Rob Chapman

Work History

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  FX

  Goodbye Kansas

  February 2023 - June 2023

  WFH
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  VAD generalist

  ScanlineVFX

  July 2021 - August 2022

  London, United Kingdom
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  FX Digital Artist

  Narwhal Studios

  February 2021 - July 2021

  London remote
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  CFX / FX Lead

  Jellyfish Pictures

  October 2020 - January 2021

  WFH London
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  Fellowship

  Epic Games

  August 2020 - October 2020

  London, England Metropolitan Area
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  Crowd Sequence Lead

  Jellyfish Pictures

  August 2020 - August 2020

  London, England Metropolitan Area

• Available for Work

  FX & Crowd Technical Director

  April 2020 - August 2020

  London, England, United Kingdom
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  FX Artist

  Untold Studios

  February 2020 - March 2020

  London, England, United Kingdom

  booked here for a short stint helping to finish off some water FX on a commercial
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  Lead FX TD

  STUDIO AKA

  July 2019 - January 2020

  London, United Kingdom
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  Crowd sequence lead

  MPC

  December 2018 - August 2019

  London, United Kingdom
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  crowd technical director

  MPC

  September 2017 - July 2019

  London, United Kingdom

  back to MPC but with Houdini on top of Maya
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  Crowd Sequence lead

  MPC

  April 2018 - December 2018

  London, United Kingdom
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  vr developer

  Fluid Pictures

  July 2017 - August 2017

  shoreditch

  Unity VR developer for a quick interactive architectural experience for a TV pilot.. which won the contract!

• Digital 3D Artist

  Freelance Digital 3D Artist Self Employeed

  January 2017 - June 2017

  London

  VFX Professional, FX Technical Director, 3D Generalist & Digital Artist.
  Skills include All aspects of 3D Generalist roles from concept to delivery, Specialist in Particle simulation. Digital skills include Nuke / After Effects for motion graphics, titles and 3D compositing. Photogrammetry model creation, 360 live action Video Stitching for VR, Motion tracking and match moving. VR app and content creator using Unity and Unreal Engine. Render farm wrangling and project delivery management
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  Technical Artist

  Glassworks

  March 2017 - May 2017
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  head of 3D

  udox

  April 2015 - December 2016
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  HOD 3D, Animation & Motion Graphics

  udox

  March 2015 - December 2015

  Shoreditch, London

  kick-starting the 3D department into 2015 and beyond
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  Crowd TD

  MPC

  December 2014 - February 2015

  London, United Kingdom

  Worked in crowd team responsible for providing to the MPC pipeline:
  Thousands of Seagulls in many shots on Exodus:gods & Kings.
  Built from scratch on top of a custom in-house flocking system an entire Flying, Landing, Attacking Mowgli Bee behaviour simulator for the yet to be released Disneys Jungle Book

  

  
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  3D Artist

  Glassworks

  October 2014 - November 2014

  London

  Hair Stylist for a Christmas National Lottery commercial. Softimage ICE strands for construction of hair style & providing Redshift hair shading for Rendering
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  Crowd TD

  MPC

  October 2013 - September 2014

  London, United Kingdom

  
  Artistically driving a custom MPC flocking system providing swarms of Necrocraft and loose squadrons of Milano's for many shots of the spaceship battles in Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy
  
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  Senior FX artist

  Walking The Dog

  February 2013 - September 2013

  Brussels Area, Belgium

  Providing and leading on many fluid simulation spot effects including creeping fogs, poofs of magical smoke to dust and freezing rivers for the film 'The boy with the cuckoo clock heart'
  
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  Studio AKA

  December 2006 - February 2013

  Lead FX and Senior 3D Artist. Many, many commercials & various short films including single handed Ocean wrangling on Bafta award winning short film 'Lost & Found'
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  3D Generalist

  Cartoon Network Pakistan

  November 2006 - November 2006

  Soho London

  provided 3d futuristic manga town visuals and final comps for various interstitials for the italian CN branch 'Cantatoon'

• 3d & After Effects Generalist

  Soho Editors Talent & Training

  August 2006 - October 2006

  Various, London

  3D and After Effects motion graphics artist for hire

• Soho Editors

  August 2006 - October 2006

  3D and After Effects motion graphics artist for hire
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  Passion Pictures

  January 2006 - February 2006

  FX Artist on El manana music video for Gorillaz - bullet impacts / dust / smoke
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  Sky

  September 2005 - February 2006

  Softimage 3D generalist, various interstitials and bumpers for Sky and associated channels including turning sky one logo into a functional Stargate
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  Passion Pictures

  August 2005 - August 2005

  Gaurdian commercial
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  freelance Concept Artist

  Slice

  June 2005 - July 2005

  London

  Architectural visualisation of interior VIP Nike trainer showroom based in central london

• Unorthodox Styles

  March 2002 - May 2005

  Visualizer, Multimedia & Web author, 3D generalist in a small creative team with some big in-house projects like SpineTV & Crooked tongues also helping to win and work on some projects with Adidas, Nike, Universal Music, Philips, Budweiser

• Mission Control

  April 2000 - February 2002

  Single dedicated 3D Generalist working with a team of 20+ traditional storyboard artists to turn around fast paced storyboards and previz concepts for the soho commercials industry

• Tape Gallery Multimedia

  March 1996 - March 2000

  Multimedia designer and author for in house web sites and database applications and some small commercial 3D print & Animation work.

• Bereza Associates

  March 1994 - April 1996

  Multimedia Artist and programmer, pre internet started out on floppy disk making animations for commercials to be delivered and presented on macs or pcs. progressed onto CD's for the likes of Dorling Kindersley, Blublocker, Dudley catalogues etc