Sebastian van Hesteren

Sebastian van Hesteren

Senior Generalist TD / Mid-level FX TD/Pipeline TD / 15 yrs

Utrecht, Netherlands

Hire Me

FX TD

Passengers (2016)

FX Artist

Pettersson und Findus 2 - Das schönste Weihnachten überhaupt (2016)

Maya Pipeline TD

Night of a 1000 Hours (2016)

Fx Artist

Pettersson und Findus - Kleiner Quälgeist, große Freundschaft (2014)

Fx Artist

Game of Thrones (2011)

Visual Effects Artist

Dorst (2018)

3D Artist

Life is beautiful (2022)

Work History
  • Full-Stack webdeveloper

    Brightin

    March 2018 - Present
    Utrecht Area, Netherlands
  • Pipeline TD / FX TD

    Filmmore

    October 2016 - April 2017
    Amsterdam

    Maintaining and upgrading existing local and global vfx pipeline on linux with ftrack, bash and python.
    Next to that doing various FX.

  • FX TD

    MPC

    June 2016 - August 2016
    London, United Kingdom

    Created FX with particles and fluids for "Passengers".

  • FX TD

    Edisen

    July 2015 - April 2016
    Frankfurt Am Main Area, Germany

    Cloth simulation, Blanket and Pillow sim rig setup, various scripts, tools and UI's in Python and Mel and a custom deformer in C++ with maya API for the feature film
    “Pettersson und Findus 2 - Das schönste Weihnachten überhaupt”

  • Maya Pipeline TD

    Filmmore

    November 2014 - March 2015
    Amsterdam

    Setting up a maya pipeline for the movie "The night of the 1000 hours" with the help of for ex. Mel and Python under Linux. Next to this I'm doing other 3D generalist tasks as well.

  • Rigging and pipeline TD.

    X60 CGI Dubai

    October 2014 - October 2014
    Dubai, United Arab Emirates
  • 3D Generalist

    Topalsson GmbH & Co. KG

    May 2014 - May 2014
    Munich Area, Germany

    Shading, rendering in Vray, rigging, animation, scripting for various Audi and BMW projects.

  • Fx Artist

    Pixomondo

    January 2014 - March 2014
    Frankfurt Am Main Area, Germany
  • 3D Generalist

    Wenneker.tv

    October 2013 - January 2014
    Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

    Various commercial projects for Philips.

  • Fx Artist

    Pixomondo

    August 2013 - September 2013
    Frankfurt Area, Germany
  • 3D Artist

    Fube

    June 2013 - August 2013
    Utrecht

    Rendering and technical support in Maya for the animated short:
    Life is beautiful.

    https://vimeo.com/76127035

  • Technical 3D artist

    Media.Monks

    July 2011 - June 2011
    Hilversum
Education
  • Computer Programming

    Codaisseur Academy, Amsterdam

    2017 - 2018
  • Technische Informatica

    Hogeschool INHOLLAND

    ? - ?
  • Bachelor

    Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht

    ? - ?