Olly Nash

Work History

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  Senior / Lead 3D Generalist TD

  BlueBolt

  January 2020 - Present
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  Houdini FX artist / Lighting TD

  BlueBolt

  February 2019 - December 2024

  London, GB

  

  

• Ollimation

  January 2019 - February 2019

  London, United Kingdom
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  3d Generalist

  Coffee & TV

  December 2018 - January 2019

  Soho
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  Generalist TD

  BlueBolt

  September 2017 - November 2018

  London, United Kingdom

  Modelling, lighting & rendering with Maya and Arnold. Texturing with Mari. Pyro FX with Houdini16.5

  

  

  

  
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  generalist td

  BLOCKED

  January 2017 - November 2018

  London, United Kingdom

  Houdini Pyro - smoke trails and smoke bombs.
  Maya - lighting and rendering in Arnold.
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  Freelance Senior FX & Lighting TD

  Jellyfish Pictures

  October 2016 - September 2017

  Soho

  "The Last Jedi" - I created the jets of water leaking from Finn's medical suit, using nParticles-to-Mesh, Soup fluid shaper filter & a lot of tweaking! Also did lighting & rendering of environment and reflections for the glass windows of The First Order's ship.
  
  "Wolfblood Series 5" - Using nCloth, nParticles to create integration and character FX. Using nFluids to create smoke effects. Lighting and rendering with Arnold in Maya2016 Ext2

• Freelance Senior FX TD & Generalist

  StudioAKA

  August 2016 - October 2016

  Soho

  Using MASH motion dynamics network in Maya2016-Ext2 to create cubism effect on beautifully designed characters.
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  Freelance Senior FX & Lighting TD

  Jellyfish Pictures

  July 2016 - August 2016

  Soho

  Camera and animation layout. Flocking simulations. Lighting & Rendering in Arnold for BlackMirror Series 4
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  Freelance Senior CGI Generalist

  Sky

  June 2016 - July 2016

  Brentford

  SSF Title Sequence: Animating background footballers. TickerTape Simulations. Lighting & Rendering in Arnold
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  Freelance FX, Lighting & Rendering artist

  Sky

  August 2015 - June 2016

  Isleworth

  Creating "slow mo" particle effects for a Sky TV promo. Lighting & Rendering in Softimage using Arnold.
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  Freelance Senior CGI Generalist

  Coffee & TV

  May 2016 - May 2016

  Soho

  Camera tracking in PFTrack. Modelling and layout in Maya2016
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  Freelance Senior FX & Lighting TD

  Fluid Pictures

  April 2016 - May 2016

  Fitzrovia

  particles, lighting & rendering of smoke effects and aircraft for documentary series. Mental Ray and Redshift.
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  Freelance Lighting TD

  Jellyfish Pictures

  August 2015 - August 2015

  Soho

  Lighting & Rendering of "Neal" sloth furry character for set of Sofaworks idents sponsoring the new series of Gogglebox. Rendered in Softimage using Arnold.
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  Previz Artist

  FIELDTRIP

  July 2015 - July 2015

  Soho

  Helped to Previz RedBull sponsored BMX stunts "Kaleidoscope".....to help figure out the measurements of the structures to be built and what lens to use & position of camera before building the set.
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  Freelance Softimage ICE TD

  Sky

  July 2015 - July 2015

  Isleworth

  Ford Super Sunday Football title sequence. Created football stadium crowd setup in opening and closing shot with ICE particles - 2d cards of crowd footage, offset and looped. Created ticker tape particles to float within stadium.
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  Freelance Softimage Generalist

  Lola Post Production

  January 2015 - July 2015

  Warren Street, London

  Used ICE to generate "blossoming" flowers prompted by Tubbies actions, plus other bits and bobs of FX - rainclouds, rainbows, bubbles. Airs Autumn 2015.
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  Freelance Softimage Generalist

  Jellyfish Pictures

  November 2014 - December 2014

  Fitzrovia

  Lighting & Rendering using Arnold - Sofaworks TV commercials
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  Freelance FX TD

