Art-directable simulations, large-scale crowds and production pipelines for film, episodic and high-end commercials — built to stay fast, stable and easy to revise.
FLIP and thin-film fluids, Pyro, POP particles, RBD destruction, Vellum cloth, hair and grains — from R&D to final pixel.
Agent prep and LOD, behaviour and state systems, paired-clip sync, stadium population, variation shading, publishing and caches.
USD/Solaris, colour-managed ingest, render and farm management, versioning and QA. Python, PySide2/6, VEX, C++, hython, Nuke Python.
Karma XPU, MaterialX, procedural product CGI and environments, Nuke compositing, camera tracking and AI-assisted workflows.
Ingest, camera tracking, FX, look development, rendering, compositing and final delivery, all run through FRANK. The signature effect: a layered gold pixie-dust system, later productised as a reusable HDA.
Procedural supporter distribution for full stadiums, crowd publishing into layout and lighting, volumetrics, water sprays and contact-driven dirt.
CICLOPE Grand Prix Post · Bronze VFX ↗Official CICLOPE entry credits. I worked on crowds and FX as part of the Selected Works VFX team.
Super Bowl LIX. Vellum tickertape with controlled spin, basketball-driven glass shatter, aerodynamic cloth.
Paired A/B clip instancing keeping thousands of hugging agents in sync for Paris 2024.
One procedural crowd framework for stadiums, cities and live broadcasts across 14 sports.
RBD building destruction, pyro and debris, volumetric jet exhaust with shock-diamond patterns.
Engineering drawings rebuilt as procedural folding and wrapping rigs; Vellum wrappers; modular chocolate pours for a 4096×1280 LEDwall.
Crowd owned end to end, from setup to export pipeline, plus tickertape FX.
Also: The Sandman (Netflix) · Romulus & ZeroZeroZero (Sky) · Il Primo Re · Nike So Win · Tylenol × NWSL · Xbox The Caretaker · Usyk vs Fury 2 · M&S Christmas · Squarespace · Sky F1 · PlayStation · Ray-Ban Stories · Dyson · Ferrari 488 Pista
An end-to-end VFX pipeline I designed, built and run on live jobs. One artist-facing app inside Houdini and Nuke, backed by a per-project manifest that tracks every plate, version, render and note — from ingest to final delivery.
Quality gates: every release passes a static reference check and a 470-check self-test suite before it reaches production.
Deterministic particle-trail system with layer families, on-disk presets, sibling sync and auto-built render branches.
Drag-and-drop look assignment that identifies assets, builds LOP networks and applies studio material libraries.
Mood-based state randomisation with epicentre and heatmap preview, agent publishing and texture variation.
Depth pre-scoping for tracking, an opt-in module that learns artist habits, splat-to-USD set reconstruction.
Live previews of the interfaces, rebuilt for the web with demo data. Every project, shot and layer name below is fictional.
One window for the whole job. Browse every sequence and shot with live previews, prep a shot in one click, track renders and review cuts without leaving Houdini or Nuke.
Magical dust trails, art-directed from a single curve. A family of layers (fine dust, foils, hero sparks) shares one animation and stays in sync, while each layer keeps its own look and render stream.
Nike "Rip the Script" · Selected Works team · winner page ↗
Nike "So Win" · Selected Works VFX team
WWF "Orso" for Earth Hour, dir. Gabriele Muccino · credited as Environment FX · certificate ↗
Part of Laconic's curated roster of senior artists, since 2025.
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FX, procedural CGI and custom tooling for advertising and branded content, from look exploration to final delivery.
Designed the crowd pipeline from the ground up — agents, LOD, behaviours, USD assembly, publishing and caches — plus hero FX for global sport and brand campaigns.
Isover Building Better Together — the film's main real-to-CG transition.
The Sandman E10 (Netflix), Sky F1 Season Launch, Sky Glass, PlayStation, Ray-Ban Stories, Dyson, DFS.
Romulus, ZeroZeroZero, L'uomo senza gravità, Cosmos, Il Primo Re; Ferrari, Kinder, WWF — Cannes Lions Film Craft finalist.
TV commercials and the U-Hugs animated series.
Final grade 102/110. CAD, mechanical design, materials and production systems: the engineering grounding behind how I build simulations and tools.
Visual Effects · WWF "Orso" · Environment FX
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Diploma of Merit · Houdini, Maya, Nuke
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480 hours · Autodesk Authorized Training Center
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280 hours · Autodesk Authorized Training Center
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Verified certificate
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Google Digital Garage
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