Visual Effects Artist

Visual Effects Artist — Apex Digital FX

Los Angeles, CA | January 2024 – Present

• Designed and simulated high-fidelity fluid, smoke, and destruction effects for 3 major television series, achieving a 95% client approval rating on initial presentation.
• Developed 12 custom Houdini digital assets (HDAs) for procedural environment generation, reducing layout artist simulation setup time by 28% across 4 production teams.
• Optimized Nuke compositing scripts and rendering pipeline bottlenecks, reducing average frame render times by 19% and saving $32,000 in monthly cloud computing fees.
• Collaborated with 8 downstream modelers and lighting leads to troubleshoot asset export workflows, cutting visual integration revision cycles by 22% during production.

Associate Visual Effects Artist — Mirage Effects Studio

Culver City, CA | August 2021 – December 2023

• Executed particle and dust simulation effects for 14 national commercial campaigns, consistently meeting all production deadlines with a 98% on-time delivery rate.
• Prepared 180+ green screen plates using clean plate paint and rotoscoping workflows in Nuke, accelerating the compositing team's layout schedule by 15% overall.
• Organized and labeled 500+ digital VFX assets and references in ShotGrid, decreasing daily file retrieval times by 35% for a team of 16 studio artists and animators.
• Contributed to 25 weekly creative reviews with art directors and compositing leads, helping implement feedback loops that reduced final render revisions by 20%.

Fluid simulation, Particle systems, Destructive simulations, Compositing, Rotoscoping, Color matching, Procedural modeling, Matte painting, Python scripting, Houdini, Nuke, Maya, Adobe Photoshop, Unreal Engine, ShotGrid, Git

Sci-Fi Action Film 'Dark Matter'

Role: VFX Fluid Simulation Lead

Tools: Houdini, Nuke, Python

Simulated 5 complex underwater vortex scenes, saving 3 weeks of production time and cutting rendering pipeline expenses by $18,000.

Cyberpunk Game Cinematic

Role: VFX Artist

Tools: Unreal Engine, Houdini, Maya

Created 18 real-time particle and lighting effects, achieving 60 FPS on target consoles and reducing asset load times by 22% overall.

• SideFX Houdini Certified Artist (2022)
• Foundry Certified Nuke Trainer (2023)

• Languages: English (Native), French (Conversational)
• Volunteer Work: Virtual effects workshop instructor for local high school media clubs (2022-present)
• Availability: 2 weeks notice