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HOUDINI FX FOR FILM + GAMES INSTRUCTORS

CHRIS RYAN

MASTERCLASS LEADER: VISUAL EFFECTS

Chris Ryan is a visual effects and CGI supervisor with over 20 years of experience in the creation and design of visual effects and graphics for commercials, feature films, music videos, and other marketing mediums. He has worked for studios including Zoic, Method, and FuseFX. Ryan began his career with Metrolight Studios in Los Angeles, but has worked in Canada for the past 17 years as a CG supervisor, technical director and pipeline specialist. His many film and television credits include Black Panther, The Finest Hours, The Huntsman: Winter’s War, The Great Gatsby and Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey.

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DARVIN MANWAH

3D + VFX DEPARTMENT LEAD

Darvin is the Compositing Supervisor at Side Street Post and a visual effects producer from Vancouver, BC. A graduate of Vancouver Film School, his professional work includes Netflix’s ‘Spectral’, ‘Aliens Ate My Homework’ and ‘The Mist’, Marvel’s ‘Legion’, ‘Falling Skies’ and ‘Once Upon a Time’. Darvin also volunteers with ACM SIGGRAPH S3R3 as a Portfolio Review Mentor. His short film ‘OutPost Alpha’ is in post production this summer where he served as VFX Supervisor and  Producer.

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SHAUN MCLELLAN

SCRIPTING + DYNAMICS

Shaun McLellan is a Canadian Houdini Effects Technical Director (FXTD) currently residing in Vancouver, Canada. He specializes in Houdini Fluid, Pyro, RBD, Crowd Simulation and Procedural Geometry, Shading, and Animation generation and Mantra rendering for feature film visual effects along with skills in Maya, 3DS Max, Thinking Particles, Zbrush, Nuke, and Photoshop, Unity and Unreal. Over the past several years Shaun has worked on films including Aquaman, Detective Pikachu, The New Mutants, Justice League, A Wrinkle in Time, and more.

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