, Gb

• Acted as visual effects supervisor on Alice Through the Looking Glass (dir. James Bobin), which involved extensive direct collaboration with the director, editor and overall visual effects supervisors to deliver over 300 ambitious effects shots which were shared across two teams in Vancouver and London• Served as Vancouver-side visual effects supervisor on Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (dir. Tim Burton)

Santa Monica, Ca, Us

• Client-facing creative and technical supervisor, working alongside film directors to plan and execute a wide variety of visual effects work, from pre-production through to final delivery• Credits include Pelé: Birth of a Legend, Transformers: Age of Extinction, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Elysium, White House Down, Riddick, G. I. Joe: Retaliation, J. Edgar, Comforting Skin

London, Gb

• Supervised the crowd and motion capture teams to produce animation for up to 10,000 characters at a time in over 500 visual effects shots for The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian among other films• Planned, choreographed and directed motion capture for a diverse cast of humans and mythical creatures for both foreground and background use in crowd and battle scenes• Supervised ongoing development of the proprietary in-house crowd system, ALICE

• Simulated swarming sentinels for pivotal battle sequence in The Matrix Revolutions• Developed tools for integrating dynamic effects into the swarm

• Led a small team creating 3D fly-throughs in the style of 400-year-old wood block prints for an HDTV documentary marking the anniversary of Tokyo becoming capital of Japan

Miramar, Wellington, Nz

• Choreographed battle scenes in the first two Lord of the Rings films using the proprietary AI crowd simulation software, Massive• Developed tools and techniques for executing various types of crowd and battle simulation

Designed, developed and deployed an extensible internet/intranet application framework based around ColdFusion and SQLServer

• Worked with a small team on the design and development of a web application to service the NZ Real Estate industry

Bsc(Hons), Computer Science

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