Julian Davidson

Work History

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  FX Lead

  Animal Logic

  January 2021 - January 2024

  Sydney

  

• Senior Houdini TD

  MethodStudios

  July 2020 - December 2020

  Remote (Australia)
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  FX Lead

  Mill Film

  August 2019 - May 2020

  Adelaide, Australia

  
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  Senior Houdini TD

  UPP

  March 2019 - June 2019

  Prague, Czech Republic
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  Houdini FX TD

  RISE | Visual Effects Studios

  July 2017 - April 2019

  Berlin, Germany
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  Senior Houdini TD

  Cutting Edge

  May 2016 - July 2017

  Brisbane, Australia

  
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  Houdini FX TD

  RISE | Visual Effects Studios

  January 2016 - March 2016

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
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  Houdini TD

  Electric Theatre Collective

  October 2015 - December 2015
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  Houdini TD

  Peerless

  August 2015 - August 2015

  London, United Kingdom

  I spent a few weeks working on London Has Fallen for Peerless, doing lookdev and setup on a pyroFX shot.
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  Houdini TD / Senior Houdini TD

  Realise Studio

  July 2013 - August 2015

  London, United Kingdom

  I worked at Realise Studio for two years on a range of film, tv and advertising projects. Working with a small team I had the opportunity to work on a wide range of effects often taking shots from previs to final renders. The projects I worked on included:
  
  The Salvation (Film). I completed several fire based effects shots on The Salvation. This involved asset development, shading, lighting and rendering, taking them from lookdev to final renders.
  
  Kingsman: The Secret Service (Film). Previs, lookdev, pyro and smoke simulation for comets and trails as well asset development for pipelining the effect.
  
  Da Vinci's Demons (TV). Explosions, ocean fluid simulation and volumetric effects. I also worked on previs, layout, crowd and wire simulations, assets creation, lookdev and rendering.
  
  I also worked on a variety of adverts for clients such as Hyundai, Vuse, Nike and Norman Foster.

  

  

• Technical Diretor

  Studio Mizzi

  July 2015 - July 2015

  London, United Kingdom

  I created some custom artwork for the Yobu store in Bournemouth. This involved designing a custom cloud asset, and rendering a short sequence with Mantra at 6k for printing onto a lenticular display.

• Technical Director

  Studio Mizzi

  June 2012 - June 2012

  London, United Kingdom

  This was an architectural project wherein I was tasked with developing a digital asset to allow the visualisation of the behaviour of an interactive lighting installation. This involved creating a setup in Houdini to mimic the environment it would be used in, developing an asset for the client to preview different light configurations and rendering the visualisation in Maya with Mental Ray.
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  FX Artist

  Double Negative

  June 2011 - November 2011

  
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  FX TD

  Double Negative

  June 2011 - October 2011

  I worked at Double Negative doing crowd sim work for John Carter using Houdini alongside Dneg's propriety crowd tools.
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  Technical Director

  Darkside Animation

  December 2006 - October 2010

  At Darkside I worked on a variety of projects, spanning film, tv and advertising. I originally started as a Maya generalist, but gained experience using a variety of different packages, particularly Modo, Houdini, Project Messiah and Nuke. I also gained experience in a variety of roles from modelling and rigging to lighting and rendering. The main projects I worked on at Darkside were:
  
  Film: The Kitchen Games
  TV: Outcasts, Earthshocks
  Advertising: Clients including LG, Hyundai, Landrover, Network Rail, Comcast and Citiscape.
  
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  VFX Technical Director

  Darkside Studios

  July 2006 - August 2010

  London, United Kingdom