Ray Tjernstrom

Work History

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  Senior FX Artist

  Ingenuity Studios

  January 2025 - September 2025
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  FX TD

  beloFX

  August 2024 - December 2024
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  Supervisor/Lead FX TD

  ReDefine

  August 2019 - June 2024

  Montréal, Canada
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  Senior FX Artist

  Pixomondo

  August 2018 - August 2019

  Vancouver, Canada
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  Sr FX TD

  Method Studios

  April 2017 - July 2018

  Vancouver, Canada

  

  

  

  
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  Lead FX TD

  Atmosphere Visual Effects

  April 2016 - April 2017

  Vancouver, Canada

  Develop and maintain FX tools and elements for various live action television series. Elements include, smoke, fire, explosions, grass, dust, energy and other various sci-fi elements.
  
  FX elements were designed, build, rendered and comped through Houdini.
  
  Additional tasks included FX pipeline maintenance including, submission tools, Maya and Houdini asset management, and render farm debugging and troubleshooting for Houdini.
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  Senior FX TD

  Cinesite

  April 2015 - March 2016

  

  
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  FX Artist

  Mr. X

  January 2012 - March 2015

  

  

  

  

  

  
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  Effects Technical Director

  Cinesite

  May 2011 - December 2011

  Visual Effects Technical Director for the following productions:
  John Carter of Mars

  

  

  
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  FX Technical Director

  MPC

  September 2009 - April 2011

  Visual Effects Technical Director for the following productions:
  Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
  Unknown (2011)
  Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader
  Clash of the Titans (2010)

  

• Compositor

  Cuppa Coffee

  July 2009 - September 2009

  Compositor for Project: Glenn Martin DDS (Season 1)
  Tasks included:
  CG Lip animation colour correction and integration.
  Green screen keying and footage colour correction of stop motion video footage.
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  Visual Effects Artist / Compositor

  Elliott Animation

  June 2008 - April 2009

  •Building of visual effects assets for animated television programs, such as lightning, fire, smoke, energy, lightning and lasers.
  •Working extensively with dynamic particle systems, fluid, paint effects, hair, cloth and animated texture maps to create the desired effects.
  •Compositing and 2D effects with Shake and Particle Illusion
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  Visual Effects Artist / Compositor

  C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures

  January 2008 - June 2008

  •Building of visual effects assets for animated television programs, such as lightning, fire smoke, slime, hair and lasers.
  •Working extensively with dynamic particle systems, fluid, paint effects, hair, cloth and animated texture maps to create the desired effects.
  •Compositing and 2D effects with Shake and Combustion

• Maya Modeller

  Crystal Sensations

  July 2007 - January 2008

  3D modeller with Autodesk Maya for 3D crystal engraving.
  Photo retouching with photoshop.