Olly Nash

Olly Nash

CG Generalist, FX TD, Lighting & Rendering TD

Senior FX Artist / Senior Generalist

London, United Kingdom

Senior FX TD

Napoleon (2023)

Senior FX TD

Fast X (2023)

CG Artist

The Northman (2022)

3D Artist

Captive State (2019)

Senior Visual Effects Artist

Johnny English Strikes Again (2018)

Senior Generalist TD

Johnny English Strikes Again (2018)

Senior Generalist TD

Robin Hood (2018)

Senior FX & Lighitng TD

Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi (2017)

Crowd Technical Director

Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014)

Crowd TD

Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)

Senior Effects Technical Director

Nine Miles Down (2012)

Senior FX TD

Black Mirror (2011)

Senior Effects Technical Director

The Tournament (2010)

Senior Animator

28 Weeks Later (2007)

3D Lead Animator

Millions (2005)

XSI Animator

Wasp (2004)

3D Animator

28 Days Later... (2003)

I'm a 3d vfx artist. I have over 25 years of experience and have created cgi for tv, film and websites. I've been using Houdini professionally for over 6 years on various shows requiring rigid bodies, pyro, particles, fluid and ocean tools. I use Maya for 3d Generalist tasks, such as modelling, shaders, lighting & rendering.
Work History

  • Senior / Lead 3D Generalist TD

    BlueBolt

    January 2020 - Present

  • Houdini FX artist / Lighting TD

    BlueBolt

    February 2019 - December 2024
    London, GB

  • Ollimation

    January 2019 - February 2019
    London, United Kingdom

  • 3d Generalist

    Coffee & TV

    December 2018 - January 2019
    Soho

  • 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

  • generalist td

    BLOCKED

    January 2017 - November 2018
    London, United Kingdom

    Houdini Pyro - smoke trails and smoke bombs.
    Maya - lighting and rendering in Arnold.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • Freelance Senior CGI Generalist

    Sky

    June 2016 - July 2016
    Brentford

    SSF Title Sequence: Animating background footballers. TickerTape Simulations. Lighting & Rendering in Arnold

  • 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.

  • Freelance Senior CGI Generalist

    Coffee & TV

    May 2016 - May 2016
    Soho

    Camera tracking in PFTrack. Modelling and layout in Maya2016

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Freelance Softimage Generalist

    Jellyfish Pictures

    November 2014 - December 2014
    Fitzrovia

    Lighting & Rendering using Arnold - Sofaworks TV commercials

  • Freelance FX TD

    Sky

    November 2014 - November 2014
    Isleworth

    Creating falling snow for Sky Christmas ident, using Softimage ICE

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Freelance FX & Lighting TD

    FIELDTRIP

    January 2014 - February 2014
    Soho

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

  • Softimage Generalist

    unit

    December 2013 - December 2013
    Soho

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

  • 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.

  • 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 : )

  • 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.

  • Freelance Softimage Generalist

    Fluid Pictures

    January 2013 - February 2013
    Fitrovia

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

  • Freelance Softimage Animator

    Unit Media

    January 2013 - January 2013

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

  • Freelance Softimage Generalist

    Fluid Pictures

    December 2012 - December 2012
    Soho

    modelling, rigging, texturing for "Shocking Sharks" documentary.

  • Freelancer Softimage Generalist

    Fluid Pictures

    November 2012 - November 2012
    Soho

    creating graphics for a documentary about Hurricane Sandy

  • Freelance Character animator

    Smoke & Mirrors

    October 2012 - November 2012
    Soho

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

  • 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! : )

  • Softimage Freelancer

    Fluid Pictures

    April 2012 - April 2012
    Fitzrovia

    creating map graphics for a documentary series

  • 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!

  • Freelance Softimage ICE TD

    Ubik Studios, Not To Scale

    March 2012 - March 2012
    Soho

    R N D special effects for BBC childrens drama

  • 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

  • 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.

  • Softimage Freelance

    Prime Focus World

    November 2011 - November 2011
    London, United Kingdom

    Animation, lighting and rendering for tv channel idents

  • 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.

  • Softimage Freelancer

    Prime Focus World

    September 2011 - October 2011
    Soho

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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!

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Education

  • University of Bradford

    1991 - 1995