Yash Polke Email & Phone Number

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)***

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Pune Area, India

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

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