Tamas Molnar

Work History

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  Senior FX Artist

  Important Looking Pirates

  August 2024 - June 2025
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  Senior FX TD

  Puppetworks Animation Studio

  October 2023 - April 2024

  Budapest

  USD workflow implementation for FX, solaris setups, explosion export setups for the team (Houdini to Maya), shot work
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  FX Artist

  Important Looking Pirates

  December 2022 - August 2023
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  Houdini instructor

  Mesharray Digital Media School

  January 2020 - February 2023

  Budapest, Hungary

  Official Houdini basic training for beginners, 10 part course covering basic modelling, animation, fx, , etc. scheduled each year
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  FX Artist

  ScanlineVFX

  October 2022 - December 2022

  München, Germany
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  FX Artist

  RISE | Visual Effects Studios

  January 2022 - October 2022

  Projects:
  -Ms Marvel;
  -Shazam 2 - Fury of the Gods

  

  
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  FX Artist

  Illumination Mac Guff

  November 2021 - December 2021
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  FX Project Supervisor

  Digic Pictures

  January 2021 - November 2021

  Budapest, Hungary

  Artistic and technical supervising of the effects team on particular projects, managing client and inhouse requirements, creation of general setups to be used across the project
  -Rainbow Six: Extraction trailer
  -Assassin's Creed Valhalla:Dawn of Ragnarök
  -Call of Duty: Vanguard (cutscenes)

  
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  FX Lead Artist

  Digic Pictures

  January 2020 - November 2021

  Budapest, Hungary

  FX lookdev, setup creation, artist managment, technical problem solving, coordination with leads from other departments over common issues, managing client requirements etc
  Projects:
  -Unknown 9 Teaser
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  FX Artist

  Digic Pictures

  October 2019 - January 2020

  Budapest

  Projects
  -Attraction 2
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  FX Artist

  Mr. X

  March 2019 - October 2019

  Toronto, Canada Area

  working on shots and RnD
  -Raised by Wolves
  -Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
  -Antlers
  -Spongebob
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  FX Artist

  Digic Pictures

  April 2017 - February 2019

  Budapest

  -The Secret War / Love, Death &Robots; (Netflix animation shorts)
  -Call of Duty WW II (cinematic &cutscenes;)
  -Call of Duty WW II :Zombies (cinematic &cutscenes;)
  -Call of Duty:Black Ops 4 (cutscenes)
  -Destiny 2 (cinematic&cutscenes;)
  -Destiny 2:Forsaken (cutscenes)
  -Lost Ark (cinematic trailer)
  -Warframe (cinematic)
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  Houdini FX Artist

  Puppetworks Animation Studio

  July 2015 - March 2017

  Budapest

  Particle, RBD, volume effects, procedural modelling, pipeline
  Projects:
  -Final Fantasy XV: Kingsglaive (feature)
  -Dawnbringer (game cinematic)
  -Blade Bound (game cinematic)
  -Guardian Kingdoms(game cinematic)
  -Lordsmobile (game cinematic)
  -Torchlight Mobile (game cinematic)
  -Cairo's tale (game cinematic)

• 3d Generalist

  Alphaville Virtual Studios

  July 2014 - June 2015

  Budapest

  Procedural modelling, shading, fluid effects, hair and fur setup, rendering in Arnold
  -The Snowqueen project (feature animation)

• Junior vfx artist

  Umbrella Collective /// umbrella.tv

  June 2014 - June 2014

  Budapest

  editing, lipsync, camera animation, tracking
  Projects:
  -The Carbonfools: Easter Song

• program manager

  Corvin Art School

  January 2014 - May 2014

  Budapest

  organizing and managing the school's courses, art lessons, kids' art camps, etc.