Senior FX TD Freelance Brussels, Belgium
Houdini FX for film, series and cinematics: simulation, lookdev and the procedural tools behind them.
Credits with Framestore Unit Image UFX benuts
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Production shots I’m allowed to show, plus personal projects and R&D. Open a row for the video and the story.
The Call — League of Legends
A three-month gig on Riot Games’ Season 2022 cinematic at Unit Image in Paris, where I also did the shading, lighting and most of the renders of my FX.
What I did
Massive Explosion
A blast in a rocky desert, inspired by the big explosion in Rogue One: explosion, shock wave, trails, rock destruction and debris. I did every 3D part (FX, lighting, modeling, shading, layout) and rendered it in Mantra; @Antoine Jaspar did the comp.
89k views on YouTube
How to Train Your Dragon
Framestore’s live-action How to Train Your Dragon.
What I did
Lockwood & Co.
Ghosts for Netflix’s Lockwood & Co.
What I did
The Wheel of Time
Season 2 of The Wheel of Time.
What I did
L’enfant du désert
A sandstorm crossing the desert in benuts’ feature film, with ostriches running through it.
What I did
Others
An object burning through the atmosphere: the glowing plasma trail over the Earth, then how it’s built, an aura made in SOPs around the object’s shape.
A volume HDA that turns an ocean surface into underwater sun rays and caustics, after Avatar: The Way of Water. Written up for 80.lv.
Solar flares made only with MaterialX shaders and rendered in Karma, inspired by Dune: Part Two. Comp by @Antoine Jaspar.
A lockdown study of FX basics: soft-constraint RBD for the ash, wispy smoke and ember shading. Comp by @Antoine Jaspar.
A Zippo flame that looks finished right in the Houdini viewport, with no render or comp. Custom VEX gives it a springy tail.
I package my R&D as HDAs and .hip files on Gumroad, most of them free.
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Feature films, series and cinematics I’ve worked on as an FX TD and FX artist. Hover a credit for a preview, click or tap it to see what I did on it.
Upcoming
Percy Jackson and the Olympians
FX Technical Director
Upcoming
Avengers: Doomsday
FX Technical Director
Upcoming
Godzilla x Kong: Supernova
Special effects
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What I didThe desert sandstorm: smoke FX, in four layers (background, puffy and fine midground, foreground).
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What I didThe debris of the dragon hitting the cliffs (RBD and smoke), the water splashes (FLIP and whitewater) and the sand (Vellum grains), plus a lot of post-sim tweaks on the water.
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What I didBrought in at the end of the project for two FX: the electric bolts of the Tesla coils inside the TimeRipper, built fully in SOPs, and the energy flowing out of it, particles rasterized into volumes.
What I didThe air distortion around Appa’s tail and feet: smoke FX, used as a distortion map in comp.
Visuals not public yet.Contact me to see them.
What I didSlow-motion FX only: a smoke grenade, rain droplets with small crown splashes on the soldiers, and a muzzle flash going from real time to ultra slow motion.
What I didSmoke columns and embers.
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What I didThe smoke shockwave, and the channeling: curves FX, with no simulation.
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What I didThe smoky face, Annabel Ward’s smoke ghost, and the ethereal energy coming out of the ring.
What I didCotton candy: around 60 million strands.
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What I didThe souls absorption (magic FX, particles only), the helmet fire (Vellum cloth deforming a fire sim whose particles are rasterized into volumes at the end), the weapon’s ice trail, the meteor tip (no simulation) and the pillar crushing (RBD, smoke and particle debris), with the shading, lighting and most of the renders of my FX.
What I didAssisted @Bruno Pollet on a procedural city, in the early days of Solaris, and did the plane crash (pyro sim).
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Then
I started in 2009, at 13, making Dragon Ball energy balls in After Effects CS3 from YouTube tutorials, on the family PC. I had no idea it could be a job. I just wanted to be like Goku.
Then came 3D with Cinema 4D, and then Houdini: every time I open it, I feel like a kid in a sandbox. I studied VFX at Haute École Albert Jacquard (2016–2019) and taught myself Houdini alongside it. My student profile said: I want to be a Senior FX TD and to work on huge films!
Today
I’m a freelance Senior FX TD, based in Brussels.
After an internship at benuts, FX at UFX in Brussels and Riot Games’ The Call at Unit Image in Paris, I joined Framestore in 2022. I’ve worked with Framestore on several occasions since, first on staff, then as a freelancer: Deadpool & Wolverine, How to Train Your Dragon, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Godzilla x Kong: Supernova.
I went freelance in 2024 and have worked for several studios since, Framestore and NMBRS among them: simulation, lookdev and tools, remotely or on site, in French or English. I also like to share what I learn through free tools, breakdowns and mentoring.
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