Romain Besnard

Work History

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  FX Supervisor

  ScanlineVFX

  January 2022 - Present

  Vancouver, Canada

  1 - The Flash
  
  2 - Atlas

  
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  Lead FX

  ScanlineVFX

  May 2021 - January 2022

  Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

  2 - DC "Black Adam"
  
  1 - The Adam Project : managing a teams of 6-8 artists who create various type of effects like decloaking, thrusters, tracers, sparks, core flow.
  Using automation/miltishots system.
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  FX TD

  Animal Logic

  May 2020 - May 2021

  Vancouver, Canada

  
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  FX TD

  Method Studios

  February 2020 - April 2020

  Melbourne, Australia
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  FX TD

  Sony Pictures Animation

  July 2019 - January 2020

  Vancouver, Canada
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  Senior Fx TD

  Sony Pictures Animation

  September 2019 - January 2020

  Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

  2 - "The Mitchells vs The Machines" aka Connected : look-dev freeze ray gun, destruction
  
  1 - "Angry Birds 2" : helping temporarily the fx team with some sands shots effect.
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  FX TD

  Sony Pictures Imageworks

  February 2019 - May 2019

  Vancouver, Canada
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  FX TD

  Digital Domain

  November 2018 - January 2019

  Vancouver, Canada
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  FX TD

  Sony Pictures Imageworks

  August 2015 - October 2018

  Vancouver, Canada
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  Senior Fx TD

  Sony Pictures Animation

  November 2017 - October 2018

  Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

  2 - FX TD "Spider-man : Into the Spider-verse" : creatings inklines, custom spiderwebs, destructions and various other effects.
  
  1 - FX TD "Smallfoot" :
  _ creating automated template to be batched through multiple shots, like sticky snow on fur/cloth.
  _ creating dogshake effects on various shots
  _ creating trees interactions effects on various shots
  _ custom plants interactions
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  Fx TD

  Sony Pictures Imageworks

  September 2017 - October 2017

  Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

  1 - FX TD "The Meg" :
  _ creating various types of underwater effects as, spitting oil from engine, cavitation
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  Fx TD

  Iloura

  March 2015 - August 2015

  Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

  1 - FX TD "Gods of Egypt"

  
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  Fx TD

  Double Negative

  May 2011 - February 2015

  London, England, United Kingdom

  11 - Fx TD "Terminator: Genisys"
  
  10 - Fx TD "MAX" : setting up large scale volume simulations for two hero shots
  
  9 - Fx TD "Heart of the Sea" : worked on one hero shot involving lots of water/white water simulation, shots required destruction, rbd, smoke simulation
  
  8 - Fx TD "Godzilla" : jumped in for a short time and helped deliver various fx shots as rbd destruction, drawl, smoke simulation
  
  7 - Fx TD "Transcendence" : jumped in for a short time doing a slow motion smoke simulation, and various nano technologies effect for TEMP delivery
  
  6 - Fx TD "Hunger Games : Catching Fire" : worked on the last sequence on the show, doing trees layout, lighting (using mantra), using trees rbd to setup smoke simulation.
  
  5 - Lead FX sequence "The Freeway Chase" on "Fast and Furious 6" : responsible of the all sequence, creating various setup as dust/smoke simulation, sparks, rbd destruction setup
  
  4 - Fx TD on "Rush" : using rbd setup for cars destructions
  
  3 - Fx TD on "Total Recall" : using car/elevator crowd setup on various shots
  
  2 - Fx TD on "Snow White and the Huntsman" : using rbd setups to create four different shots for the shards monster.
  
  1 - Fx TD on "John Carter on Mars" : using cloth and fur setup on various shots

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
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  Fx TD

  Walking The Dog

  January 2011 - April 2011

  Fx TD on "A Monster In Paris" a 3D animated feature
  
  Smoke / explosion / dust effect
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  VFX Artist

  Cube Creative

  May 2010 - January 2011

  Working on 3d animated feature : "Walibi" Show
  _ cleaning
  _ vfx : particles effects (explosion, etc...)
  _ vfx : smoke with fumefx
  
  "Walibi SkunX" Trailer
  _ rendering
  
  Working on 3d animated commercial : "Quickos"
  _ VFX : smoke, dust
  _ Editing
  
  Working on 3d animated feature : "Dimension 3"
  _ VFX : smoke dust/burst and fluid effect (geyser)
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  VFX Artist

  Cube Creative

  February 2010 - March 2010

  Paris Area, France

  Working on 3d animated feature : "Monaco" Project, for Expo 2010 Shanghai China
  _ Runner photo for matte-painting
  _ FX/TD : fumefx, stockshot
  _ Compositing

• FX/TD

  Aoki Studio

  January 2010 - January 2010

  _ fx/TD : smoke, smoke dust with fumefx

• Fx TD

  Kayenta

  December 2009 - December 2009

  Car manufacturer - PSA Peugeot Citroen : Show
  
  _ 3D effect with particle, using Krakatoa
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  Vfx Artist

  Toys Films

  December 2009 - December 2009

  Realflow liquid
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  VFX Artist

  Cube Creative

  September 2009 - December 2009

  "Monaco" Project for Expo 2010 Shanghai China
  _ Runner Photo & research for textures, cloths, weapons
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  VFX Artist

  Mac Guff

  September 2009 - September 2009

  "Mc Donalds" commercial
  
  _ splash effect with Realflow
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  CG Artist

  Cube Creative

  May 2009 - August 2009

  "Les Huissiers"
  _ VFX : smoke effect with fumefx
  
  "La Poste" Commercial
  _ modeling / texturing / animation / rendering / compositing / editing
  
  "Schokobons" Commercial
  _ modeling / texturing / rendering

• CG Artist

  Ligh & Shadows

  April 2009 - May 2009

  "PSA" Car manufacturer - PSA Peugeot Citroën
  
  _ Lighting / Rendering

• CG Artist

  Artrak

  February 2009 - April 2009

  Working on 3d animated feature : "Johnny Hallyday" Show
  
  create a full sequence with fire.
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  VFX Artist

  Magic Lab

  February 2009 - February 2009

  Working on 3d animated feature : "Orpheus" Project
  explosion, fumefx, crowd
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  CG Artist

  Cube Creative

  September 2008 - January 2009

  Working on 3d ride feature : "ECODINGO" 3D Movie for the Futuroscope
  _ Modeling & SFX
  
  Working on 3d animated commercial : "Wahou"
  _ Cloth
  
  Working on 3d animated feature : "Freej" Theme Parc
  _ Cloth / Lighting / Compositing :
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  CG Artist

  Magic Lab

  May 2008 - September 2008

  Working on 3d animated feature : "Orpheus" short animation film
  _ VFX & Cloth
  
  "Peugeot Project" Car manufacturer
  _ Car rigging with Craft Animation
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  CG Artist

  Cube Creative

  January 2008 - April 2008

  Working on 3d animated feature : "Freej Show"
  
  cloth / vray rendering / compositing

• Internship

  Aoki

  June 2007 - September 2007

  CG Animator, 3D architectur, Compositing, Rendering