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Caleb Govan

Summary

Passionate artist with 4+ years of professional experience in the entertainment industry. Providing high quality work during fast paced deadlines/environments. Highly driven to boost a company's revenue, with an innovative work ethic, & leadership abilities. Achieving to build visually stunning award-winning games with AAA title quality.

Overview

4
4
years of professional experience

Work History

VFX Artist

Undying Games
09.2023 - Current


  • Undying Games upcoming AAA title project - Ethereal: Clash of Souls
  • Working with Team Leads, applying any feedback to ensure that the quality expectations are constantly met & improving
  • Producing real time FX for projects, creating FX attack style animations, showing steps of the process along the way when needed
  • Provided high quality FX work that is readable for characters, movements, & actions using particle simulation
  • Matching art style of desired look with action FX animations made in Houdini/Unreal.

FX Artist Freelancer

Upwork
03.2021 - Current


  • Skilled in several disciplines such as modeling, animation, & 2D art
  • Focusing in Houdini, Unreal, Maya, Blender, Nuke, Python & Lua
  • Freelancing services using FX games, videos, to contracted clients
  • Creating consistent high quality & eye-catching FX
  • Real-time FX using Photoshop, Maya, and in-game FX systems
  • Providing exceptional communication skills and team collaboration
  • Efficiently in render engines, & meeting various game design expectations
  • Creating 3D graphics, real-time FX, particle, physics, ribbons, blueprints, & simulations
  • Able to create Water Simulations, Pyro Simulations, Vellum Simulations
  • Design custom materials and graphics shaders.

FX Artist

FX Mentorship
12.2023 - 03.2024


  • Quickly mastered the understandings of Houdini FX
  • Efficiently worked on industry workload and deadlines
  • Obtained quality information alongside FX mentor, Kate Xagoraris
  • Mentorship taught proper ways to: render a FX pipeline, save on render cost/time, Water Simulations, Pyro Simulations, Vellum Simulations & other various methods.

FX Lead Manager

Urbanimation
01.2021 - 11.2023


  • Coordinate with cross-functional teams to identify process gaps and develop solutions, resulting in new techniques and efficient completions
  • Helped to support the team by making FX work that matches with the lm needs
  • Gave feedback to ensure that the quality of the assets were up to standards
  • Implemented the feedback that was given on my FX work to grow as an artist and grow the company

Education

Computer Animation -

Full Sail University
Winter Park, FL
06.2021

Skills

  • Houdini
  • Maya
  • Unreal Engine 5
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Blender
  • Hard Surface Modeling
  • Character Modeling
  • Real Time FX
  • FX Particle Sim & Cloth Sim
  • Python & Lua/Scripting
  • Physics, Ribbons, Blueprints

Reel

  • https://www.artstation.com/jamalg
  • https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamalgovan/

References


  • Cierra Hatley, Laika Studios, 313.685.5616, cierrahatley@gmail.com


  • Kate Xagoraris, Spin VFX, eleanorxagoraris@gmail.com

Timeline

FX Artist

FX Mentorship
12.2023 - 03.2024

VFX Artist

Undying Games
09.2023 - Current

FX Artist Freelancer

Upwork
03.2021 - Current

FX Lead Manager

Urbanimation
01.2021 - 11.2023

Computer Animation -

Full Sail University

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