Adrian Ed Lee

Work History

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  Lead VFX Artist

  Offworld Industries

  January 2023 - Present

  New Westminster, Canada

  
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  Tutor

  CG Masters School of 3D Animation & VFX

  September 2022 - December 2022

  New Westminster, BC, Canada

  DIPLOMA PROGRAM – First Term Dynamics teacher
  - Introducing Houdini dynamics through weekly 2hr Houdini classes for 14 weeks
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  VFX Artist

  Blackbird Interactive Inc

  May 2021 - October 2022

  Vancouver, Canada

  Homeworld3
  -Ship, weapon and environment VFX
  -Tools to make artist lives easier, and effects more performant
  -Unified houdini tool pipeline between artists

  
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  Game VFX Artist

  Beamdog

  June 2020 - April 2021

  Myth Force
  -Making 80's style Saturday morning cartoon magic, fire and death vfx
  -Making people look cool, running away from my explosions.!!.

  
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  VFX artist

  SkyBox Labs

  March 2019 - February 2020

  Burnaby

  VFX artist for Sky Box Lab's upcoming cinematic game "Stela".
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0SRM39d-z8
  
  Authored in Unreal

  

• Intro to Dynamics instructor

  CG Masters School of 3D Animation and Visual effec

  June 2019 - Present

  New Westminster, Canada

  Explaining the basics of Dynamics through Houdini, once a week for 10 weeks

• VFX Instructor

  InFocus

  January 2019 - May 2019

  Vancouver, Canada

  Teach VFX principles and Houdini, once or twice a week for 2.5 hours a time
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  FX Artist

  EA

  March 2018 - March 2019

  Burnaby, Canada

  VFX artist on Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville
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  VFX Artist

  Goldtooth Creative

  October 2017 - November 2017

  Vancouver, Canada

  Houdini super hero VFX passed through to Maya/Arnold for rendering
  Announcement games trailer, "Mad Titan's Wrath" for Marvel/Kabam's "Contest of Champions"
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bilb5i7tCk0
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  VFX Artist

  The Coalition

  June 2017 - September 2017

  Vancouver, Canada

  Used a mixture of Houdini/Houdini engine, maya and Unreal to craft in game vfx
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  Technical Animator

  MPC

  November 2016 - June 2017

  
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  VFX Artist

  FuseFX

  May 2016 - August 2016

  Vancouver, Canada Area

  WORK: TV: Zoo, Salem, Aftermath, for Fall 2016 season
  Repurpose previously used vfx with updated tweaks for short development times. Develop simple vfx rigs. RnD possible techniques for upcoming bids
  • Retime water VFX
  • Repurposed meteor smoke and fire
  • Contrails, heat distortion and sparks
  • Tree growth RND
  • Mist monster RND
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  vfx artist

  United Front Games

  June 2015 - April 2016

  Vancouver, BC

  WORK Smash+Grab (PC early access Sep 16)
  June-December: Sole VFX artist managing , updating and creating new effects in Unity3D.
  December- April; More experienced member of a 2 person VFX team. Creating new content, buff, debuff and weapon vfx,.. etc
  
  -creating all particle effect in Unity for weapons,world, buff and hit effects
  -shader building in shader forge
  - VFX texture making
  - Animated texture sheet generation
  - decal management
  - liaise with whole pipeline for seamless integration of VFX to game
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  Houdini Fx artist

  Hydraulx

  September 2014 - January 2015

  Vancouver, British Columbia

  WORK: Midnight Special (Dir.Nichols, Jeff 2016)
  San Andreas (Dir. Peyton, Brad 2015)
  • RBD distruction
  • Fire
  • Water interaction
  • Tree dynamics
  

  

  

• Original's Cafe Mexicano

  July 2014 - October 2014

  Monitor and maintain social media for cafe business

• Daddy @ Daddy daycare

  Daddy Daycare

  January 2014 - September 2014

  Vancouver

  The trials and tribulations of a toddler.
  Probably one of the most rewarding and precious jobs I have ever done.
  I would recommend it to anyone who has the chance and ability to do it.
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  Junior compositor

  ICON Creative Studio

  February 2014 - February 2014

  Vancouver, British Columbia

  WORK: Unannounced project
  Short contact. 5 days
  •Prepping nuke scenes for Snr compers to finish
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  Houdini FX TD

  Method Studios

  October 2013 - December 2013

  Vancouver, Canada Area

  WORK: Maze Runner (Dir. Ball, Wes 2014)
  •Houdini smoke volumes and particles.

