The series IXE-13 is now available on Illico ! With AA Studios team in Montreal, I worked 4 months on this great dramatic project as Houdini and compositing VFX artist. This spy history set in 1945's Montreal has a beautiful film noir artistic direction and features Marc-André Grondin, Julie Le Breton et Vincent Leclerc.

All year 2022, I worked on the series Mégantic as visual effects artist in Houdini and compositing, creating huge explosions, flames and smokes over 38 shots. This big project was made with the AA Studios team in Montreal, supervised by Marc Hall, and added to 380 shots and 60 minutes of VFX. Mégantic tells the very dramatic stories of the victims who survived the oil train wreck that destroyed the city center of Lac-Mégantic and killed 47 persons in July 2013. The 8 episodes series received excellent critics and public reception. It was directed by Alexis Durand-Brault and produced by Sophie Lorain.

My work in this demo :

0:38 / 0:57 / 1:01 = Houdini fire sky simulations and renders

0:51 = Neighborhood on fire : all Houdini and compositing

1:02 = Wagons on fire with statue : all Houdini and compositing

1:04 = Firefighters : compositing

1:08 = Running in street : compositing

1:20 = Firefighters and ruins : all Houdini and compositing

1:25 = Parc on fire : all Houdini and compositing

1:42-2:07 = Wagons on fire : all Houdini and compositing

2:10 = City on fire : comp

Last week at CAFÉ-VFX conference in Montreal, I presented with Marc Hall, president of AA Studios, the VFX produced for Mégantic series. Marc explained the big challenge of creating 380 shots of CGI, where we recreated the 2013 disaster oil train wreck. Having worked on the project for a year, I showed in Houdini 3D environments, simulations and renders of huge explosions, fire trails, fire sky, and oil burning in the lake.