Alex Stephan

Work History

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  vfx Supervisor

  Guru Studio

  December 2015 - Present
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  Sr. vfx Artist

  SPIN VFX

  June 2014 - September 2014

  Toronto, Canada

  

  
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  VFX Artist

  Switch VFX

  October 2013 - November 2013

  Toronto, Canada Area

  Computer generated Fire and smoke animation for feature film using Fume Fx

• Houdini cgi and vfx

  Axyz

  August 2011 - June 2013

  Toronto, Canada Area

  Effects animation, physical based lighting and rendering for Commercials in houdini
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  FX TD

  Digital Domain

  November 2010 - March 2011

  Effects animation, rigid body simulation for feature film "Thor"
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  Lead Technical Director

  Starz Animation

  January 2009 - October 2010

  Lead a team of artist in generating trees, ivy and other foliage 3D artwork in Maya and Houdini, for CG animated feature film "Gnomeo and Juliet".

  
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  VFX Technical Director

  SPIN VFX

  March 2008 - December 2008

  Responsible for writing and maintaining a renderman shader library for feature film CG animation,

• Sr. FX TD

  Technicolor Creative Services

  October 2005 - December 2006

  Effects animation on various feature film projects. Responsibilities: effects design and particle animation, rendering pipeline, scripting, crowd simulation, procedural tree generation using l-systems.
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  Sr. Fx Technical Director

  MPC

  2004 - 2005

  Fluid Effects animation for “Charlie and the chocolate Factory”. Created fluid effects using Maya, Houdini and Realflow developed fluid simulation methodologies and trained other TDs. Responsibilities: effects design and particle animation/fluid simulation.

  
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  Sr. Technical Director

  Framestore

  October 2003 - April 2004

  Lighting and rendering on “Troy”. Responsibilities included: FX design, particle animation, CG lighting, rendering, Renderman shader writing
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  Sr. Technical Director

  Realise Studio

  2003 - 2003

  Fluid simulation, FX animation, FX design, particle animation, CG lighting for commercials
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  Sr. Digital Artist

  Digital Domain

  2001 - 2002

  FX animation and Shader development for the feature film “Time Machine” using Houdini and Renderman. FX design, CG lighting, Procedural/particle animation of time-lapse effects of natural phenomena.

  
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  Lighting Supervisor/Sr. TD

  Toybox

  1999 - 2001

  Created CG using Houdini and Renderman for the feature films “Chicago”, “Panic Room”, “The Cell”. FX design, CG lighting in Renderman shader writing.
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  Technical Director

  Nelvana

  January 1998 - December 1999
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  3D animator

  C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures

  1995 - 1997

  Effects Animation, modeling and lighting for feature Film “Dr. Doolittle” FX design, modeling, animation, CG lighting.