Experience

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  Wicked Pixels

  • Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

  • Senior VFX Artist / VFX Supervisor

    • Apr 2023 - Present
    • Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

    As a VFX Supervisor I will :Conceptualise and plan visual effects scenes: This may be include storyboarding and pre-visualization, as well as creating mock-upsand prototypes to test the feasibility of different effectsManage projects: Ensuring that deadlines are met and the work is completed to a...

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  Freelance

  • Cape Town

  • Freelance CG Supervisor / VFX artist

    • Jun 2022 - Present
    • Cape Town

    Overseeing all aspects of the visual fx pipeline to ensure the quality and delivery of all CG elements meets the expectations of the vfx supervisor and clients. Liaising with the producers for scheduling, costing, and using F-Track to manage projects. Constantly evaluating the pipeline, software ...

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  TouchMedia Limited

  • Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

  • CG Supervisor

    • Oct 2020 - Aug 2022
    • Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

    Overseeing all aspects of the visual fx pipeline to ensure the quality and delivery of all CG elements meets the expectations of our vfx supervisor and our clients. This includes liaising with the producers for scheduling, costing, and using F-Track to manage our projects. I am also constantly ev...

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  Cinegestix

  • Cape town, South Africa

  • CG Supervisor

    • Jul 2017 - Sep 2020
    • Cape town, South Africa

    All things VFX at Cinegestix.

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  BlackGinger

  • Cape Town

  • Lighting & VFX TD

    • Mar 2009 - Jul 2017
    • Cape Town

    My tasks were all sorts of vfx: dynamics & destruction, particle fx, l-systems and all things in between. Often tweaking geometry was needed, painting up the odd texture or weight map and doing whatever was necessary to get the shot done.We used Houdini as our main workhorse and also made use...

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  animationSA

  • Johannesburg and Cape Town

  • Board Member

    • 2006 - 2012
    • Johannesburg and Cape Town

    Animation SA is an organisation aimed at helping the SA animation and CG industry to grow and progress.As a board member, I would provide insight into the FX industry, try and steer decisions made to assist with the interaction between our organisation and government departments. I also assisted ...

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  Masters & Savant

  • Senior animator

    • Aug 2005 - Feb 2009

    My tasks included:Video capture and editing, conforming footage, masking, rotoscoping, keying and colour grading footage.Rigging for character animation, mocap setup & cleanup, effects animation, modelling, animation, lighting, shading and rendering.2d animation, motion graphics, compositing ...

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  various studios

  • Johannesburg

  • Freelancer

    • 2002 - 2005
    • Johannesburg

    3d generalist, working in and around Johannesburg.

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  G-Vision

  • Freelancer

    • 2002 - 2003

    Animation, lighting, shading & rendering.Some fluid fx and rendering for live action integration.

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  Tequila Digital

  • Durban, South Africa

  • Digital Director

    • 2000 - 2001
    • Durban, South Africa

    Headed up the 3d and multimedia at the start of Tequila Digital.Handled all multimedia, video and 3d material, and generated 3d content for print campaigns as well.