Sean Rowe

Sean Rowe

Lead effects technical director / 16 yrs

Vancouver, Canada

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Effects Lead

Lift (2024)

Effects Technical Director

Shazam! Fury of the Gods (2023)

Effects Technical Director

Bullet Train (2022)

Digital Artist

BIOS (2021)

Effects Technical Director

Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021)

Effects Technical Director

News of the World (2020)

Effects Technical Director

Togo (2019)

Effects Technical Director

Men in Black: International (2019)

Effects Technical Director

The Lego Movie Sequel (2019)

Effects Technical Director

Hotel Transylvania 3 (2018)

Effects Technical Director

Geostorm (2017)

Effects Technical Director

Only the Brave (2017)

Effects Artist

Allegiant (2016)

Effects Technical Director

Ant-Man (2015)

Matchmove Artist

Ex Machina (2015)

Matchmove Artist

Interstellar (2014)

Matchmove Supervisor

The Hogwarts Express (2014)

Matchmove Supervisor

Transcendence (2014)

Matchmove Artist

Rush (2013)

Matchmove Artist

Skyfall (2012)

Work History
  • FX Lead TD

    Double Negative

    December 2022 - Present
  • FX TD

    Double Negative

    April 2021 - December 2022
  • FX TD

    Wētā FX

    September 2020 - March 2021
  • Senior FX TD

    Axis Animation

    July 2020 - August 2020
    Bristol, England, United Kingdom
  • Senior FX TD

    Outpost VFX

    May 2020 - June 2020
    London, England, United Kingdom
  • CG Generalist

    Lola Post Production

    April 2020 - May 2020
    London, England, United Kingdom
  • Key FX TD

    Mill Film

    September 2019 - March 2020
    Adelaide, Australia
  • FX TD

    Double Negative

    February 2019 - August 2019
    Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    Men In Black: International
    Togo

  • FX Artist

    Animal Logic

    April 2018 - December 2018
    Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    The Lego Movie 2

  • FX TD

    Sony Pictures Imageworks

    October 2017 - April 2018
    Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    Hotel Transylvania 3

  • FX Artist

    MPC

    July 2017 - August 2017
    London, United Kingdom
  • FX TD

    Industrial Light & Magic

    April 2017 - July 2017
    Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    Only The Brave
    Avengers: Infinity War

  • Houdini FX TD

    Method Studios

    November 2015 - April 2017
    Vancouver, Canada Area

    The Divergent Series: Allegiant
    Captain America - Civil War
    Power Rangers
    Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol 2

  • Houdini FX TD

    Double Negative

    February 2015 - November 2015
    London, United Kingdom

    Ant-Man
    Geostorm

  • Technical Director

    Double Negative

    September 2014 - November 2015

    Roles have included:

    LiDAR Processing
    HDRI Processing
    Layout TD

  • Matchmove Supervisor

    Double Negative

    October 2012 - September 2014
    London, United Kingdom

    Escape From Gringotts Ride - Wizarding World of Harry Potter Diagon Alley
    The Hogwarts Express - Wizarding World of Harry Potter
    Transcendence
    Exodus: Gods and Kings

  • Matchmove Artist

    Double Negative

    November 2011 - September 2014
    London, United Kingdom

    Total Recall
    The Bourne Legacy
    Skyfall
    Man of Steel
    Rush
    Interstellar
    Book of Exodus
    Ex Machina

  • Camera Runner

    Double Negative

    July 2011 - November 2011

    Organising kit
    Assigning kit to shows
    Trained in use of Spheron
    Assisted on Motion Capture sessions using a MVN suit.

  • Head Runner

    Double Negative

    October 2010 - July 2011

    Oversaw the Running team
    Assigned Runners shifts on a weekly Rota
    Administrative duties such as assisting Accounts, Head of Facilities, Production, PR etc

  • Runner

    Double Negative

    August 2010 - October 2010

    Kitchen Duties
    Post Duties
    Reception Duties
    Food Orders for late working staff
    General Running Duties

  • Runner

    ENVY Post Production

    May 2009 - August 2010

    General Kitchen Duties

    Library assistance - logging, moving and locating tapes
    Offline Machine Room - patching up decks, duplicating masters, creating compilations. Using Avid Media Composer to digitise footage, create Digicuts, playouts DVD's and exporting Quicktimes, EDL files and OMF files).

    VFX assistance/training - rotoscoping, match-moving, planar tracking, keying and general 3D duties such as modelling, lighting, dynamics etc.

  • Runner

    Passion Pictures

    March 2009 - May 2009

    - General Kitchen Duties
    - General Running Duties
    - Reception Cover

Education
  • 3D Modelling and Animation

    Bournemouth University

    2005 - 2007
  • Advanced Multimedia and Digital Animation

    South East Essex College

    2003 - 2005