Romain Besnard

Romain Besnard

Kaboom, big badaboom

Senior FX Supervisor / Photographer / 17 yrs

Vancouver, Canada

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Lead FX

Black Adam (2022)

Effects Lead / Lead Digital Artist

The Adam Project (2022)

FX Td

DC Super Pets (2022)

FX Td

The Mitchell's vs. The Machines (2021)

FX Td

Fengshen Trilogy (2023)

FX Td

Mulan (2020)

FX Td

The Angry Birds Movie 2 (2019)

Visual Effects Artist

Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)

Club Patron

The Twilight Zone (2019)

Visual Effects Artist

Captain Marvel (2019)

Visual Effects Artist

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)

FX Supervisor

The Flash (2023)

FX TD

Spider-Man Into the Spider Verse

FX TD

Smallfoot (2018)

FX TD

Meg (2018)

Visual Effects Artist

The Emoji Movie (2017)

FX TD

Smurfs: The Lost Village (2017)

FX TD

The Angry Birds Movie (2016)

FX TD

Gods of Egypt (2015)

Fx TD

Terminator: Genisys (2015)

FX TD

Max (2015)

Fx TD

In the Heart of the Sea (2015)

Fx TD

Godzilla (2014)

Fx TD

Transcendence (2014)

FX TD

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)

FX TD / Lead FX sequence

Fast & Furious 6 (2013)

FX TD

Rush (2013)

FX TD

Snow White and the Huntsman (2012)

Crowd

Total Recall (2012)

Character FX

John Carter (2012)

VFX Td

A monster in paris (2011)

Visual Effects Artist

Le Jour où les Huissiers Envahirent l'Univers (2011)

Work History

  • FX Supervisor

    ScanlineVFX - Vancouver, Montreal, LA

    January 2022 - Present
    Vancouver, Canada

    1 - The Flash

    2 - Atlas

  • 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.

  • FX TD

    Animal Logic

    May 2020 - May 2021
    Vancouver, Canada

  • FX TD

    Method Studios

    February 2020 - April 2020
    Melbourne, Australia

  • FX TD

    Sony Pictures Animation

    July 2019 - January 2020
    Vancouver, Canada

  • 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.

  • FX TD

    Sony Pictures Imageworks

    February 2019 - May 2019
    Vancouver, Canada

  • FX TD

    Digital Domain

    November 2018 - January 2019
    Vancouver, Canada

  • FX TD

    Sony Pictures Imageworks

    August 2015 - October 2018
    Vancouver, Canada

  • 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

  • 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

  • Fx TD

    Iloura

    March 2015 - August 2015
    Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

    1 - FX TD "Gods of Egypt"

  • 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

  • Fx TD

    Walking The Dog

    January 2011 - April 2011

    Fx TD on "A Monster In Paris" a 3D animated feature

    Smoke / explosion / dust effect

  • 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)

  • 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

  • Vfx Artist

    Toys Films

    December 2009 - December 2009

    Realflow liquid

  • VFX Artist

    Cube Creative

    September 2009 - December 2009

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

  • VFX Artist

    Mac Guff

    September 2009 - September 2009

    "Mc Donalds" commercial

    _ splash effect with Realflow

  • 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.

  • VFX Artist

    Magic Lab

    February 2009 - February 2009

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

  • 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 :

  • 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

  • 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

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Education

  • BCA FX

    2013 - ?

  • CGSociety : Fume FX Workshop

    2011 - 2011

  • Creapole

    2004 - 2008