I served as the Lead Generalist Artist for ILM San Francisco on Project Hail Mary, directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller.
Initially joining the team as a substitute Gen Supe while the existing supe was on vacation, I became the technical backbone of the gen crew for the rest of the show. I built & taught the team a series of semi-automated modular workflows in Houdini Solaris that allowed the small crew, many of whom were new to Solaris and had varying levels of Houdini experience, to confidently author hundreds of shots and iterations. In addition to running my own shots, I also contributed to the look development of planet Adrian and got to creatively own and execute the cloud filled “space fishing” sequence.
Generalist Team
Production Coordinator
La Shay Carr
Gen Supervisor
Fabrizio Fioretti
Gen Lead
Tim Little
Gen Artists
Masayuki Koyama
James Miller
Atsuko Nagano
Nozomi Nakano
Ashish Patel