Tony Fan

Tony Fan

Mid-level FX TD / 14 yrs

Dallas, TX

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Technical Director

The Monkey King (2023)

Technical Director

Rumble (2021)

Pipeline Technical Director

Scooby (2020)

FX Technical Director

Rock Dog (2017)

Technical Director

Son of Jaguar (2017)

Simulated Crowd Lead

The Book of Life (2014)

Look Development

Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (2013)

Development Artist

R.I.P.D. (2013)

Development Artist

Life of Pi (2012)

Work History
  • FX Technical Director

    Reel FX

    April 2013 - Present

    designed and created the crowd pipeline and all of the tools

  • FX Development TD

    Rhythm & Hues Studios

    April 2011 - Present

    Developing Houdini tools for importing and rendering crowds and control each instance's flavor variation
    Developing Houdini tools to bake various types of textures and animated texture sets
    Developing custom Python Filters that allows overrides at render time, file validation, and post processing on rendering imagery
    Developing tools used for look development (shader assignment, texture assignment, creating flavor variations)
    Performance monitoring and tuning

  • Systems Operator

    Rhythm & Hues Studios

    January 2010 - March 2011

    Development diagnostic tools
    Web application, image gallery design, streamlining video compression and playlist generation
    Email server administration

  • Technology Administrator

    Wind-Up Records

    September 2005 - August 2007

    Database administration
    Back end and front end web application development
    Data packaging and export

  • Web Developer

    Capital IQ, Division of Standard & Poors

    2003 - 2005

    Database administration
    Back end web application development (data input and validation)

  • Software Developer

    Capital IQ

    2003 - 2005

    Web application development
    Database administration

Education
  • New York University

    2007 - 2009
  • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

    1998 - 2002