Peter Bowmar

Work History

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  FX Technical Supervisor

  Double Negative

  April 2017 - Present

  Same job as before, adding in some more management and support duties as we formalize the department structure.
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  FX Supervisor

  Double Negative

  January 2016 - March 2017

  Vancouver, Canada Area

  I am the FX Supervisor for the Vancouver studio. I do tool development, capture tools and tech from shows for international use, training, recruitment, ensure cross-facility standards are known, documentation, technology research and development, liaise with the Global FX Supervisor and the FX team in the London head office and probably a lot more that I've forgotten at the moment. Mostly using Houdini.
  
  It's fun!
  
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  FX Lead

  Double Negative

  December 2014 - December 2015

  Vancouver, BC

  Houdini stuff on Alice 2
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  FX TD

  Double Negative

  November 2014 - December 2014

  London, United Kingdom

  Houdini stuff
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  FX Development Supervisor

  Rhythm & Hues Studios

  November 2012 - September 2014

  Vancouver, Canada Area

  Working mostly in Houdini, doing FX and Lighting development work for cool films.
  
  Took on FX Supervisor role for Vancouver FX component for Alien Attacks, last project at R+H Vancouver
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  Head of Technology

  Method Studios

  June 2012 - November 2012

  Vancouver, BC

  
  Managing Pipeline and Development group for Method Vancouver.
  
  Recruiting, pipeline planning and scheduling, some coding and other fun stuff.
  
  Still do some Houdini TD work too!
  
  Head of 3D role was split off (at my request) to Sean Lewkiw so that I could focus more on going deeper into the pipeline side of things.
  
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  Head of 3D & Technology

  Method Studios

  April 2008 - June 2012

  Vancouver, BC

  
  Managing pipeline/development team
  
  Pipeline and infrastructure upgrade and development planning and oversight.
  
  Recruiting and general development of the team.
  
  Lots of other stuff too!
  
  Still do some Houdini TD stuff occasionally.
  

  
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  Snr FX Technical Director

  Framestore

  November 2006 - March 2008

  
  Houdini FX - Golden Compass
  Houdini FX - Prince Caspian
  Software tools and pipeline programmer for Maya and Houdini
  Houdini pipeline setup - Wanted
  

• Student

  Bournemouth U

  September 2005 - September 2006

  
  Finished Master of Arts, By Project in Computer Animation.
  
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  Senior Technical Director

  Rhythm & Hues Studios

  April 2004 - September 2005

  
  Usual TD stuff, writing shaders, setting up Houdini digital assets, particles, dynamics etc. I was especially involved in developing a Houdini lighting pipeline to mirror the proprietary R+H lighting pipeline. This is now in use on Superman Returns.
  

• Support Lead, Senior Demo Artist

  Side Effects Software, Inc.

  September 1998 - April 2004

  
  -Support lead, oversaw support for California customers.
  -Senior Demo Artist, demos to any interested parties in California and the world.
  -Training lead, designed, developed and delivered advanced training in print, video and to classrooms.
  

• Houdini Pipeline Setup

  Monster By Mistake

  2003 - 2003

  
  Houdini Pipeline, mostly taking existing Irix based pipeline and porting it to Windows XP, with Cygwin base.
  

• Lecturer

  Ngee Ann Polytechnic

  December 1993 - June 1998

  
  -Created, developed and managed Film and Computer Animation components of new Film Sound and Video department
  -developed and taught Film, TV Studio, and Digital Effects courses
  -Project Coordinator for Silicon Studio style Digital Effects Studio ($3 million US budget)