Full Work History
Weta FX - Junior Lighting Technical Director
Aug 2024 - Current
-Coral 3: Working on lighting shots to pass onto comp for final images, along with diagnostic work
Weta FX - Lighting ATD
Dec 2023 - Aug 2024
-Coral 3: Assisting lighting department in diagnostic work, fx run out, and lighting work
-Loaned over through ATD department
Weta FX - Lighting ATD
Jul 2023 - Dec 2023
-Marvel Project ROC: Aided in scene diagnostic work, shot lighting, pipeline debugging, layout diagnositc, client renders, and more
-Loaned over through ATD department
Weta FX - Layout (Postvis) JTD
Jul 2023 - Aug 2023
-Marvel Project ROC: Aided Layout in processing and deliverying an estimate of 350 shots to client for postvis
-Loaned over through ATD department
Weta FX - Lighting ATD (Previs)
Jul 2023 - Aug 2023
-Marvel Project ROC: Aided lighting in client delivery for previs scenes, along with diagnostic setup for lighting renders to aid in show renders
-Loaned over through ATD department
Weta FX - Hard Surface 3D Modeller
Feb 2023 - Jun 2023
-Transformers Rise of the Beast (uncredited): Final fight Seq control console and damaged model varients
-Our Flag Means Death (HBO Max) (uncredited): Asset prep, and contact geo
-Rebel Moon (Netflix) (uncredited): Large Ship interior hanger bay
-Carry On (Netflix) (uncredited): Dressing components of sorting room
-Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (uncredited): Contact geo
Weta FX - Junior Layout Technical Director
Feb 2022 - Oct 2022
-Worked on Avatar 2 doing the full suite of Layout tasks, along with training new hires
-Procedural Dressing
-Shot Roughing
-Shot Blocking
Weta FX - Assistant Technical Director
Jun 2021 - Feb 2022
-Render ATD (Avatar2): Aug 2021 - Dec 2021 - Assisting Lighting department with lighting render diagnostics
-Layout ATD (Avatar2): Jan 2022 - Feb 2022 - Assisting Layout department with rough tasks
-ATD intake assistant trainer: Mar 2022 - May 2022 - Training Generation 9 of ATDs that were starting at the company, and getting them upto speed with internal systems
VAKA - Creative Lead
Oct 2020 - Jun 2021
-Working on the full production pipeline, along with crew and financial management and creative decision maker
VAKA - Lead Technical Artist
Feb 2020 - Jun 2021
-Lead Technical Artist in charge of making technical Decision and problem solving for unique projects
Victoria University - Teaching Assistant
Feb 2020 - May 2020
-ANFX201 Animation and Visual Effects II - Teaching the 3D Modeling, Animation, Texturing pipeline
-MDDN351 Wearable Technologies - Teaching Arduino Coding, Costume and Prop design and Electronics planning and construction
ONEFARM LTD - 3D Artist/Yard Design/Site Engineer
Nov 2019 - Present
-Working to create “realistic” product renders, along with designing large scale yards for farmers
Psychoactive Studios - Technical Artist Intern
Nov 2019 - Feb 2020
-Worked as a intern, along a team to create a 3D interactive website, using WebGL, and my skills in 3D to create the assets
Victoria University - Teaching Assistant
Feb 2019 - Jun 2019
-MDDN241 3D Modeling and Animation 200 Level, teaching aspects of 3D modeling and animation and VR scene programming and taught aspects of Texturing to a class of 50+ with Substance Painter
HIAMO LTD - 3D Artist
Nov 2018 - Nov 2018
-Worked as a contracted 3D artist for an AR app development project. Work ranges from 3D modeling, Look Development, Animation.