I have worked as a profession visual effects trainer since 2006.

Below I have listed my main accomplishments for your interested.

• Industrial Light and Magic, Senior Training (CURRENT POSITION)

  • Teaching new hires and existing artist.  

  • Areas include Creature Development, Generalists and Environment artists.  

  • Software includes Maya, 3dsMax, V-Ray, RenderMan, Nuke, Block Party (proprietary), and Zeno (proprietary).

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• Visual Effects Society

  • Wrote the Compositing section for the 3rd edition of 'The VES Handbook of Visual Effects: Industry Standard VFX Practices and Procedures'.

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• MPC, University Technical Lead

  • Headed up the technical side of MPC's in-house training program called 'MPC University'.

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• MPC, Lead Lighting Trainer

  • Wrote and taught the MPC Lighting Academy curriculum used to teach new Junior artists.

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• Sphere VFX, Director

  • Ran a visual effects based training company which offering bespoke training around the world.  

  • Clients including Framestore, DreamWorks Animation, Digital Domain, Cinesite, Animal Logic, Ghost VFX, Prime Focus, and Sony Pictures Imageworks.

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• SkillSet, through Sphere VFX

  • Taught staff in the main universities across England offering visual effects courses.

  • Produced a 10 module visual effects course to help support university visual effects courses.

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• Foundry, through Sphere VFX

  • Was the official preferred Nuke and Katana trainer for Foundry, offering training around the world, on behalf of the company.

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• Eyeon Software, through Sphere VFX

  • Was the official preferred Fusion trainer for Eyeon Software, offering training across Europe, on behalf of the company.

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• Solid Angle, through Sphere VFX

  • Was the official preferred Arnold trainer for Solid Angle, offering training around the world, on behalf of the company.

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• Pixar, through Sphere VFX

  • Accredited RenderMan trainer.

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• fxphd and Foundry, through Sphere VFX

  • Wrote, recorded and taught the Nuke for Trainers course for the Foundry.

  • All Foundry Nuke accredited trainers, internationally, have been trained by myself.

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• University of South Wales, Lecturer

  • ​Wrote and taught their initial Masters Degree in Visual Effects.

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• fxphd

  • Recorded and taught nearly 300 classes covering various visual effects software tools and techniques.

  • These include: Maya, Modo, Katana, Render Ray, Arnold, Nuke, Fusion, and Toxik. 

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