Jeff Wolverton

Summary

CG/FX Supervisor and FX Artist across tentpoles and prestige features. Expert in Houdini-driven water, fire, smoke, sand, ice, destruction, electricity, and bespoke ephemeral effects. BAFTA-nominated screenwriter of the Academy Award-winning short The ChubbChubbs!

Areas of Expertise

• Leading VFX crews and partnering with HODs/VFX Supervisors to realize the director’s vision
• Custom FX setups in Houdini and other DCCs across water, fire, smoke, sand, ice, explosions, debris, lightning, and unique liquids/ephemeral FX

Awards & Nominations

• Director & Writer — multi-award-winning short film Three AM
• BAFTA-nominated screenwriter — Academy Award-winning short The ChubbChubbs!
• Screenwriter — Sinbad: Beyond the Veil of Mists
• Voice actor — The ChubbChubbs! and The ChubbChubbs Save Xmas

Experience — Supervisor Roles

CG Supervisor — Spin VFX

• CG Supervisor on film Deep Water
• CG Supervisor on film Devil’s Mouth
• CG Supervisor on series Gen V (Season 2)
• CG Supervisor on film Ballerina
• CG Supervisor on two episodes of The Big Cigar
• Worked with VFX supervisor on battleplans of how to tackle upcoming effects
• Worked with producers and heads of production on bidding and scheduling of FX work
• Oversaw & provided creative feedback for effects artists

VFX Supervisor on short film Three AM

FX Supervisor — Scanline VFX

• FX Supervisor on Slumberland

FX Supervisor — Zoic

• FX Supervisor for the Zoic Dynamics team on Arrow, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Legends of Tomorrow, Stargirl an Fargo, The Right Stuff, The Haunting of Bly Manor, Disney's Zombies 2 and others
• Created superhero cape system for Superman & Lois
• Coached artists on best ways to approach an effect; jumped in on complex effects when needed
• Assigned work to the appropriate artists most suited to the task
• Created fluid, fire, goo, steam, explosion, destruction and superpower effects
• Interviewed prospective FX artists; worked with HR on hiring
• Created an FX library system to allow artists to create, store, recall and modify effects setups
• Worked with pipeline on improving efficiency of the effects production workflow

Experience — FX Artist Roles

• Lead FX Artist, Tower33 VFX

  ◦ Disney Music Video Project

  - Smoke, fire, lightning

• Senior Effects Artist, Scanline VFX

  ◦ The Flash

  - Time stretch effects

• Senior Effects Artist, Method Studios (Vancouver)

  ◦ Deadpool 2	- Blood effects
  ◦ The New Mutants	- Illyana (Majik) Arm Transformation
  ◦ Thor: Ragnarok	- Demon Fire

• Senior Effects Artist, Industrial Light & Magic (Vancouver)

  ◦ Star Wars: The Last Jedi	- Electricity, Fire
  ◦ Transformers: The Last Knight	- RoboDino Vomit
  ◦ Kong: Skull Island	- Smoke, Fire, Debris

• FX Lead, Digital Domain (Vancouver)

  ◦ Beauty and the Beast	- Blowing snow, Fog
  ◦ X-Men: Apocalypse	- Sand, Debris, "Skinbag" effect
  ◦ Deadpool	- Negasonic Teenage Warhead: Solar flares, Explosions
  ◦ All I See Is You	- Look Development

• Senior Effects Artist, MPC (Vancouver)

  ◦ Batman v Superman	- Cyborg "Motherbox", Doomsday lightning
  ◦ Monster Trucks	- Oil & Fluid Effects

• Senior Effects Artist, Framestore (London)

  ◦ Jupiter Ascending

  - Alien beam, Blood, Destruction

• Senior Effects Artist, LookFX (L.A.)

  ◦ Noah

  - Ocean

• Senior Visual Effects Artist, Digital Domain (L.A.)

