showreel
v.2012 (coming soon…)
Being quite busy at work I will more likely update my showreel once I find some spare time :)
v.2010
v.2008
résumé
Position Senior FX Td Company Weta Digital Tasks coming soon… 
Position Senior FX Td Company Weta Digital Tasks Underwater fluids, blood spurts setup 
Position Lead FX Sequence Company Weta Digital Tasks Sand sim, fluid sim, water sim, foam and bubbles sim along with rendering. 
Position Senior FX Td Company Weta Digital Tasks Sand sim, dust sim 
Position Senior FX Td Company Animal Logic Tasks Fleck fields effects, RSL shading, MEL scripts 
Position Senior FX Td Company Moving Picture Company Tasks sand storm research using Flowline. 
Position Senior FX Td Company Moving Picture Company Tasks Underwater explosions using Flowline. 
Position Lead FX Td Company Duran/Duboi Tasks Development instancer/dso, MEL scripts setup, dusts, etc… 
Position Lead FX Td Company Duran/Duboi Tasks Soul effects using particles/fluids 
Position FX Td Company Mikros Images Tasks Mel scripts, shots rendering of lemming crowds with fur. 
Position Comper Company Chaman/Xilam Tasks compositing using Shake.
Experience
Senior FX TD
Weta Digital
Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Motion Pictures and Film industry
October 2010 – October 2012 (2 years 1 month) Wellington, New Zealand
- Houdini POP, DOP
- Houdini L-system, lots of Mantra shading and python
- Fluid simulation for several shows using Naiad / Weta in-house software (Level set processing, particles instancer, SPH solver, etc...) along with Prman renders, Nuke comp, etc...
- Naiad setup development (sand sim setup, splash/bubbles/foam sim, etc..)
- Naiad RnD development (in-house NOP)
- Lead FX Sequence on Tintin.
- Maya Fluid ( explosions, smoke sim, etc...)
Senior FX TD
Animal Logic
Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Motion Pictures and Film industry
October 2009 – August 2010 (11 months) Sydney Area, Australia
Fleck field look-dev on "The Legend of Guardians". Worked in binomial and directly with the RnD guys. Developed the effect on many custom shots, close-up and distance one.
- Custom RSL for the Fleck shader, using PTC lighting.
- procedural particle based animation using inhouse nodal system and Maya.
- MEL scripts, shell and python tools.
Senior FX TD
MPC
Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Motion Pictures and Film industry
November 2008 – May 2009 (7 months) London, United Kingdom
- Prince of Persia : The Sands of Time (director: Mike Newell)
Setup of a Sandstorm FX using Multi Points, Sprites and Flowline (Proprietary Fluid Solver).
- Gi Joe: Rise Of Cobra ( director: Stephen Sommers )
Fluid simulation and rendering of some explosions using Flowline/Mental Ray.
Lead FX TD / Fx Developer R&D
Duran
Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Staffing and Recruiting industry
June 2008 – October 2008 (5 months) Paris, France
- DSO particles development in order to improve the FX pipeline (Maya/Renderman C++).
- Fully automatic MEL scripts for details in fur, particle cache improvement, automatics expressions according to instancer, etc...
- FX on some shots.
- Rendering FX on some shots.
about
French artist/developer passionated by creativity, technology and evolution. Since more than 10 years I’ve been working in the VFX Industry as an FX Technical Director/FX Developer in many companies across the world. If you stumble across my website today you might probably be part of the same industry or just wanna to hire me right ?a little about me…
After completing my postgraduate degree in Computer Science and Digital Image Technology at the University of Paris 8 ATI in 2003, I worked as CG Vfx developer at Sparx* where I set up a fur pipeline developing an in-house Renderman RIBGEN/DSO and some Maya plugins. After many months in the R&D department, I switched to the dark side of the graphic world as CG Technical Director on several commercials using Maya, Renderman, my own Fur tool mentioned earlier and Realflow. After few years in that company, I decided to use my knowledges as a freelancer for different companies in Paris, London, Los Angeles, Duesseldorf, Sydney and finally now in Wellington at Weta Digital.CG Software
- Maya for 10 years.
- Houdini for 3 years (including L-system, FLIP solder, POP, SOP, etc…).
- Naiad solver along with its API.
- Particles, Dynamics (RB), Fluids Simulation (Maya and Flowline).
- Lighting and Fur tools: Renderman, Mental Ray and Mantra.
- Compositing: Nuke, Shake and After Effects.
Coding/Developing
Being graduated from a Computer Science University I mainly learned languages that I didn’t know before to get in. This help me to develop applications and scripts on my every day base work. During these 2 years, I’ve been taught how to think as a computer basically, by doing hours and hours of algorithms concepts.- Languages: C, C++, MEL script, Python, RSL (Renderman Shading Language), Shell language (bash/tcsh), Win32, OpenGL, Cascade, Ajax…
- Pipeline: coded lot of scripts/plugins improving productivity for many companies and stil always used to code in order to help my productivity.
Crossfit
Let’s talk about real stuffs there. Even if I spend hours and hours tweaking my simulation to get the best out of them, I enjoy to move my a** at Crossfit. I’ve been introduced at Crossfit by the owner of Crossfit Central Wellington, where I try to stick to 4 trainings/week, that stuffs is completely INSANE but I LOVE it and make you feel alive, well at least you can discover new muscles every weeks.contact
Hey there, if you’ve got a question about my work or if you just want to say hi, feel free to use the contact form below. And if you have any CG Vfx jobs to offer me I recommend you to have a look at my cv and showreel. Best way to reach me is by email, I’ll be delighted to give you some news.