Ken Shimizu

Ken Shimizu

Senior CFX TD / 17 yrs

Vancouver

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Lead Technical Animator

Deadpool 2 (2018)

Lead Technical Animator

Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)

Creature FX TD

Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)

Creature FX TD

Smurfs: The Lost Village (2017)

Creature FX TD

Storks (2016)

CFX TD

Gravity (2016)

CFX TD

Paddington (2015)

cfx td

Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015)

FX

Jupiter Ascending (2015)

FX TD

Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

CFX TD

Winter's Tale (2014)

CFX TD

RoboCop (2014)

CFX TD

47 Ronin (2013)

Visual Effects

Day of the Falcon (2013)

Visual Effects

The Prodigies (2012)

CFX TD

Black Gold (2012)

CFX TD

Despicable Me (2010)

Rigging TD

Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (2009)

Visual Effects

Ali Baba et les 40 voleurs (2007)

Rigging Set-Up & Skinning Sr Artists

Azur & Asmar: The Princes' Quest (2006)

Canadian and French citizen
Prefer to stay in Vancouver, BC.
Work History

  • Senior cloth and hair TD

    Wētā FX

    June 2023 - Present
    Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

  • senior cfx

    Digital Domain

    October 2019 - June 2023
    Vancouver, Canada Area

    Morbius
    Ghost of Tsushima
    Free Guy
    Carnival Row
    SheHulk
    Extraction 2

  • Senior cfx

    Framestore

    January 2019 - October 2019
    Montreal, Canada Area

  • Lead Technical Animator

    Method Studios

    November 2017 - November 2018

  • Creature FX TD

    Sony Pictures Imageworks

    November 2014 - November 2017
    Vancouver

  • Creature FX TD

    Prodigious Film (Groupe Publicis)

    October 2014 - October 2014

  • Creature FX TD / FX TD

    Framestore

    June 2013 - June 2014
    Montreal, Canada Area

  • Creature FX TD

    Framestore

    February 2012 - March 2013
    London, United Kingdom

  • Creature FX TD

    Illumination Mac Guff

    December 2011 - February 2012

  • Duboi

    August 2011 - December 2011

  • CFX TD

    Duboi

    November 2011 - December 2011

  • CFX TD

    Duboi

    August 2011 - August 2011

  • Maya Generalist

    Studio 73

    June 2011 - August 2011

    worked on a animated logo

  • FX TD - COMP

    One More Production

    June 2011 - June 2011

  • CFX TD

    Duboi

    March 2011 - May 2011

  • CFX TD

    Duboi

    March 2010 - May 2011

    Mecanique du Coeur

  • CFX TD

    SUPAMONKS Studio

    April 2011 - April 2011

    Ob Commercial

  • CFX TD

    Mac Guff

    November 2014 - March 2010

  • CFX TD

    Mac Guff

    November 2009 - March 2010

    Mac donalds commercials
    Despicable Me

  • CFX TD

    Attitude Studio

    December 2008 - October 2009

  • Rigging TD/ CFX TD

    Duboi

    June 2008 - August 2008

    Underworld 3

  • Rigging TD

    TeamTO

    May 2008 - May 2008

  • Rigging TD/ CFX TD

    Duboi

    February 2008 - April 2008

  • Rigging TD / CFX TD

    Mikros Image

    December 2007 - January 2008

  • Rigging TD/CFX TD

    Duboi

    May 2007 - October 2007

  • Rigging TD / CFX TD / Modeling TD

    Mikros Image

    January 2007 - May 2007

  • Rigging TD

    Mikros Image

    November 2006 - November 2006

  • Rigging TD

    Mikros Image

    July 2006 - August 2006

  • Rigging TD

    TeamTO

    March 2006 - June 2006

  • Rigging TD

    Mac Guff

    December 2004 - February 2006
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Education

  • ESRA

    2001 - 2003