  ◦ Into The Storm	- Tornadoes, Debris, RBD Destruction
  ◦ Iron Man 3	- Extremis effect development, Explosions, Thrusters

• Senior Visual Effects Artist, Sony Pictures Imageworks (L.A.)

  ◦ The Amazing Spider-Man	- Webs, Destruction, Debris
  ◦ Arthur Christmas	- Dust & Magic dust
  ◦ Green Lantern	- Central OA Beam, Ring Beams, Tomar Re's Construct
  ◦ G-Force	- Destruction, Dust
  ◦ Valkyrie	- Hitler assassination attempt explosion
  ◦ Hancock	- Destructions, Debris, Snow
  ◦ I Am Legend	- Explosions, Light Beams
  ◦ Spider-Man 3	- FX Animation Lead (Led "rebel" Sandman team & Glider Fx team)
  ◦ Ghost Rider	- Smoke effects
  ◦ Monster House	- Constance's "Spirit Cloud" at end of film
  ◦ The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe	- Water & mist in waterfall sequence, snow & ice

• Effects Animator, Stan Winston Studios (L.A.)

  ◦ Fantastic Four

  - Lead FX Artist (invisibility & force field effects)

• Effects Animator, DreamWorks Feature Animation

  ◦ Shark Tale

  - Oscar's lava lamp, Fish Bubbles and Ripples

• Visual Effects Artist, Rhythm & Hues Studios (L.A.)

  ◦ Knight and Day	- Destruction, Plane Explosion
  ◦ The Cat In The Hat	- Lightning
  ◦ X2: X-Men United	- Smoke, Debris, Explosion sweetening
  ◦ Daredevil	- Daredevil's vision effects

• Visual Effects Animator, Digital Domain (L.A.)

  ◦ Star Trek: Nemesis	- Destruction, Plane Explosion
  ◦ The Day After Tomorrow	- CGI snowy landscape tests

• Visual Effects Animator, Screenwriter & Voice Actor, Sony Pictures Imageworks

  ◦ The ChubbChubbs!	- Screenwriter (also performed the voice of the ChubbChubbs characters) — Oscar winner (Best Animated Short, 2003); BAFTA nominee, 2003
  ◦ Spider-Man	- FX Animation Lead (Green Goblin glider smoke)
  ◦ Hollow Man	- FX Animation Lead (muscles in invisibility transformation sequences)
  ◦ The Astronaut's Wife	- Procedural animation (lightning alien)
  ◦ Random Hearts	- CGI artist (airplane)
  ◦ Stuart Little	- CGI Lighting Artist (mouse brushing teeth and gargling shots)

• Screenwriter & Voice Actor, Pentafour Studios

  ◦ Sinbad: Beyond the Veil of Mists

  - Screenwriter, character voices

• Technical Director & Scratch Voice Actor, Walt Disney Feature Animation

  ◦ Tarzan	- CGI water, look development and rendering
  ◦ Dinosaur	- Scratch voice actor
  ◦ The Emperor's New Groove	- Visual development
  ◦ Hercules	- Look Development, lighting & rendering for the Hydra character

Screenwriting & Voice

• Screewriter - The ChubbChubbs! — BAFTA-nominated, Oscar-winning animated short
• Screenwriter — Sinbad: Beyond the Veil of Mists
• Scratch voice — Disney’s Dinosaur (Kron)

Tools & Technical Skills

Education

• Master of Science, The Ohio State University — Computer Science (Graphics)
• Bachelor of Science, The Ohio State University — Computer Graphics & Animation; minor in Philosophy

Other Experience

• Animator and co-founder, Jamination Animation, Inc.
• Created scoreboard animations for Madison Square Garden, NY Yankees, Chicago Bulls, others
• Scoreboard Animator, Manager of Ohio State University Scoreboard Staff
• Created animations for matrix scoreboards in football stadium & basketball arena. Created animation ideas, gags, pitched animation ideas to sponsors