Ciaran Moloney

Work History

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  Senior FX Artist

  The Mill

  March 2019 - March 2022

  New York City, NY
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  FX Lead

  TRIXTER

  January 2018 - February 2019

  Munich Area, Germany
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  Senior FX TD

  Industrial Light & Magic

  January 2016 - October 2017

  London, United Kingdom

  

  

  
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  Freelance Houdini TD

  The Mill

  July 2011 - December 2015

  London

  Fluid simulation and rendering. Particle FX. RBD and destruction simulations. Lighting etc...
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  Freelance 3D TD

  Glassworks

  July 2010 - February 2015

  London

  Setting up procedural smashing in Softimage with Momentum and Implosia. Naiad RnD. Setting up a workflow between Naiad and Softimage.
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  Freelance FX TD

  Psyop

  September 2009 - November 2014

  New York

  -Softimage ICE flocking systems, character FX
  -FX artist, R&D and tools for VFX-heavy commercial productions.
  -Lighting,shading, FX and custom procedural modeling tools for a 60 sec stereoscopic spot.
  -Houdini cloud assets and simulation.
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  Crowd TD

  MPC

  August 2013 - July 2014

  London, United Kingdom

  Guardians of the Galaxy.
  Senior Crowd TD, worked on climactic space battle and Starblaster net sequences.
  Built tools to help artists drive flying crowd sequences. Contributed to development of custom crowd behavior (flight control, chasing, shooting, collision detection) and to integration of Softimage simulations into MPCs ALICE framework.
  
  Exodus: Gods and Kings
  Crowd TD

  

  
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  Freelance Lighting TD

  Royale

  June 2013 - August 2013

  Los Angeles

  
  
  
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  TD, Lead Houdini Artist

  Not To Scale

  April 2013 - May 2013

  London, United Kingdom

  
  Houdini fluids. Lighting, pipeline and Royal Render integration.
  
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  Freelance Houdini Artist

  Realise Studio

  February 2013 - March 2013

  London, United Kingdom

  
  
  
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  Freelance FX TD

  Passion Pictures

  May 2010 - May 2012

  London

  
  -Naiad water simulations and Naiad > Softimage pipeline tools.
  -Fluid simulation and tools development. Created fluid simulation assets that could be incorporated into character rigs for straightforward control and manipulation by animators.
  
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  FX and Lighting TD

  Jellyfish Pictures

  October 2010 - May 2011

  
  Built extensive FX sequences and tools for artists.
  Created a pipeline for simulating crowds in Softimage and rendering through Arnold.
  Various small pipeline tools and ICE magic tricks.
  

• Animator

  Deer Lake Films. Dublin.

  May 2010 - August 2010

  
  Animated graphics for IFTA award-winning documentary, Voices from the Grave.
  
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  Freelance FX Artist

  Swiss International

  January 2010 - February 2010

  
  Hired to develop complex fluid FX elements on a short deadline. Developed re-usable FX assets in Softimage ICE. Rendering, compositing and look dev of FX elements.
  

• Digital FX Artist

  XVIVO Scientific Animation

  September 2008 - August 2009

  
  Technical animation, Effects, Tools, R&D, Render management.
  
  Was lead technical artist on or contributed significantly to several high-end scientific and medical animations, including winner of AMI Salon Award 2009 Best New Media (Zirus Antivirotics).
  
  Produced major interactive animation for US's largest science museum.
  

• Research Assistant

  The New York Botanical Garden

  June 2004 - September 2008

  
  Microscopy and digital imaging, exhibit design, journal editing, research.