Ryan Ruiz

Ryan Ruiz

Senior Character Effects Artist at DreamWorks Animation

Senior character effects artist / 9 yrs

Los Angeles, California

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Cfx Lead

How to Train Your Dragon (2025)

Senior Creature FX Td

The Gorge (2025)

Senior Creature FX Td

Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)

Character Effects Artist

Trolls Band Together (2023)

Character Effects Artist

Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken (2023)

Character Technical Director

Strange World (2022)

Creature TD

ABBA Voyage (2022)

Cfx / Groom

Halo (2022)

Creature Technical Director

Eternals (2021)

Creature Technical Director

Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021)

Creature Technical Director

Loki (2021)

Cfx Lead

WandaVision (2021)

Cfx Senior

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run (2021)

Cfx Senior

Raised by Wolves (2020)

Cfx Senior

Cursed (2020)

Creature FX Technical Director

Timmy Failure (2020)

Creature FX Technical Director

Lady and the Tramp (2019)

Technical Animator

X-MEN Dark Phoenix (2019)

Technical Animator

Godzilla: King of Monsters (2019)

Creature FX Technical Director

His Dark Materials (2019)

Technical Animator

The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (2018)

Technical Animator

A Wrinkle in Time (2018)

Cfx Senior

The Alienist: Angel of Darkness (2018)

Cfx Senior

The Alienist (2018)

Technical Animator

The Greatest Showman (2017)

Technical Animator

Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017)

Technical Animator

Justice League (2017)

Technical Animator

War For The Planet Of The Apes (2017)

Technical Animator

The Mummy (2017)

Technical Animator

Wonder Woman (2017)

Cfx Senior

American Gods (2017)

tech anim artist

Ghost in the Shell (2017)

Character Simulation TD Intern

Ferdinand (2017)

Senior Character Effects Artist

The Voice (2011)
Ryan Ruiz - CFX Technical Director - Reel
Ryan Ruiz - Ghost In The Shell - Tech Anim Reel
CFX TD/Technical Animator: Specialized in Cloth/Fur/Hair Simulations, Corrective Sculpting, and Character Finishing Tasks Software: nCloth | Houdini | Maya | Marvelous Designer | Nuke | Katana | Qualoth
Work History

  • Senior Character Effects Artist

    DreamWorks Animation

    October 2022 - September 2023

  • Character Technical Director

    Walt Disney Animation Studios

    April 2022 - October 2022

  • creature fx td

    Industrial Light & Magic

    October 2020 - April 2022
    Vancouver, Canada

  • CFX Lead/Senior

    Mr. X

    November 2019 - October 2020
    Montréal, Canada

    Development and creation of Houdini CFX Setups on hero shots and sequences

  • Creature FX TD

    Framestore

    April 2019 - November 2019
    Montréal, Canada

    Cloth/Fur/Muscle/Fat/Skin Simulations – Anatomy Sculpting

  • CFX Senior/Key Artist

    MPC

    December 2018 - April 2019
    Montréal, Canada

    Dark Phoenix | The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
    - Develop Hero Fur and Cloth Sim Setups to use across multiple sequences

  • CFX Artist

    MPC

    November 2016 - January 2019

    Justice League | Wonder Woman | War for the Planet of the Apes | Ghost in the Shell | Jumanji
    - Run Dynamic cloth/hair/skin simulations, corrective sculpting, and character finishing tasks

  • Char Sim / Crowds TD Intern

    Blue Sky Studios

    June 2016 - August 2016
    Greenwich, CT

    Ferdinand
    - Simulate cloth setups for multiple crowd agents and pose crowd agent simulations

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Education

  • BA in Animation

    DePaul University

    February 2010 - January 2013

  • Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Visual EffectsMaster of Fine Arts (MFA),

    Savannah College of Art and Design

    2014 - 2016