Jay Banks

Jay Banks

Mid-level Cloth & Hair TD / 19 yrs

Vancouver, Canada

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Character Effects Animator

The Croods (2013)

Character Effects Animator

Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (2012)

Character Effects Animator

Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011)

Character TD/Cloth

Tangled (2010)

Cloth & Hair TD

Hancock (2008)

CG Effects Artist

I Am Legend (2007)

Cloth & Hair TD

Spider-Man 3 (2007)

Hair Simulation

Open Season (2006)

Cloth And Hair

The Polar Express (2004)

Match Mover

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)

Match Move Lead

Stuart Little 2 (2002)

3-D Track Artist

X-Men (2000)
Work History

  • Character FX TD

    Sony Pictures Imageworks

    February 2015 - Present
    Vancouver, Canada

    Feather and Hair Grooming.
    Vegetation and Grass Simulation.
    Cloth Simulation.

  • Effects Technical Director

    Digital Domain

    September 2014 - October 2014
    Greater Los Angeles Area

    Houdini CVEX Procedural Cloud Shader.
    Houdini CVEX Cloud real-time visualization shader.
    Houdini Volumetric Cloud Geometry setup to convert geometry into custom cloud volumes.
    Houdini Mantra Lighting and AOV rendering.
    Houdini Particle simulations
    Houdini Volumetric Rendering.

  • Effects Technical Director

    Pixomondo

    August 2014 - September 2014
    Santa Monica, CA

    3ds Max Fume FX fire and smoke simulations
    3ds Max Thinking Particles rain and water simulations
    3ds Max Thinking Particles RBD simulations

  • Effects Technical Director

    RGH Themed Entertainment

    March 2014 - May 2014
    Greater Los Angeles Area

    Houdini Millions of Particle Simulation and Instancing
    Houdini RBD Simulation and Rendering
    Houdini Volumetric Rendering
    Houdini and Nuke Deep Compositing
    Houdini Rendering Stereo 3D Dome Projections

  • Senior Houdini FX TD

    Reliance MediaWorks

    April 2013 - October 2013

    Houdini Effects TD for Ocean Toolkit, Fluids, and Pyro simulations.
    Maya Fume FX TD for simulation, smoke and fire simulations.
    Create Maya to Houdini Pipeline.
    Write Python Maya to Nuke Data Exporter.
    Write Python and MEL Procedural Modeling Scripts.

  • Character Effects Developer

    DreamWorks Animation

    May 2010 - April 2013
    Glendale,CA

    Write Python Houdini Scripts for Fur and Hair Dynamic Simulation Pipeline.
    Houdini RBD and Bullet Simulations.
    Houdini CHOPS Procedural Animations.

  • Character TD

    Walt Disney Animation Studios

    2008 - April 2010

    Create Simulation Pipeline for Cloth and Hair.

  • Cloth and Hair TD

    Sony Pictures Imageworks

    February 2005 - June 2008

    Develop Cloth and Hair PIpelines using Python and MEL.

  • Cloth and Hair TD

    Sony Pictures Imageworks

    2005 - 2008
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Education

  • University of Puget Sound

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