  

• Daddy

  Daddy Daycare

  June 2013 - October 2013

  Down time for looking after the little one.
  Probably one of the most rewarding and precious jobs I have ever done.
  I would recommend it to anyone who has the chance and ability to do it.
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  Prime Focus World

  March 2013 - May 2013

  WORK: White House Down (Dir. Emmerich, Roland 2013)
  •RBD, fluid and particle fx

  
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  VFX TD

  Western Post

  September 2012 - March 2013

  Vancouver, Canada Area

  WORK: Super Buddies (Dir. Vince, Robert 2013)
  • Asset creation and shot deployment
  • Maya fluid and particle fx
  • Maya paintfx noodling
  • Mel scripting

• Fx Technical artist

  Digital Domain / Reliance Media Works

  February 2012 - July 2012

  London

  WORK: G.I. Joe: Retaliation (Dir: Chu, Jon Mu 2013)
  • Battlefield fluid fx (Maya)
  • Vehicle particle fx (Maya)
  • Vehicle particle fx (Maya)
  WORK: Cosmos
  • Astrological starfield and nebula r’n’d (Houdini)
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  VFX TD

  Pixomondo

  December 2011 - February 2012

  London, United Kingdom

  WORK: Hunger Games (Dir: Ross, Gary)
  • Asset scripting
  
  WORK: Game of Thrones (TV)
  • Body fluid fx
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  FX Technical Director (Houdini)

  Cinesite

  October 2011 - December 2011

  WORK: John Carter of Mars (Dir: Stanton, Andrew 2012)
  • Volumetric and particle fx
  • Roto (Mocha)

  
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  Double Negative

  November 2009 - September 2011

  WORK: John Carter of Mars (Dir: Stanton, Andrew 2012)
  Captain America: The First Avenger (Dir: Johnston, Joe 2011)
  Harry Potter: Deathly Hallows pt1 and pt2 (Dir: Yates, David 2010/11)
  The Sorcerer's Apprentice (Dir: Turteltaub, Jon 2010)
  Ironman 2 (Dir: Favreau, Jon 2010)
  • Proprietary fluid fx
  • Houdini asset creation
  • Particle and crowd fx

  

  

  

  

  
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  Houdini Artist

  Axis Animation

  June 2009 - July 2009

  Glasgow, United Kingdom

  WORK: Singularity (Intro FMV) (Pub. Activision Publishing, Inc. 2009)
  • Houdini fluid fx
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  Houdini DFX TD

  Framestore

  May 2009 - June 2009

  WORK: DJ Hero (Intro FMV) (Pub. Activision Publishing, Inc. 2009)
  • Houdini particle and fluid fx

• 3d Generalist

  PEERLESS CAMERA COMPANY LIMITED

  February 2008 - January 2009

  WORK: The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus (Dir. Gilliam, Terry 2009)
  Push (McGuigan, Paul 2009)
  The Secret of Moonachre (Dir. Csupo, Gabor 2009)
  • Houdini fluid and particle fx
  • Application of in house assets

• XSI Jnr Lighter

  Pineapple squared entertainment ltd

  February 2008 - February 2008

  Shepperton Studios UK

  WORK: Orsum Island (TV Dir. Lane, David)
  • lighting CG characters to match real life sets

• Freelance DFX - TD

  Dryrain Studios - Freelance DFX TD

  November 2007 - January 2008

  particle herding, fluid splashing, walls a'smashing

• Dryrain Studios - Freelance DFX TD

  November 2007 - January 2008

  particle herding, fluid splashing, walls a'smashing
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  Junior TD

  Realise Studio

  June 2007 - October 2007

  WORK: Bacardi “Mojito”(Commercial, Dir. Rutterford, Alex 2007)
  Telegraph “Horrible Stories – The Victorians” (Commercial, 2007)
  Telegraph “Horrible Stories – Cave Man” (Commercial, 2007 )
  Bacardi “Base Bins” (Commercial, Dir. Rutterford, Alex 2007)
  • Houdini creation and asset management
  • Remote artist liaison and QC
  • Matchmove
  • On location VFX data collection
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  Cinesite

  April 2006 - June 2007

  SELECTED WORK: The Golden Compass(Dir. Weitz, Chris 2007)
  Underdog (Dir. Du Chau, Frederik 2007)
  Casino Royal (Dir. Campbell, Martin 2006)
  • Management of render queues
  • Pipeline policy enforcement
  • Conversion, backup, importing and exporting of film files

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

• Call center monkey

  British Gas and Scottish Widows

  January 2003 - October 2004

  Edinburgh, United Kingdom

• Wine seller and server

  The Great Grog Company

  May 2002 - December 2002

  Edinburgh, United Kingdom

  Reccommend, serve and sell a number of new world wines to the general public

• Head Concierge

  TENsq, Belfast, NI.

  July 2001 - April 2002

  As head concierge of a new boutique hotel in Belfast, it was my job to fulfil the guest’s expectations of the hotel and advise them on local attractions. Other duties included valet, bell and room service and receptionist (dealing with reservations and phone enquiries).

• Concierge

  The Broadmoor

  April 2000 - April 2001

  Colorado Springs, Colorado Area

  Responsibilities included assisting guests in organising their stay with recomendations of restaurant, activity to do and places of interest.

• Gallery Curator

  Clearspot Gallery, Belfast, NI.

  May 1999 - April 2000

  Jointly managed and curated this gallery for up and coming artists. Dealing with funding, advertising, the artists show management and entertainment.