To celebrate the achievements of all the amazing Flame artists who have advanced VFX creation over the past 20 years, Autodesk will present the Flame Award.
Nominated and voted on by you, Autodesk staff, and a special Flame advisory board, the Flame Award will be presented to the ultimate Flame artist.
This is an artist who has demonstrated a high level of creativity, originality, community involvement, and dedication to advancing the art and science of visual effects creation through the skilled use of Flame.
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Anthony Brownmoore
Short Bio
Anthony is a Smoke and Flame artist in London, with over ten years' experience in visual effects and post production. He has worked on a range of long and short form, from vfxing international advertising campaigns, including British Gas, The Times, Carlsberg and Argos to on-lining features. In 2011 he was recognised for his significant contribution to the award winning Sunday Times Rich List campaign, picking up four British Arrow awards as Director. His latest venture is vfx supervising and leading on short film, Rep 5901, which was bought to life on his own Smoke 2013. Along with acclaimed motion designer, Allison Brownmoore, they have launched vfx/motion design studio, Blue Spill, and are currently setting up shop in London.
Brian Mulligan is a multi-award winning editor, and has a strong commitment to his craft and to broadcast television. Local broadcast television reflects and influences the ideals of a community and for the past 20 years, Brian has helped shape the on-air television culture at WTHR-TV in Indianapolis where his work is seen by 1.2 million households every day. Being a broadcast editor often means you are an editor, producer, writer, & graphic designer. His main tool is Autodesk Smoke, and has been a Smoke editor/artist since 2003. So, he is ready to handle any creative task that comes his way.
Brian believes that completely understanding your creative tools is the key to using them creatively, efficiently, and effectively.
Owner of Screaming Death Monkey Special FX
Jeremy Hunt is an Emmy nominated visual effects artist and sometimes director with credits spanning 17 years. Jeremy is probably best known as the co-creator of "405," widely credited as the internet's first viral video. He is also the Director and Special Effects Lead for fIX IT IN POST.
Vico Sharabani
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Formerly a partner at rhinofx for 12 years, Vico's portfolio includes commercials for Fortune 500 companies such as Nike, Mercedes, and AT&T, music-videos for Coldplay/Rihanna, KanYe West, and work for Sex & The City to name a few projects. Autodesk describes Vico as 'legendary' for his Flame work. Servicing the advertising and entertainment industries for over 23 years, Vico is involved in the project management across Creative, Production, and Technical endeavors. He is also involved with the TEDcommunity 'Ads Worth Spreading' and TEDxEast.
VFX Supervisor
Flame artist and VFX Supervisor, Colin Renshaw cofounded Alt so he could indulge his ego and maniacal obsession with making cool work.
Urs Furrer
Short Bio
Flame Artist
Internationally awarded Flame artist Urs Furrer likes creative collaboration, learning new tricks, figuring out that it can be done and takes his coffee without sugar.