Yash Polke
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Sr. FX Technical Director at ILM at Industrial Light & Magic
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 13 work roles 2 schools
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Sr. FX Technical Director at ILM
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Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Yash Polke is listed as Sr. FX Technical Director at ILM at Industrial Light & Magic, a company with 1698 employees, based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. AeroLeads shows a work email signal at ilm.com, phone signal with area code 778, and a matched LinkedIn profile for Yash Polke.

Yash Polke previously worked as Sr.FX Technical Director at Industrial Light & Magic and Sr.FX Technical Director at Sony Pictures Imageworks. Yash Polke holds Diploma, Fx Technical Director Diploma (Fx Td) Using Houdini from Lost Boys | School Of Visual Effects.

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Canadian CitizenDiscipline: FX

Listed skills include Houdini, Photoshop, Nuke, Python, and 2 others.

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Industrial Light & Magic
Industrial Light & Magic
Sr. FX Technical Director at ILM
san francisco, california, united states
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Yash Polke work experience

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Sr.Fx Technical Director

Current

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

  • Worked on:***Black Panther Wakanda Forever - (2022)***
  • Water simulations
  • Magic FX
  • Rigid Body Dynamics ***Ahsoka (2023)***
  • Smoke simulation
  • Magic FX ***The Acolyte (2023)***
Aug 2022 - Present

Sr.Fx Technical Director

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

  • Worked on:***The Seabeast - (2022)***
  • Beer simulations (flip)
  • Water simulations
  • Fish crowd simulations
  • Rigid Body Dynamics***Spiderman - Across the Spider verse (2023)***
  • Destruction
Apr 2021 - Jul 2022

Sr.Fx Technical Director

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

  • General description:Singular FX employee, undertaking shot tasks and duties related to the department, developing FX tools along with aiding in bidding FX work for the studio.Worked on:***Another Life - (2021)***
  • Organic Growth FX: RnD, procedural setup for growing ice crystal formation and growth over character, lookdev using Redshift
  • Blood Simulations: Flip blood spewing from character, zero gravity blood
  • Plant Simulations: Using combination of Wire solver and Vellum for Character peeping through trees
  • Explosion, Dust Clouds, Debris and Smoke Trails and Desert Dust Storm*** Big Sky - (2020) ***
  • Water FX: Rapid River RnD, setup, simulation, writing custom shaders for water in Redshift.
Oct 2020 - Mar 2021

Sr.Fx Technical Director

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

  • Worked on:*** The Mandalorian Season 2 - (2020) ***
  • Running shots with various setups for debris, smoke and other particle sims
  • Destruction sims setups and shots
Jul 2020 - Sep 2020

Fx Technical Director

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

  • GENERAL:
  • Development in Houdini UI Python & VEX tools and OTL'sWorked on:*** Morbius - (2021) ***
  • Magical organic FX
  • Minor destruction & debris*** Rescue - (2020)***
  • Destruction setups
  • Explosions | Rotorwash setups
Jan 2019 - May 2020

Fx Technical Director

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

  • GENERAL:
  • Development in Houdini UI Python & VEX tools and OTL'sWorked on:*** Venom (2018) ***
  • Procedural Laser's
  • Procedural Saliva*** Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)***
  • Conceptualization of Magical | Abstract FX
  • Smoke | Dust | Debris FXAll of the above involved the use of Houdini and Clarisse.
Nov 2017 - Nov 2018

Fx Technical Director

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

  • GENERAL:
  • Development in Houdini UI Python & VEX tools and OTL'sWorked on:***Lost in Space - Netflix Original (2018)***
  • Rigid Body Dynamics
  • Fracture and development of other RBD sim tools
  • Custom sim-imitation solver
  • Custom automated constraint networks
Jun 2017 - Oct 2017

