Mark Hennessy-Barrett

Work History

• 3D Artist

  Immersicom

  April 2022 - June 2022
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  Unreal Artist

  Inhance Digital

  January 2021 - October 2021

  Remote

• 3D Animator

  Nostromo Group, LLC

  January 2021 - February 2021

• 3D Artist

  Nostromo Group, LLC

  March 2020 - May 2020

  Home
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  3D Artist

  Monkey Chow Productions

  October 2019 - December 2019
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  CG Artist

  Gradient Effects

  July 2019 - October 2019
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  CG Artist

  VFX Legion

  March 2019 - March 2019

  Burbank, CA
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  CG Artist

  Local Hero Post

  August 2018 - October 2018

  Santa Monica, CA
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  CG Artist

  Undisclosed

  July 2018 - September 2018

  Culver City, CA

  Created smoke effects

• FX Artist

  Take the Bridge

  March 2018 - May 2018

  Remote

• FX Artist

  Jet Propulsion Laboratory

  December 2017 - January 2018

  Remote
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  FX Artist

  Zoic Studios

  September 2017 - December 2017

  Culver Cita, CA
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  VFX Artist

  Synaptic Studios

  April 2017 - July 2017

  Burbank, CA
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  3D Artist - VFX Artist

  Self-employed

  March 2017 - July 2017

  I'm available for work.
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  VFX Artist

  Encore VFX

  October 2016 - June 2017

  Burbank, California

  
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  3d vfx artist

  Encore VFX

  October 2016 - March 2017

  Burbank, CA

  

• VFX Artist

  Freelance 3D Generalist

  April 2016 - September 2016
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  Senior 3D Artist

  Viscira

  September 2014 - April 2016

  San Franscisco
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  VFX Artist

  The Asylum

  October 2013 - June 2014

  Burbank, CA

  As with any full-service job, I'm modelling, texturing, lighting, animating, rendering compositing.
  
  I'm making HUGE amounts of smoke and flame in TurbulenceFD
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  VFX Artist

  The Asylum

  October 2013 - June 2014

  As with any full-service job, I'm modelling, texturing, lighting, animating, rendering compositing.
  I'm making HUGE amounts of smoke and flame in TurbulenceFD

• 3D Animator

  Space Exploration Technologies

  August 2013 - May 2014

  Los Angles, CA

  Creating a 3D animated video showing the utility of SpaceX reusable aerospace assets. CAD model to 3D renderable asset conversion, liasion with engineering staff to ensure the animation followed the correct flight dynamics, generation of open-scale exterior environments and high-end volumetric work.
  Due for delivery shortly. Link to follow.
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  VFX Artist

  Eden FX

  February 2013 - July 2013

  Santa Monica

  Primarily I was working on high-detail assets for the Space Shuttle Atlantis installation at Cape Canaveral, Florida. Aside from creating a high-detail Space Suit and Manned Manouvring Unit, I also contributed several environments and composited CG and live elements.
  This project won a 2013 VES Award in the Outstanding Visual Effects in a Special Venue Project category.
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  3d vfx artist

  CoSA VFX

  September 2012 - December 2012

  Los Angeles, CA

  · Volumetric explosion effects
  · Modeling, texturing, lighting

  
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  Freelance VFX and 3D

  Inhance Digital

  March 2012 - September 2012

  At Inhance, I was divided between two arms. I worked on the TV show Grimm, doing 3D animation and Fusion compositing. I also worked in the Commercials division, creating many animations for military and technical purposes.

• Proprietor

  Imaginetix (UK) Ltd

  1996 - January 2012

  Reading, UK

  It was my shop. I ran it right through the growth phase of 3D animation in the UK. I hired freelancers as needed, chased leads, built a client base, maintained that network and grew it. It was a great time to run an animation company.
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  VFX Artist

  Energia Productions

  August 2011 - October 2011

  Tampere, Finland

  For the film Iron Sky, I was part of a team of highly-dedicated artists, working against a very tight deadline to make this movie look great. I finallized the model of a giant Nazi Moon Base, created several very high-detail explosions and smoke/flame effects and animated various action shots.
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  VFX Artist

  Dilated Pixels

  February 2011 - July 2011

  Extensive compositing work in After Effects, with a fair dollop of 3D animation and asset-wrangling in LightWave3D.

  

• Senior VFX Artist

  Red Earth VFX Studios

  February 2010 - March 2011

  Compositing, rotoscopy, problem wrangling, and just enough 3D work to keep me honest.

  

• Owner

  Imaginetix (UK) Ltd

  1995 - 2010

  I provided 3D animation and visual effects for a vast range of clients, from digital book re-creations and visualization of reactor innards through to dancing ketchup bottles. My clients included the BBC, Ford Motor Company, Sky Television, the British Library (amongst several other academic institutions), Channel 4, Rutherford-Appleton Laboratories, Heinz, The Design Council and many, many others.

• VFX Animator

  Cinethetic

  2009 - 2009

  Compositing with a small touch of 3D animation

• LightWave Trainer

  Corps Business

  1998 - 2009

  Teaching NewTek LightWave 3D to all levels of ability.

• Animator

  Sky Active

  1998 - 2003

  Rapidly moved from 2D element animation in After Effects to introducing Sky Active to 3D graphics and NewTek's LightWave 3D. Over the course of this relationship, I became closely involved with the service and program design team.