Sam Swift-Glasman

Sam Swift-Glasman

Fx Lead on Paramount's Sherlock Gnomes

Lead FX Lead / 18 yrs

London, United Kingdom

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Work History
  • FiveAI

    April 2018 - Present
    London, United Kingdom
  • Double Negative

    February 2018 - April 2018
    London, United Kingdom
  • FX Lead

    Mikros Image

    November 2016 - November 2017
  • Head of 3D

    Realise Studio

    October 2015 - October 2016
  • VFX TD

    Realise Studio

    July 2014 - October 2015
    London, United Kingdom
  • Freelance VFX TD / RND

    Passion Pictures

    October 2013 - July 2014
    London

    Setting up Fur, Cloth and Fluid Setups for high profile commercials as well as building pipeline tools.

  • Freelance Developer / Facilitator

    Homeroom uk

    March 2013 - March 2014
    London

    Developing educational games and activities for computational workshops

  • Freelance Houdini TD

    Realise Studio

    January 2013 - September 2013
    London, United Kingdom


    Worked on effects for several commercials, creating Fluid FX, cloth FX as well as Lighting my work. Also helped develop instancing and fluid pipelines.

  • Generalist TD, FX TD

    One Of Us

    April 2010 - January 2013
    London


    i have worked as a 3D generalist and effects TD on several feature films, commercials and art installations. I have also developed the rendering and animation pipelines, writing tools for Maya, Houdini and Nuke and Qube. I have spent time on set developing previs and assisting the VFX supervisor on a feature film.

  • Junior 3D Generalist / Junior Engineer

    Smoke & Mirrors

    May 2008 - April 2010


    During my time at Smoke & Mirrors I worked on several Adverts and Idents for clients such as Panasonic, Coca Cola and Big Brother. I also scanned and remeshed 3D models for the V&A in an EU project and helped develop the Nuke versioning pipeline.

Education
  • BA (Honours) in Computing & IT / Mathematics

    The Open University

    2010 - ?
  • Ba (Hons) in Commercial Music

    University of Westminster

    2002 - 2005