Alex Stephan

Alex Stephan

Supervisor FX Supervisor / Senior FX Artist

Toronto, Canada

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FX Supervisor

Abby Hatcher (2018)

VFX Supervisor

True and the Rainbow Kingdom (2017)

FX Artist

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny (2016)

FX Artist

Fantastic Four (2015)

CG Artist

Maps to the Stars (2015)

Pixomondo

Sleepy Hollow (2013)

Visual Effects Supervisor

Paw Patrol (2013)

FX TD

Thor (2011)

Technical Director

Gnomeo & Juliet (2011)

Effects

Dolphin Tale (2011)

Effects Technical Director

The Banquet (2008)

Artist

Max Payne (2008)

Sr. Fx Technical Director

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)

Lighting Department

Alone in the Dark (2005)

Senior Technical Director

Troy (2004)

3D Animator

Chicago (2003)

Lead Animator

Jason X (2002)

Visual Effects Artist

Panic Room (2002)

CG Effects Animator

The Time Machine (2002)

3D Animator

The Cell (2000)

Animator

Doctor Dolittle (1998)

Digital Effects Artist

Lexx: The Dark Zone Stories (1997)

Work History

  • vfx Supervisor

    Guru Studio

    December 2015 - Present

  • Sr. vfx Artist

    SPIN VFX

    June 2014 - September 2014
    Toronto, Canada

  • 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

  • FX TD

    Digital Domain

    November 2010 - March 2011

    Effects animation, rigid body simulation for feature film "Thor"

  • 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".

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • Sr. Technical Director

    Realise Studio

    2003 - 2003

    Fluid simulation, FX animation, FX design, particle animation, CG lighting for commercials

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Technical Director

    Nelvana

    January 1998 - December 1999

  • 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.

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Education

  • Hochschule fuer Gestaltung Offenbach

    1991 - 1994

  • Universität Duisburg-Essen, Standort Essen

    1989 - 1991