Hi, I’m an English VFX Artist and Motion Designer living and working in the unbelievably hot and dry Los Angeles. (Sorry, I’m still acclimating…)
I tend to focus my work towards FX, Lighting and some Environment work, but throughout my career, I have had to delve into almost every facet VFX has to offer, and have therefore gradually transformed into a fully fleshed Generalist as well.
I use Houdini FX almost exclusively for my 3D work. It works the way I like to work, and we happen to work very well together. I am well versed with Procedural Modeling, Volume Fluids (Smoke / Fire / Explosions), FLIP Liquids (Water / Milk / Orange Soda), Cloth, Rigid Bodies, Soft Bodies, Grains, FEM, Particles, Python, VEX, DOPS, LOPS, CHOPS, COPS, HDAs / OTLs and any other three-letter abbreviations Houdini has to offer! I began programming at a very young age and have good maths skills to boot, which certainly helps... As for Compositing, I like to work with After Effects or Nuke. For a complete list of software I am proficient in (It’s a long one...) see the software section below.
I am good at ‘client-ing’... Over the past 10 years, I have found myself occasionally interpolating between other creative roles. Occasionally editing, and even directing the odd TV commercial. I have spent thousands of hours working with clients, and most of whom don’t know diddly squat about CGI. So whether it’s explaining technical aspects of a project in a language they understand, managing their expectations, or just simply just trying to figure out what they want, when they don’t even know what they want… <- very common problem ;) … I can certainly help.
I also happen to be one half of the award-winning commercial directing duo, Mad Ruffian:
(We’re represented in London by Independent Films and in the U.S. by Safeword)
