Rob Au

Work History

• Freelance VFX Artist/Consultant

  2bitfx

  August 2006 - Present

  Independent VFX for small budget commercials, music videos, and films.
  
  "Together We Are" - Music Video, Arty, VFX
  "Now Is The Start" - Music Video, A Fine Frenzy, VFX
  "Retrain Your Brain" - Spec Ad Virgin Mobile, VFX
  "Pretty Darn Funny ep. Footloose Parody" - Web Series, Tinder Media, VFX
  "My Error" - Short Film, Lone Mountain Studios, VFX
  "Sorry" - Music Video, Moth and the Flame, VFX
  "Clones" - Commercial, Intermountain Health Care, VFX
  "Kong Kone" - Commercial, Macey's, VFX
  "Best Friends" - Commercial, Lagoon, VFX
  "The Book of Jer3miah" - VFX
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• Sr Fx Artist

  Invisible Objects

  December 2024 - January 2025
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  Sr FX Artist

  Nexodus

  September 2024 - September 2024
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  Houdini Generalist

  Method Studios

  July 2024 - August 2024
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  Sr FX Artist

  Method Studios

  April 2024 - June 2024
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  Senior Fx Artist

  Parliament

  March 2024 - April 2024
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  VFX supervisor

  LDS Church

  April 2020 - November 2023

  Salt Lake City, US

  https://vimeo.com/893431620
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  3D Generalist

  Method Studios

  March 2020 - April 2020
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  VFX Artist

  Method Studios

  November 2019 - February 2020

  Los Angeles

  Effects artist for dungeons and dragons game trailer.
  
  3D sequence lead for Amazon game trailer. Created 3-D photo real environments from game engine exports.
  
  Used Houdini to update game atlases to high resolution assets while procedurally rebuilding scenes and lookdev. Exported back to maya for rendering in vray.

• Department Head: FX, Lighting, Comp

  Deeproot Tech

  January 2019 - November 2019

  Sandy, UT

  In charge of technology development for effects lighting and compositing. Lighting supervisor on project. R&D specialist for incoming projects. Director of upcoming title.
  
  At Deeproot we created digital media from highly stylized to photo real for various projects including special venue, web series, and pinball.
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  FX dev (Remote)

  Pixomondo

  September 2018 - October 2018

  Vancouver (Remotely)

  Worked on goosebumps two and a dogs way home.
  
  Developed plasma and electrical lightning tools for goosebumps.
  
  Created snow interaction for a dogs way home
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  Sr Fx Artist

  Method Studios

  July 2018 - September 2018

  Los Angeles, CA

  Created photo real effects simulations for commercials.
  
  Also helped out on Maya VRay lighting shots.
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  Fx Dev

  Method Studios

  January 2018 - April 2018

  Created highly art directed water simulations for product commercials.

• VFX supervisor

  Omnispace Inc

  December 2017 - January 2018

  Let a team of young artist to create a centerpiece dome film experience for the NFL’s Super Bowl in 2018. The film was rendered in red shift at 4K to 6K. The film included crowd simulations destruction stylized characters photo real football players jets space and other effects The film included crowd simulations, destruction, stylized characters, photo real football players, jets, space, and other effects.
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  FX Supervisor

  Pixomondo

  August 2017 - October 2017

  We created mass amounts of water simulations for the series finale of fear The Walking Dead. I work was nominated for a VS award We created mass amounts of water simulations for the series finale of Fear the Walking Dead. Our work was nominated for a VES award

  
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  FX Artist

  Method Studios

  December 2016 - April 2017

  Santa Monica, CA

  Rigid body simulations. Procedural modeling and lookdev.

  
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  Senior FX Artist

  Pixomondo

  October 2016 - October 2016

  Los Angeles, California

  Missile trail systems. Generic destruction system. Dust, ground hard surface explosion. https://youtu.be/_87zvl0LcEg
  
  

• Visual Effects Supervisor

  LDS Motion Picture Studio

  April 2012 - July 2016

  Architecting and designing of large scale vfx pipeline and procedures. Simulation and fx template development. Compositing and CG work flow development and education. Team structure development and mentoring.
  
  On set supervision of effects shots as well as vfx team supervision.

• Producer and VFX Supervisor

  Eventide Creative LLC

  February 2012 - July 2016

  Developing feature films and other creative projects from concept through production and post-production.
  
  "Orc Wars"
  "Redcoat"
  "Eugenie"-short film
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  Senior FX Artist / CG Supervisor

  Pixomondo

  September 2015 - November 2015

  "Sleepy Hollow" - Senior FX Artist/CG Supervisor
  "The Fifth Wave" - Senior FX Artist
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  Lighting Supervisor

  Rhythm & Hues Studios

  April 2007 - February 2012

  "Everybody Loves Whales" (Released as "Big Miracle") - Lighting Supervisor
  "RIPD" - Lighting Supervisor
  "Hop" - Environment Lookdev Lead
  "A-Team" - Lighting TD
  "Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel" - Lighting Lead
  "Land of the Lost" - Environment Lead
  "The Mummy 3: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor" - Lighting TD
  "The Golden Compass" - Lighting TD
  "Night at the Museum" - Lighting TD
  

  

  

  

  

  

• Compositing TD

  LDS Motion Picture Studio

  October 2006 - February 2007

  Compositor
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  Lighting TD

  Rhythm & Hues Studios

  June 2006 - October 2006

  Night at the Museum

  

• Compositor

  LDS Motion Picture Studio

  June 2005 - April 2006

  Joseph: Prophet of the Restoration
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  Brigham Young University

  July 2005 - January 2006