Following the May delivery of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 2 I began improving my skills as a Houdini FX TD (still working at Gradient Effects), creating a fairly robust snow rig. This setup was used on many shots during the first sequence of Dreamhouse where Daniel Craig leaves his office job in New York City. Some shots had practical snow, others needed a blend of cg and practical snow, and a few shots were filmed in a green screen stage and featured entirely cg snow.

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Starting in March 2011 I was hired by Gradient Effects (located in Los Angeles, CA) as an FX artist to start work on the final Harry Potter film. The shots I worked on were part of the ending flashback sequence of Snape’s memories in the pensive. Specifically I created thousands of magic “willow-flies” which came to life and flew off of a willow tree. I also worked with volumetric effects to create trails and other phenomena on remaining shots in the sequence.
Breakdowns will be released come the Christmas release of the DVD.
Software: Houdini, Nuke, Linux

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