Education

Savannah College of Art & Design; Savannah, GA B.F.A. Visual Effects - May 2010

Achievements

Emmy Nominee for - Outstanding Visual Effects in a Supporting role 2015 - Marvels DareDevil

Current

Shade VFX; New York, NY---Staff Senior FX Technical Director---September 2014-February 2019

Joker - 2019
Triple Frontier - 2019
Marvel's Jessica Jones Season 3 - 2019
One Dollar - 2018
Forever - 2018
The Wolf Hour - TBD
Marvel's Iron Fist Season 2 -2018
Operation Finale - 2018
WestWorld Season 2 - 2018
Marvel's DareDevil Season 3 -2018
Oceans Eight - 2018
Lost in Space - 2018
Action Point - 2018
The Last Ship Season 5 -2018
Marvel's Jessica Jones Season 2 - 2018
The Greatest Showman -2017
Marvel's Inhumans -2017
The Last Ship Season 4 -2017
Baywatch - 2017
Marvel's Defenders - 2017
Rough Night - 2017
Logan Lucky - 2017
The Deuce -2017
Live By Night - 2017
A Series of Unfortunate Events - 2017
The OA - 2016
Westworld - 2016
The Get Down - 2016
The Last Ship Season 3 - 2016
Marco Polo Season 2 - 2016
Marvel's DareDevil Season 2 - 2016
Marvel's Jessica Jones - 2015
Love The Coopers -2015
True Detective Season 2 - 2015
American Ultra - 2015
Marvel's DareDevil - 2015
Annie - 2014

Freelance Experience

Shade VFX; New York, NY---Freelance FX Technical Director---May-August 2014

HiFi3D; New York, NY---Freelance Lead FX Artist---February-March 2014

Tronic; New York, NY---Freelance Lead FX TD/Generalist---December 2013

Suspect; New York, NY---Freelance Lead FX TD/Generalist---October-November 2013

The Mill; New York, NY---Freelance FX TD---March-May 2013

I was brought in to The Mill New York to do some R&D work to figure out how to transition the necklace from solid to liquid and then back to a solid in an elegant manor. I ended up doing the first two liquid shots from start to finish. The project went through a lot of trial and error and consisted of many changes but was overall a very challenging and fun project. The look was achieved with a combination of Houdini and Naiad. A rig was made along side of another FX TD which allowed me to quickly change the look of the helix. The helix was used to make velocity channels and was brought into Naiad and simulated in a complex rig to allow the shape to form.

Suspect; New York, NY---FX Artist---Feb 2013

BlackStone Studios; Dubai---Freelance Lead FX Artist/Generalist---Jan-Feb 2013

Igloo VFX; Toronto, Canada---Freelance Lead FX Artist/Generalist---Sep-Nov 2012

Suspect; New York, NY---Technical Assistant---July 2010-March 2012

Responsibilities

-Laying off tapes, Digi-Beta/D5/HD-CAM SR, DVDs

-File conversions: H264, Prores, mpeg, wmv, flv

-Maintaining servers & backing up data

-Flame Assistance

-Finalizing conform and shipping all commercials

-Matte/Alpha creation for texture/flame artists

-Quality control

-Downloading, converting, and optimizing client provided media

-In charge of machine room, routing, hooking up tape decks

-3D digital effects in multiple packages.

-3D/2D generalist work including modeling, animation, texturing and lighting.

Applications:

3D:
Maya (Modeling, texturing, lighting, animating, rendering, nparticles, ncloth, nhair, nfur, fluids, dynamics, bullet)
3DsMax (FumeFX, Krakatoa, Particle Flow, Ray Fire, Vray, Frost)
Houdini (Dop, pop, pyro, fluids, flip)
Naiad (All fluids, and OceanNOT)
Realflow (All fluids)

2D:
After Effects
Photoshop
Nuke

Some experience with:
Mudbox
Zbrush
XSI(softimage, ICE, Arnold)
Unreal 4

Artistic Skills

Solid understanding of particles, rigid/soft body dynamics, voxel based fluid, particle fluid as well as DOPs POPs, FLIP, & PYRO within Houdini. Modeling, texturing, lighting, rendering, animating, nparticles, ncloth, nhair, nfur.