Todd Dufour Visual Fx Reel 2013

Jan 26, 2015 • 2 likes

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Halo 3

I ran a team of three Fx Artist overseeing the development of all the Fx in this Award Winning Halo 3 teaser.

Tools: Houdini
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Green Lantern

Green Energy Fx Development

I was tasked with developing the look of the green energy fx on the characters. My system was used by about 20 junior and senior fx artist on about 300 shots. I create the look and the pipelined the implementation.

Tools: Houdini, Katana
0:18-0:26

2012

Senior Fx Artist

I was the volumetric pipeline lead on 2012. I was tasked with creating a system for rendering massive libraries of Digital Domains proprietary volumes "Storm". Not only did I develop and maintain the library system I also created and debugged the volumetric lighting system and tools. This include LOD optimizations.

Tools: Houdini, Storm
0:26-0:30

2012

Senior Fx Artist

Me and another senior fx artist were tasked with creating the road cracking systems. This was a tough task. One of the hardest in my career. We had to coordinate with 4 department and countless artist to make sure that the correct look dev was matched with the correct crumbling cliffs.

Tools: Houdini
0:30-0:36

Senior Fx Artist

I created all the smoke sims. Including the lighting.

Tools: Houdini
0:36-0:40

Senior Fx TD

I was one of two main developers for the Waterfall. I inspired the idea of using volumetric point cloud based sprites and libraries to flesh out the waterfalls in worlds end. There is a siggraph paper describing our techniques.

Tools: Houdini, Storm
0:40-0:45

Senior Fx Artist

I was the Fx Artist doing the destruction of the door, breaking glass, and sparks.

Tools: Houdini, Katana
0:45-0:50

Senior Fx Artist

Fx Artist
Volumetrics, and ice crystal growth along the tower.

Tools: Houdini, Katana, Maya Fluids
0:50-1:00

Senior Fx TD

Fx Lead: Battle Fx
I ran a team of about 20 artist and setup and supported all the volumetric Fx for the battle scenes in Mummy 3.

Tools: Houdini, Storm
1:10-1:15

Senior Fx TD

Fx Artist:
I ran most of the development for the confetti dynamics. The original development was done by Andre Paules, a good friend of mine. I picked up the confetti shots from Andrew and pushed them along to final.

Tools: Houdini and Renderman
1:15-1:25

Senior Fx TD

Fx Artist:
Street and car Fx
Breaking glass.

Tools: Houdini
1:25-1:30

Senior Fx TD

Fx Lead:
I was in charge of the spark setups and the Fx Pipeline for getting the cars from Animation to Fx.

Tools: Houdini, Storm
1:30-1:35

Fx Artist

Fx Artist
Shattering and falling glass.

Tools: Houdini
1:35-1:42

Fx Artist

I was on of many artist that helped Chris Yang get the viki hologram cube realized in iRobot.

Tools: Houdini
1:42-1:48

Senior Fx TD

Fx Artist:
Volumetric Lead
I developed all the Green Tornado shots.

Tools: Houdini, Storm
1:48-1:56

Senior Fx Artist

Fx Artist
Water interaction Fx

Tools: Houdini, Svea
1:56-2:06

Fx Artist:
Clouds
Cloud Development
Engine Fx
Wingtip Vorticles Development
Landing Gear Fx Development