Sunny Teich

Sunny Teich

Senior Houdini Effects and Look Development Artist

Lead Senior Effects Artist / Lecturer in Design / 18 yrs

USA

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Lead Effects Artist

The Gorge (2025)

Lead Effects Artist

Lockwood & Co. (2023)

Lead FX Artist

The Wheel of Time (2021)

Lead Effects Technical Director

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)

Effects Technical Director

Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

Lead Effects TD

Thor: Ragnarok (2017)

Effects Technical Director

Geostorm (2017)

Lead Effects TD

Beauty and the Beast (2017)

Effects Technical Director

Pan (2015)

Effects Technical Director

Everest (2015)

Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)

Man of Steel (2013)

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)

Effects Technical Director

The Avengers (2012)

Senior Creature Technical Director

The Adventures of Tintin (2011)

Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)

Avatar (2009)

Assistant Technical Director

Bolt (2008)

Hair Technical Director

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008)

Assistant Technical Director

Meet the Robinsons (2007)

Beowulf (2007)
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A lecturer and senior visual effects artist, with 12 years of big-budget feature experience at world-renowned studios, including Framestore London, Weta Digital and Walt Disney Animation Studios.
Work History

  • Lecturer in Design

    Victoria University of Wellington

    September 2018 - December 2020

  • Lead FX TD

    Framestore

    January 2014 - August 2018
    London, United Kingdom

  • FX TD

    Wētā FX

    January 2012 - January 2013

  • Senior Creature TD

    Wētā FX

    October 2010 - December 2011
    Wellington, New Zealand

    Facial Simulation

  • Creature TD

    Wētā FX

    January 2008 - March 2010

    "Avatar"
    "TinTin"
    "Prince Caspian"

  • Cloth/Hair TD

    Sony Pictures Imageworks

    May 2007 - October 2007

    "Beowulf"

  • Assistant TD- Look Development

    Walt Disney Animation Studios

    October 2005 - May 2007

    "American Dog"
    "Meet the Robinsons"

  • VFX Artist

    Higher Media Productions

    June 2005 - September 2005
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Education

  • University of Pennsylvania

    2001 - 2005