Creature Fx Technical Director

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

  • GENERAL:Using Houdini and proprietary software Zeno to fracture and simulate Rigid bodiesWorked on:*** Transformers: The Last Knight***
  • RBD ( Destruction ) | Character | Wire | Cloth simulationsAll of the above involved the use of Zeno.
Jan 2017 - May 2017

Fx Technical Director

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

  • GENERAL:
  • Development in Houdini UI Python & VEX tools and OTL'sWorked on:***Power Rangers (2017)***
  • Smoke | Particles | Abstract FX simulation
  • FX LookDev using Gaffer(Description: Advection of Image projection particles within a Nebula: A smoke | particle entity showing the history of the Power Rangers, using SOPs)*** Fantastic Beasts (2016)***
  • Smoke | Particles | RBD | Magical & Abstract FX simulation(Description: Steamy | wet | brittle dung balls which trail and break away while being carried by massive dung beetles, Graphorns in the dessert, Footprints in.
  • Pyro | Smoke | Particles | Magical & Abstract FX simulation
Jan 2016 - Jan 2017

Fx Technical Director

Hydraulx

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

  • GENERAL:
  • Making custom Houdini tools using VEX and Python
  • Assisting in Houdini farm tools development | RN'D in asset management tools for FX and other departments (Maya - Python)FX: Development in Pyro simulations, Wire Simulations, FEM | Cloth Simulation, Particles, Rigid.
  • RBD Simulation (Description: Notorious Magneto, creates a huge magnetic field causing cargo containers to fly into it)*** Geostorm (2017)***
  • RBD | Particles | Dust simulation(Description: Mumbai is being torn down by multiple tornados causing buildings and shops on the street to fly right into them)*** San Andreas (2015)***
  • RBD | Dust | Debris | Pyro simulation
Aug 2014 - Dec 2015

Project Intern (Finite Element Analysis | Fem)

Hemrl (Drdo) High Energy Materials Research Laboratory (Defence Research & Development Organization)

Pune, India

Design of Hydraulic System, setting up PLC logic, and stress analysis along with analysis of fluid flow using Finite Element Analysis and Computational Fluid Dynamics respectively (FEM - CFD: ANSYS) for Crimping machine

Jul 2013 - Mar 2014

Guitarist

Moonburn

Pune Area, India

Founder, Guitarist, back-up singer and songwriterReleased debut EP: "NULL ABSTRACT" in May 2015Available at:Listen to Null Abstract EP by Moonburn (Official) #np on #SoundCloudhttps://soundcloud.com/moonburnofficial/sets/null-abstract-ep

Apr 2008 - Sep 2013

Assistant Recording Engineer

Tweaklab Studios

Pune Area, India

Jan 2013 - Jul 2013
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2 education records

Yash Polke education

Diploma, Fx Technical Director Diploma (Fx Td) Using Houdini

~Procedural geometry Making use of the procedural power of Houdini to do geometry manipulation (Heavy SOPs) ~Environmental FX Heavy use of.

Bachelor'S Degree, Mechanical Engineering

M.I.T College Of Engineering, University Of Pune

Final year project in Finite Element Analysis ( FEM ) ~Construction of crimping machine which manufactures ERA ( Explosive Reactive Armour.

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Yash Polke is listed as Sr. FX Technical Director at ILM at Industrial Light & Magic.

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Yash Polke is based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada while working with Industrial Light & Magic.

What companies has Yash Polke worked for?

Yash Polke has worked for Industrial Light & Magic, Sony Pictures Imageworks, Barnstorm Vfx, Image Engine Design Inc., and Digital Domain.

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Yash Polke's colleagues at Industrial Light & Magic include Anu Pooni, Diego Collell, Aoife Hodnett, Rimmi Dayani, and Julian Hodge.

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Yash Polke holds Diploma, Fx Technical Director Diploma (Fx Td) Using Houdini from Lost Boys | School Of Visual Effects.

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Yash Polke is listed with skills including Houdini, Photoshop, Nuke, Python, 3D Modeling, and Rotoscoping.

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