Ron Schab

Ron Schab

multiversed highlevel CG artist

Senior FX Artist / Senior Clown / 19 yrs

New Zealand

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FX Td

The Flash (2023)

Effects Technical Director

Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)

Visual Effects Technical Director

Black Adam (2022)

FX Td

Moon Knight (2022)

Senior FX Td

Skyfire (2021)

Houdini FX TD

League of Gods (2016)

FX TD

Happy Feet Two (2011)

Houdini FX TD

Thor (2011)

Houdini FX TD

Green Lantern (2011)

Character FX Artist

Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010)

Houdini FX Artist

Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards

Render Wrangler

Knowing (2009)

Render Wrangler

Australia (2009)

Render Wrangler

300 (2007)

Render Wrangler

28 Weeks Later (2007)

Render Wrangler

World Trade Center (2006)

Render Wrangler

Happy Feet (2006)

I have been working on a multitude of higlevel CG productions such as:

BlackAdam
TheFlash
Moon Knight
League of Gods
Happy Feet 2
THOR
Green Lantern
Legends of the Guardians
The Knowing
Australia
World Trade Centre
28 Weeks Later
300
Happy Feet

for more info please go to www.ronthedon.com
Work History

  • Houdini FX TD

    Wētā FX

    March 2022 - Present

    Moon Knight 2022
    TheFlash 2023

  • CEO / VFX Freelancer (Houdini)

    Sunshine-Consulting

    March 2005 - Present

  • Houdini FX TD

    Wētā FX

    September 2021 - March 2022
    Remote

    Moon Knight 2022

  • Senior Technical Artist Houdini & Unreal Engine (remote)

    Vantari VR

    July 2020 - August 2021

    - setting up Houdini-Unreal Pipeline
    - modelling game ready procedural assets for the medical world in Houdini
    - shading in Unreal
    - modelling realistic Humans in CharacterCreator and animating them in iClone

  • FX TD

    Bacon Productions

    March 2018 - March 2018
    Remote

  • FXTD

    Attraktion! GmbH

    April 2016 - March 2018
    Darmstadt, Germany

  • FX TD

    Dr D

    March 2011 - December 2011
    Sydney

    On Happy Feet 2 I was part of the volumetrics team as a Houdini FX TD and responsible for creating:
    - a snow wisp library for further use by other artists
    - a ground mist fog atmosphere in a crowd of around 24.000 elephant seals
    - hero snow flakes
    - a snow blizzard with terrain and furred character interaction

    great fun, now looking forward to the WARM Australian summer ;)

  • Houdini FX artist

    Dr. D Studios

    April 2011 - November 2011
    Sydney Australia

    Houdini FX Artist doing volumetrics and particles (clouds, groundfog, snow whisps, snow flakes, snowstorm)

  • Houdini FX Artist

    Digital Domain

    December 2010 - March 2011
    Vancouver, Canada

    Houdini FX Artist doing ice shard (which set-up then was also used by other artists), BiFrost, volumetrics

  • Houdini FX TD

    Cutting Edge

    October 2010 - December 2010
    Sydney Australia

    Houdini FX TD on several commercials and TV shows

  • Houdini FX artist

    Rising Sun Pictures

    September 2010 - October 2010
    Adelaide, Australia

    heat waves, contrails, turbine jet exhaust

  • character fx artist

    Animal Logic

    November 2009 - September 2010
    Sydney Australia

    Character FX (feathers), Character Animation (finalling)

  • Houdini FX TD

    Rising Sun Pictures

    August 2010 - September 2010

    For the Green Lantern Trailer I was responsible to create a variety of Houdini fx tools as well as looking into possibly viable solutions for 3D terrain creation. Fx tools completed include jet after burners & heat hazes. Additionally I was asked to do initial look dev creating volumetric cloud tools in Houdini and rebuild an accurate (down to 3m^2) representation of the Death Valley in California using TG2.

  • Houdini FX Artist

    Fluid Post

    September 2009 - November 2009
    Sydney Australia

    all the slime fluids (anim, sim, lighting, rendering)

  • Photographer

    Sunshine-Consulting

    January 2008 - September 2009

    During this time I have been lucky enough to have been booked as photographer for diverse projects in places like Australia, New Zealand, Samoa, Vanuatu, Hawaii, ...

    A welcome and exciting challenge away from computer screens.

  • Houdini FX TD

    Wild World Productions

    March 2009 - May 2009

    Needing to create an Intro LogoAnimation for FairFax WebTV show called TopLineLiving we utilized Houdini's Particle effects to create trail effects.

  • Sculptor on Better Homes and Garden

    Channel7 Communicaitons Pvt. Ltd

    October 2008 - October 2008

    Just a quick freelance job as a sculptor for the TV show Better Homes and Garden
    to build an "Indiana Jones" themed temple/playground in a large facility in CurlCurl that has been an oasis for socially challenged kids in Australia for decades.

    A welcome change to the fluid sculpting I was doing in front of a computer screen otherwise all day.

  • Art Director & 2D/3D Artist

    Spyglass

    July 2007 - December 2007

    During the time at Spyglass my responsibilities ranged from early concept art over client interaction, project planning and management, 2D&3D TD & artist work, show programming (using FLASH and WATCHOUT), running award shows all the way to leading a small team on an overseas project in Kuala Lumpur.

    The projects accomplished included clients like ADIDAS, The ALL BLACKS, the American Chamber of Commerce, Porsche GT3 Racing, Nokia, Westpac, Thrive, Toyota, New Zeland Music awards, ...
    On a couple occasions people like Helen Clark (then Prime Minister of New Zealand) were holding public speeches accompanied by my work.

  • Render Wrangler

    Animal Logic

    2006 - 2007

  • Multimedia Lecturer

    SAE

    2006 - 2006
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Education

  • Middlesex University

    2004 - 2006

  • Diploma in Producer

    SAE Institute

    2003 - 2004