  Sky

  November 2014 - November 2014

  Isleworth

  Creating falling snow for Sky Christmas ident, using Softimage ICE
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  Freelance Maya Generalist

  Electric Theatre Collective

  September 2014 - October 2014

  Fitzrovia

  PFTracking and adding nParticles snow to shots for Morissons Xmas commercial, rendered in Maya-2015. Airing on ITV Nov/Dec 2014.
  Retopologising & UVing scanned meshes using Maya 2015.
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  Freelance Softimage ICE artist

  Sky

  September 2014 - September 2014

  Isleworth

  Tweaks to existing ICE setup for Ryder Cup coverage titles.
  ICE Syflex cloth RnD for flags. Lighting & Rendering in Arnold
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  Crowd TD

  MPC

  March 2014 - September 2014

  Soho

  Using Softimage ICE tools for flocking spaceships in Guardians of the Galaxy.
  Using proprietary tools in Maya for biped crowds in The Book of Exodus. Both output via Maya.

  

  
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  Freelance FX TD

  Sky

  February 2014 - March 2014

  Isleworth

  Using ICE to create debris and smoke coming from a burst F1 tyre.
  ICE instances, ICE strands. Rendered in Arnold.
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  Freelance FX & Lighting TD

  FIELDTRIP

  January 2014 - February 2014

  Soho

  ICE strand simulations. Lighting and rendering in Mental Ray. Commercial for VisionExpress.
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  Softimage Generalist

  unit

  December 2013 - December 2013

  Soho

  Modelling, Animating, Texturing, Lighting & Rendering for a January sales advert for a popular home shopping website.
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  Freelance FX TD

  Glassworks

  October 2013 - November 2013

  Soho

  I've got my head in the clouds, literally, with this job! Using Ozone6 atmosphere plugin for Softimage.
  Plus assisting with lighting a futuristic structure, using Arnold.

• Freelance ICE fx animator

  StudioAKA

  August 2013 - October 2013

  Soho, London

  Working on fx for Christmas jewellery commercials
  Created flow of autumnal leaves to be displayed on LED screens at top of Target HQ building in Minneapolis.
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  Freelance FX & Lighting TD

  Not To Scale

  April 2013 - August 2013

  Soho

  Wizards-v-Aliens series 2. CBBC did the right thing and commissioned another series of my dream job : )
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  Freelance Softimage Generalist

  Fluid Pictures

  February 2013 - March 2013

  Fitzrovia

  creating the effect of 'Tweets' flying out of mobile phones over various shots of people walking along. Culminating in ICE vortex of tweets, zooming into space! Rendered using Arnold.
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  Freelance Softimage Generalist

  Fluid Pictures

  January 2013 - February 2013

  Fitrovia

  Lighting & Rendering a cuddly furry teddy bear for washing detergent commercial.
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  Freelance Softimage Animator

  Unit Media

  January 2013 - January 2013

  Tracking cgi objects onto green screen backplate
  Generated "paper rip" effect using ICE Syflex
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  Freelance Softimage Generalist

  Fluid Pictures

  December 2012 - December 2012

  Soho

  modelling, rigging, texturing for "Shocking Sharks" documentary.
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  Freelancer Softimage Generalist

  Fluid Pictures

  November 2012 - November 2012

  Soho

  creating graphics for a documentary about Hurricane Sandy
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  Freelance Character animator

  Smoke & Mirrors

  October 2012 - November 2012

  Soho

  doing a bit of character animation on a tv advert for a pharmaceutical product.
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  Freelance Softimage Generalist

  Ubik Studios, Not To Scale

  April 2012 - October 2012

  Soho

  lighting space ships and using ICE for magic fx on Childrens BBC drama: Wizards-v-Aliens. Animators dream job! : )
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  Softimage Freelancer

  Fluid Pictures

  April 2012 - April 2012

  Fitzrovia

  creating map graphics for a documentary series
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  Commercials Shoot TD

