• Designs and creates FX animation, procedural simulation, dynamic simulation, particle and fluid systems • Responsible for setting-up and wrangling heavy particle effects and enormous crowd shots • Excellent pipeline scripting ability • Solid compositing ability, can wrangle blue-screen extractions, working understanding of Nuke • Can write plug-ins, debug simulations and write set up and surface shaders with proficiency • Can write/hack procedural surface shaders and volumetric shaders with proficiency • Can animate moderate objects with proficiency • Can pick-up new techniques quickly and easily and can debug just about anything • Sets a standard for all Technical Directors in continually raising the bar for speed, quality of work and adaptability