demo reel – 2025

Latest Work (2023 – 2025)

Most recently, I helped a local documentary production company build a sustainable pipeline and workflow to produce 3 season of an indigenous children’s program.  While supporting a very tight budget though scope management, pipeline tooling, and efficiency planning, I was also involved in every aspect of 3D production from modeling to rendering, with a primary focus on completing about 80% of  all the VFX work personally using Blender.

These new capabilities have allowed Zoot Studios to pursue more long form animation work and market themselves as a documentary company with an in-house computer graphics division. We proved this capability in my last project with the company, a documentary for NOVA covering the lost city of Angkor Wat and the mysteries in it’s fall. This project utilized Unity assets ported to Blender for composition and rendering.

This work was most rewarding for me in that I was able to help a small team, unsure they could complete the first few episodes, to grow into a solid team a that successfully produced 3 seasons, in three lip-synced languages!

• CG/Pipeline Supervisor – episodic series
• Procedural FX & simulations in Blender
• Documentary Unity asset conversion and crowd placement
• Tracking handling foundation shots
• Blender geometry nodes for bricks system
• Bespoke script and tool creation
• FX look development and lighting in Blender

demo reel – 2023

Scanline VFX (2022 – 2023)

In my 15 month contract with Scanline VFX, I worked remotely in a new role of Generalist Supervisor, advocating for project resources, looking at pipeline feasibility, and doing early shot lighting tasks. As a new role within the company, while learning proprietary pipeline tooling and attempting to lead as many as 18 concurrent projects, this role oversaw teams in Europe, Montreal, Vancouver, Los Angeles, and South Korea.

This time was a welcomed return to the high end visual effects world after spending seven years almost exclusively focused in Blender and long form animation work. I miss the many, many seasoned professionals on my team there, while really getting to know far too few of them.

• Resource management and advocation to team leadership
• Pipeline and tooling evaluation
• Minimal direct on-screen shot work

demo reel – 2021

Tangent Animation (2015-2021)

CG Supervisor on Netflix’s NextGen and Maya and the Three.

Focused on technical setup, pipeline design, technical direction, and shot finaling across the shows.

Tangent Animation grew out of OpusVFX through our production of Emma’s Wings, the first animated feature produced in Manitoba, Canada, and Ozzy, the first animated feature produced entirely using Blender.  These projects  represent cutting edge success under significant challenges of building a studio/pipeline with limited resources.

Following this early success, Tangent was contracted to complete a full animated feature for Netflix entitled NextGen, a sweet and action packed movie with some of the most fun awesome I’ve ever been able to help deliver!

Netflix then secured Tangent to complete the nine part miniseries Maya and the Three, a dream project for Jorge R. Gutiérrez of El Tigre and The Book of Life fame.  It was an honor to be able to contribute to this absolutely beautifully art directed and so darkly written visual extravaganza!

When client-side forced Tangent to close it’s doors in 2021, the studio development team had been well on it’s way to completing it’s first commercial software, already contributed open source tools to the world, and was only a few weeks away from unleashing an end-to-end Universal Scene Description (USD) pipeline. My time spent on the USD pipeline development team was truly special, and I still miss the team dearly.

The 2 reels here showcase a small part of the work I was able to directly provide in delivering these shows.

• CG Supervisor – full feature pipeline
• Technical and pipeline guidance / leadership
• Bespoke script and tool creation
• Shot finaling at scale

demo reel – 2014

Opus VFX Inc. (2010 – 2014)

As partner in OpusVFX Inc., I worked in pipeline and workflow design/leadership, building and managing bid sheets and budgets, project bidding, all aspects of 3d production. This was a wonderful opportunity to experience the wider aspects of the business side of visual effects and animation production.

• Facility 3D supervisor
• Business management – company partner
• All 3D related tasks and task management from pipeline and proof designs thru model, surface, rig, animation, light and renders
• Bespoke script and tool creation
• Bidding

demo reel – 2011

Frantic Films / Prime Focus World (1997 – 2009)

An archival look at my foundational years in the 3d animation industry — set extensions, destruction, and much bespoke effects work. During this time, as the first employee at Frantic Films, I was able to help grow the studio from a small shop at Stafford and Grosvenor in Winnipeg, to an international studio with offices in Vancouver, Los Angeles and even Australia for a time.

• Set extensions & matte work
• Destruction & debris FX
• Procedural FX and simulations
• FX look development and lighting
• Practical-to-digital integration
• Bespoke script and tool creation
• 3D supervision and leadership
• Bidding