PARTITION_01 // CINEMATIC & VFX TRACK

Entertainment & Media

Visual Effects Supervision, Look Development, and photorealistic volumetric simulations. Directing high-throughput pipelines from initial lookdev exploration through USD stage assembly and final ACEScg composite finishing.

ACTIVE_PARTITION: 01_VFX

LOOKDEV • USD • KARMA XPU

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PIPELINE CORE

Solaris / USD Stages

RENDER DISPATCH

Karma XPU / CPU Hybrid

COLOR MANAGEMENT

ACEScg / OCIO v2.2

COMPOSITING FINISH

Nuke Deep EXR Multi-Channel

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SHOWING 5 REEL BREAKDOWNS

VFX Supervision

2023 - 2024

The Boys (Season 3 & 4) // 4K_ACEScg

KEYNOTE_PRODUCTION

// Sony Pictures Television / Amazon Studios

The Boys (Season 3 & 4)

ROLE: VFX Supervisor & Lead FX Technical Director

High-energy procedural destruction, volumetric plasma dispersion, and complex organic gore simulations engineered for hyper-realistic cinematic sequences.

PIPELINE_TELEMETRYOK

PARTICLE_COUNT:1.4 Billion Voxels / Sim

RENDER_ENGINE:Karma XPU (ACEScg)

AVG_FRAME_TIME:18.4 min / Frame

FARM_ALLOCATION:128 Nodes / Batch

>_Houdini>_Karma_XPU>_Solaris_USD>_VEX>_Nuke

Simulation & Dynamics

2023 - 2024

Avatar: The Last Airbender // 4K_ACEScg

KEYNOTE_PRODUCTION

// Netflix Original Series

Avatar: The Last Airbender

ROLE: Senior FX Artist & Procedural Lookdev Specialist

Photorealistic elemental bending phenomena: multi-phase fluid simulations, swirling fire vortices, and procedural earth shattering.

PIPELINE_TELEMETRYOK

PARTICLE_COUNT:850 Million Particles

RENDER_ENGINE:Karma CPU / GPU Hybrid

AVG_FRAME_TIME:24.2 min / Frame

FARM_ALLOCATION:96 Compute Nodes

>_Houdini_FLIP>_Karma>_OpenVDB>_VEX>_Nuke_Deep

Lookdev & Lighting

2020 - 2021

American Gods // 4K_ACEScg

KEYNOTE_PRODUCTION

// Starz / Fremantle

American Gods

ROLE: Lookdev & Lighting Lead / Senior FX TD

Surreal ethereal dreamscapes, metaphysical disintegration effects, and macro-crystalline light refractions rendered in ACEScg.

PIPELINE_TELEMETRYOK

PARTICLE_COUNT:420 Million Particles

RENDER_ENGINE:Karma / Solaris USD

AVG_FRAME_TIME:31.0 min / Frame

FARM_ALLOCATION:64 Dedicated Blades

>_Solaris>_Karma>_Mantra>_VEX>_ACEScg

Simulation & Dynamics

2022

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever // 4K_ACEScg

KEYNOTE_PRODUCTION

// Marvel Studios / Walt Disney Studios

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

ROLE: FX Technical Director (Fluid & Environmental Dynamics)

High-density ocean hydrodynamic interactions, massive pressure waves, and atmospheric underwater turbulence.

PIPELINE_TELEMETRYOK

PARTICLE_COUNT:2.1 Billion Voxels

RENDER_ENGINE:Karma XPU

AVG_FRAME_TIME:42.5 min / Frame

FARM_ALLOCATION:180 Compute Nodes

>_Houdini_Ocean>_OpenVDB>_Karma>_Python>_Nuke

Procedural Environments

2022 - 2023

Halo: The Series // 4K_ACEScg

// Paramount+ / 343 Industries

Halo: The Series

ROLE: Senior FX Technical Director

Sci-fi alien plasma weaponry, hard-surface kinetic impacts, and procedural energy shield deflection networks.

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PARTICLE_COUNT:620 Million Particles

RENDER_ENGINE:Karma XPU / Unreal 5

AVG_FRAME_TIME:14.1 min / Frame

FARM_ALLOCATION:72 Nodes

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VFX_SUPERVISION_STANDARDS.doc

STUDIO_CERTIFIED

01 // On-Set Direction & Lidar

Rigorous on-set data capture: calibrated HDRI chrome ball acquisition, terrestrial LiDAR mesh scanning, lens grid undistortion charts, and camera metadata tracking.

02 // Procedural Solver Scalability

Custom Houdini Digital Assets (HDAs) with embedded OpenVDB level sets, adaptive FLIP domain partitioning, and VEX math routines built for farm parallelization.

03 // Physically Based Finishing

Pure ACEScg spectral lookdev in Solaris USD, deep compositing AOVs, cryptomattes, and photometrically calibrated exposure ramps for seamless live-action integration.

REEL BREAKDOWN OR LOOKDEV INQUIRY?

Direct dispatch available for upcoming feature films and high-end episodic series.

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