  Ubik Studios, Not To Scale

  March 2012 - April 2012

  Black Island Studios, Acton

  for the next 4 days I'm all about tracking markers, smooth green screen, matt white and chrome shiny balls. Oh and camera/lens info!
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  Freelance Softimage ICE TD

  Ubik Studios, Not To Scale

  March 2012 - March 2012

  Soho

  R N D special effects for BBC childrens drama
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  Freelance Softimage ICE TD

  Studio AKA

  January 2012 - March 2012

  Soho

  ICE particle effects for BBC Olympic Torch Relay titles.
  I used combination of EmFluid and ICE particles for opening shot ignition and 2 relay hand over shots. Big up to the director Kristian Andrews and the fab team at StudioAKA for the fabulous work.
  https://vimeo.com/41491466
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  Softimage Freelancer

  Smoke & Mirrors

  November 2011 - January 2012

  Soho

  Texturing, lighting and Mental Ray rendering of an industrial warehouse for a soon to be aired project.
  
  Texturing, lighting and Mental Ray rendering of various laptop models
  
  ICE Particle Simulation to create smoke streams for demonstrating the aerodynamics of a car.
  
  ICE particle & Rigid Body simulation to represent dust being sucked through a Philips vacuum cleaner for web-based marketing. Displacement map for the carpet.
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  Softimage Freelance

  Prime Focus World

  November 2011 - November 2011

  London, United Kingdom

  Animation, lighting and rendering for tv channel idents
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  Softimage Freelance

  Smoke & Mirrors

  October 2011 - November 2011

  Beak Street, Soho

  Used mbFeatherTools ICE plugin to create a frankenstein turkey/duck/hen bird for PeptoBismal tv ad. Rendering in Mental Ray. Good, challenging work to get my head round! Aired in USA over xmas.
  
  Camera Tracking with PFMatchit for ceiling replacement in Vitra Bathrooms tv ad. Texturing, Lighting, Rendering with Mental Ray.
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  Softimage Freelancer

  Prime Focus World

  September 2011 - October 2011

  Soho

  Camera Tracking with PFTrack
  Texturing, Lighting and Rendering with Mental Ray
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  Arnold Lighting and Rendering Freelancer

  Jellyfish Pictures

  August 2011 - September 2011

  Noho

  Arnold Lighting and rendering for all 7 wide shots of "Peckish" advert containing full CG birds. Looks gorgeous. Aired in October.

  

• Freelance Softimage Animator

  Freelance CGI Artist

  August 2011 - August 2011

  London, United Kingdom
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  Senior XSI Animator

  Prime Focus World

  August 2007 - August 2011

  various generalist roles over the years!!
  completed VirginMedia commercial with a CG house.

• Senior Animator

  Clear Post

  January 2007 - August 2007

  lead animator on "28 Weeks Later"

  

• Senior Animator

  OasisTv

  October 2005 - December 2006

  3d animator for title sequences, logo stings & vfx
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  Freelance Animator

  Self Employed

  January 2004 - October 2005

  Soho

  Freelanced at Clear Post, then OasisTV following a 10 month round the world trip, to take in magical new horizons other than the one above my workstation monitor!

• XSI Animator

  Clear Post Production

  September 2001 - February 2004

  3d animator for tv commercials & film. Worked on "28 Days Later" & "Millions" (directed by Danny Boyle) and "Wasp" (directed by Andrea Arnold, 2005 short film Oscar winner)

  

• Character Animator

  Skaramoosh Ltd

  February 2001 - July 2001

  animated lots of woolly mammoths, always ending in death scenes. poor things!

• 3d animator

  Xspression

  January 2000 - January 2001

  inhouse 3d animator for tv adverts

• Softimage 3D demo artist

  Tyrell Corporation

  1997 - 1999

  Softimage|3d and Softimage|Toonz product demonstrator, technical support and Softimage Approved trainer

• 3d animator

  Vector TV

  November 1995 - November 1996

  The old days of using Softimage v3.6 and an Abekas A60 disk to layoff onto betaSP!