Mark Fiammata

Work History

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  Senior FX Artist

  DreamWorks Animation

  October 2011 - October 2012

  Croods
  Simulation/lighting/compositing of fire, smoke, embers, dust, explosions, destruction, and debris, etc.
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  Head of Character FX

  DreamWorks Animation

  July 2009 - October 2011

  • Supervised a team of 35+ artists across the globe in Glendale and Redwood City, CA and Bangalore, India.
  • Worked with Visual FX Supervisor and Producers to achieve the desired artistic goals of the production while working within the budget of the film.
  • Developed new Houdini-based department workflows and systems for hair and feather grooming and dynamic systems.

  

  
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  Global FX Lead

  DreamWorks Animation

  October 2008 - July 2009

  • Drove DW Global FX toolset and education by working with Production and R&D.

  
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  FX Artist

  DreamWorks Animation

  October 2003 - October 2008

  Madagascar 2
  Seq Lead / Sr. FX Artist / Previz artist / Dev artist / Particle tools Representative:
  • Continued work with fluid simulation for fire and smoke.
  • Crowd dust look and system development.
  • Contributed to Python tools for unified tool integration.
  
  
  Shrek The Halls
  Sr. FX Artist / Particle tools Representative:
  • Continued work with fluid simulation for fire and smoke.
  • Create system for ambient environment snowfall and blizzard fx
  • Wrote/ported particle shaders as continued Particles Rep. work.
  
  
  Shrek the Third
  FX Artist / Particle tools
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  FX Aritst

  ESC Entertainment

  May 2002 - October 2003

  Matrix Revolutions
  • Developed hero character asset delivery and rendering pipeline.
  • Developed Perl and Mel tools for hero character asset delivery.
  
  
  Matrix Reloaded
  • Developed pipeline and tools to create dynamic soft body hair system for virtual humans.
  • Mental Ray look development and procedural shader development.
  • Rigid body, soft body, and particle simulations

  

  

  

• FX Artist

  LucasArts Entertainment

  May 2001 - May 2002

  • Production pipeline creation and development
  • Rendering pipeline development
  • Rigid body, soft body, and particle simulations
  • In-engine sprite and particle fx development

• Graphic Artist

  PCOM

  June 1996 - August 1996