Kevin Pinga

Work History

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  Houdini FX TD

  Ingenuity Studios, LLC

  April 2022 - July 2023

  Los Angeles, California, United States · Remote

  Remote from Malaysia
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  Houdini Key Artist

  MPC Film & Episodic

  December 2021 - March 2022

  Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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  Houdini FX Artist

  Universal Production Partners

  March 2021 - December 2021

  Prague, Czechia · Remote

  Remote from Malaysia
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  Houdini FX Artist

  FuseFX

  August 2019 - May 2020

  Greater Los Angeles Area
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  Houdini FX artist

  Luma Pictures

  April 2019 - June 2019

  Santa Monica

  Creating and deploying FX setups
  ‣Spiderman: Far From Home

  
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  Houdini FX TD

  Ingenuity Studios

  April 2018 - April 2019

  Hollywood, CA

  Creating efficient FX setups across multiple FX disciplines such as pyro, RBDs, grains, POPs etc
  
  TV Shows
  ‣Marvel's Runaways
  ‣Brooklyn Nine-Nine
  ‣Speechless
  
  Music Videos
  ‣Billie Eilish: Bury a Friend
  ‣Eminem Feat. Joyner Lucas: Lucky You
  ‣Shawn Mendes: In My Blood
  
  **see IMDb page for more projects
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  Houdini FX artist

  Zoic Studios

  April 2018 - April 2018

  Culver City

  Marvel's Legion - Season 2
  ‣Small scale fluid simulation for an episode
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  Houdini FX artist

  Ingenuity Studios

  August 2017 - April 2018

  Hollywood

  ‣Creating and optimizing effects for television shows and music videos
  ‣Effects include pyro simulations, rigid body dynamics, fluids, particles and SOP solver effects
  ‣Promoting procedural setups and optimized workflows
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  Houdini FX artist

  Gradient Effects

  July 2017 - August 2017

  Greater Los Angeles Area

  The Last Ship - Season 4
  
  ‣Large scale Pyro explosions and FLIP simulations
  ‣Lighting and rendering FX passes and assembling temp comps before hand-off

  
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  Visual Effects Tutor

  Savannah College of Art and Design

  October 2016 - May 2017

  ‣ Providing assistance for course-related concepts and promoting independent problem-solving
  ‣ Tutoring for Houdini, Maya, Nuke, Python, Linux and Adobe Creative Suite
  
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  Visual Effects Intern

  Sidefx Software

  April 2016 - August 2016

  Santa Monica

  ‣ Creating fluid effects, rigid body simulations and cloth simulations for use as marketing content
  ‣ Using Houdini in conjunction with Unreal Engine to create game ready effects
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  Secretary - ACM SIGGRAPH Atlanta Student Chapter

  ACM SIGGRAPH Atlanta Student Chapter

  September 2014 - March 2016

  Atlanta, GA

  ‣ Coordinated with council members to arrange events that benefit other members including workshops, tutorials, presentations and talks from professionals within the industry.
  ‣ Composed and proofread emails, notices and reports for the chapter.
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  Media Consultant - Revamp Strategies

  Revamp Strategies, LLC

  January 2013 - 2014

  Atlanta, GA

  ‣ Created promo videos for the company and their clients using After Effects
  ‣ Assisted with Wordpress web design and development