Michael Sun

Work History

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  Parttime Professor

  Centennial College

  September 2019 - Present

  Toronto, Canada Area
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  Senior FX Artist

  Folks VFX

  September 2024 - January 2025
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  Senior FX Artist

  Digic Pictures

  March 2024 - September 2024
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  Senior FX Artist

  Sony Pictures Imageworks

  October 2022 - February 2024
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  FX Supervisor

  Mikros Animation

  November 2021 - October 2022

  Montreal, Canada
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  Sony Pictures Entertainment

  August 2021 - November 2021

  
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  Senior FX Artist

  Sony Pictures Imageworks

  August 2021 - November 2021

  Vancouver, Canada
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  Effects Lead

  Tangent Animation

  December 2019 - August 2021

  Toronto, Canada

  Maya and the Three
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  FX Artist

  Pixomondo

  October 2018 - October 2019

  Toronto, Canada
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  Lead FX artist

  Pixomondo

  July 2019 - October 2019

  Toronto, Canada Area

  The Mandolorian
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  FX Artist

  Pixomondo

  August 2016 - October 2018

  Toronto, Canada Area

  
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  FX Artist

  Toonbox Entertainment

  February 2013 - October 2013

  Toronto, Canada Area

  The Nut Job

  
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  Senior Fx Artist

  Rainmaker Entertainment

  October 2012 - February 2013

  Vancouver

  Escape from planet earth
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  FX artist

  Goldtooth Creative

  May 2012 - October 2012

  Vancouver, Canada Area

  Highend game cinematic.
  Crysis 3 Opening Cinematic
  Batman: Arkham Origins
  Other unannounced game cinematics.

  
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  FX artist

  Rainmaker Entertainment

  January 2012 - May 2012

  Vancouver, Canada Area

  FX artist on feature animation: Escape from planet Earth
  Responsible for creating effects such as: snow, ice, smoke/dust, slime trails, and debris.

  
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  Fx Artist/TD

  Modus FX

  2010 - 2011

  Montreal, Canada Area

  FX artist/TD on cinematics for the game FEAR 3
  FX artist/TD on March of the Dinosaurs (BBC)
  FX artist on feature film Immortals
  Responsible for creating, lighting and rendering all types of effects, including fire, smoke, steam, debris, volcano eruption, snow, rain, flying paper and ash, bubbles, and others.
  Pre-comping, and generating a first pass of composite for the compositors
  Testing internal tools and help build a better pipeline
  Attending dailies and meetings to develop and reiterate effects
  Softwares used include: Maya, Houdini, 3ds max, fumfx, XSI, NUKE, and filemaker

  
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  FX artist

  Freelance

  2008 - 2009

  Toronto, Canada Area

  Visual Effect Artist on Dinocroc vs. Supergator
  Responsible for creating, lighting and rendering boulder explosion, dust plumes, debris
  Visual Effect Artist on The House That Jack Built
  Responsible for creating, lighting and rendering blood squirts, matchmove, and blood mists
  Visual Effect Artist on Tommy and the Cool Mule
  Responsible for creating, lighting and rendering sparkles, distortion trails, and particles.
  Smirnoff Logo
  Responsible for creating, lighting, rendering and modeling Smirnoff logo, shattering it, creating ice shader
  US Navy project
  Responsible for creating, lighting and rendering explosion, dust waves, shock waves, composite with live action footage with 3D in mind
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  Visual effect Artist

  Authority FX, Inc.

  2008 - 2008

  Visual Effect Artist on Fire from Below
  Visual Effect Artist on Pearblossom
  Responsible for creating, lighting and rendering many different effects, including fire, smoke, dust storms, dust,, debris, shattering skeletons, explosions and underwater explosions
  Responsible for animating objects to generate effects from
  Look developed effects from the ground up with the VFX supervisor
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  CG artist

  Super 78 Studios

  2007 - 2007

  CG artist on Ben 10: Race Against Time
  Responsible for generating, lighting, rendering, and shading all types of effects, including: shatter effects, particles, sparks, and fire.
  Delivered high quality effects in short time and on time
  Software used includes: 3ds max, NUKE, fumfx