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At Digital Domain I worked on five Marvel movies including as lead fx artist on “Spider-Man: No Way Home”, which was nominated for an Oscar in Visual Effects in 2022. I also led the show “Citadel” for Amazon Prime which won the Hollywood Professional Association Awards in visual effects in 2023. In the past few years I’ve been working on large scale ocean effects, large scale destruction, crowds, and a novel way to rapidly iterate highly detailed atmosphere/crowd interaction.As Head of FX at Psyop, i oversaw production of hundreds of short form commercial animation projects. I led a team of Houdini artists. I have worked on television commercials, feature length films, and video game cinematics as a visual effects artist, specializing in recreating natural phenomena such as weather systems, behavioral systems, complex branching and foliage, demolition, and other elements which cannot be accomplished either in camera or through more traditional techniques. I create these effects using a combination of mathematics, logic, computer programming, and specialized software.Specialties: HOUDINI - oceans, small and large scale flip simulations, particles, fluids, volumetrics, pyro fire and explosions, rigid body dynamics, procedural effects, mantra shading and renderingARNOLD - custom shader building for fxMAYA - fluids, particles, rigidbody and softbody dynamics, nCloth, shave and a haircut, soup, MEL scripting and UI creationAlso: Redshift, Realflow, XSI, Nuke, After Effects, Photoshop, Linux, Mac, PC

Listed skills include Nuke, Visual Effects, Houdini, Realflow, and 15 others.