Simon Butler
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Bio
Experience
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Scanline VFX
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Canada
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Entertainment Providers
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700 & Above Employee
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Senior FX Artist
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Aug 2021 - Present
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada [2022] The Gray Man [2022] The Batman - Glass Destruction
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Digital Domain
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Entertainment
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700 & Above Employee
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FX Artist
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Sep 2017 - Aug 2021
Vancouver, Canada Area [2022] Ms. Marvel - Water Setup - Steam - Elephant Toothpaste [2021] Loki - Morph Effect - Environment Volume [2021] Wandavision - Disintegration effect [2020] Carnival Row [2020] Black Widow - Build Fire Setup - Explosions [2019] The Rescue - Fluid Simulation - Responsible for Ocean Setup [2019] Avengers: Endgame - Impact Dust (Volume) - Created Salt (Particles) [2018] Aquaman - Water Interaction with… Show more [2022] Ms. Marvel - Water Setup - Steam - Elephant Toothpaste [2021] Loki - Morph Effect - Environment Volume [2021] Wandavision - Disintegration effect [2020] Carnival Row [2020] Black Widow - Build Fire Setup - Explosions [2019] The Rescue - Fluid Simulation - Responsible for Ocean Setup [2019] Avengers: Endgame - Impact Dust (Volume) - Created Salt (Particles) [2018] Aquaman - Water Interaction with Aquaman [2018] A Series of Unfortunate Events - Boat Interaction - Water Simulation [2018] Ant-Man and the Wasp - Build Thruster Setup (Particles & Volume) [2018] Avengers: Infinity War - Tesseract (Particle Simulation) - Volume Simulations - Build Tracer Setup Other Tasks: Fire Simulations Show less
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Vancouver Institute of Media Arts (VanArts)
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Canada
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Higher Education
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1 - 100 Employee
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Instructor
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Jun 2016 - Dec 2019
Vancouver, Canada Area - Teaching Houdini - Class Size between 10 - 22 People
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MPC
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United Kingdom
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Entertainment Providers
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700 & Above Employee
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FX TD
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Apr 2017 - Jun 2017
Vancouver, Canada Area [2017] Justice League - Tracer Setup
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Digital Domain
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Entertainment
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700 & Above Employee
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FX Artist
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Oct 2016 - Apr 2017
Vancouver, Canada Area Project: [2017] The Fate of the Furious - Water Simulations - Rigid Body
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Method Studios
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United States
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Movies, Videos, and Sound
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300 - 400 Employee
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FX TD
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Jan 2016 - Oct 2016
Vancouver, Canada Area [2016] Doctor Strange - Sling Ring Portal - Magic - Sparks
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DNEG
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United Kingdom
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Animation and Post-production
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700 & Above Employee
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FX TD
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May 2015 - Dec 2015
Vancouver, Canada Area [2016] Alice Through the Looking Glass - Water Simulations - Mist Setup (Particles) Software: Houdini, Nuke, Shotgun, RenderMan
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Method Studios
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United States
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Movies, Videos, and Sound
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300 - 400 Employee
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FX TD
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Feb 2015 - Mar 2015
Vancouver, Canada Area [2015] Avengers - Age of Ultron - Sparks - Debris - Dust - Thrusters - Smoke Trails Software: Houdini, Nuke, Shotgun
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Digital Domain
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Entertainment
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700 & Above Employee
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FX Artist
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Nov 2014 - Feb 2015
Vancouver, Canada Area [2015] Furious 7 - Reentry (Particles) - Airplane contrails - Dust - Debris Software: Houdini, Nuke, Shotgun
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MPC
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United Kingdom
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Entertainment Providers
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700 & Above Employee
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FX TD
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Sep 2013 - Nov 2014
Vancouver, Canada Area Projects: - Furious 7 - Night at the Museum 3 - Guardians of the Galaxy - Game of Thrones - Season 4 - Edge of Tomorrow - Godzilla Tasks / Tools: - Used Scanline's Flowline to create Dust interactions & Fire - Houdini Engine - Maya Particles - Maya Fluids - Sprites - Deep Compositing Software: Maya, Houdini Engine, Nuke, RenderMan, Flowline, Linux MPC FX-Academy (Vancouver) - Responsible to lead and train 10 Juniors - Organizing… Show more Projects: - Furious 7 - Night at the Museum 3 - Guardians of the Galaxy - Game of Thrones - Season 4 - Edge of Tomorrow - Godzilla Tasks / Tools: - Used Scanline's Flowline to create Dust interactions & Fire - Houdini Engine - Maya Particles - Maya Fluids - Sprites - Deep Compositing Software: Maya, Houdini Engine, Nuke, RenderMan, Flowline, Linux MPC FX-Academy (Vancouver) - Responsible to lead and train 10 Juniors - Organizing & scheduling - Problem solving Show less
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Vancouver ACM SIGGRAPH
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Canada
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Entertainment Providers
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Volunteer
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Jun 2013 - Sep 2014
Help out for smooth and successful Event
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Teaching Assistant
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Aug 2013 - Sep 2013
Vancouver, Canada Area
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VFX Student
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Sep 2012 - Aug 2013
Vancouver, Canada Area - One year intensive full-time program learning the fundamentals of the visual effects - Learned Houdini, Maya, Nuke & Photoshop
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The Adecco Group
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Switzerland
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Human Resources Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Demi Chef
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Oct 2011 - Aug 2012
Aarau, Switzerland - Worked in a 16 Gault Millau points restaurant - Was responsible for a Station - Helped out for different Banquets (1000+ people)
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Fairmont Hotels & Resorts
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United Arab Emirates
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Hospitality
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700 & Above Employee
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Demi Chef
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Sep 2009 - Sep 2011
Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada - Cooked food for 100+ people a Night - Was responsible for one restaurant kitchen - Worked in a team of 125 chefs/cooks - Ensure that all the standards are met, maintain consistency
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1st cook
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Aug 2006 - Dec 2006
Emmetten, Switzerland
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Apprentice
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Aug 2003 - Jul 2006
Emmetten, Switzerland
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Education
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Vanarts
Visual Effects For Film and Television,Nuke, Houdini and Maya, VFX -
Berufsschule Sarnen
apprenticeship diploma, Cooking and Related Culinary Arts, General