Kev Ryan - 3D FX & Motion Graphics

03/04/2017

Check out our breakdown for Season 4 of Black Sails, featuring a ridiculously OTT MoGraph sequence from myself at the start of it!

Screen Scene VFX worked alongside the show's VFX Supervisor Erik Henry on the last season of Starz hit drama Black Sails.

13/02/2017

Started messing with the new Vray in work and it led me to creating a random Synthwave/80's design inspired picture.

12/12/2016

Not very Christmassy I know but I wanted to try this out after seeing similar effects online. The result of bringing a FUME FX sim into Stoke MX and meshing the resulting particles with Frost. Rendered with Vray, comped in Nuke, and with a bit of Royalty Free music from Incompetech added in as well!

04/12/2016

28/10/2016

So 'tis the Friday before Halloween, my favourite holiday of the year, and I'm popping in here with a little bit of messing in Houdini.

I've no idea what it's supposed to be, but it's orange and purple with a few green bits in so...Happy Halloween!

16/08/2016

So I've been playing about with Houdini! Having loads of fun! Basically honing my skillset so I can use it for evil...

16/07/2016

So at long last I'm getting around to posting this, my entry for the Animation Art Show this year. A Particle Caricature of Phil Lynott!

07/06/2016

So it's definitely Summer-time now (first big thunderstorm reminding us that despite the sunshine we still live in Ireland) and I felt it was high time I dropped in with an UPDATE!
I've been incredibly quiet around these parts after 2 monster projects working with Screen Scene. I mean my last update here was in January before I started back into work so I best explain myself.

First of all I was afforded the chance to work on one of my favourite shows, Game of Thrones, for it's sixth season doing some very messy 3D effects work, and we followed this up with a few weeks working on the new Independence Day film creating a nice big 3D VFX sequence.
Both projects pushed me to hitherto unbelievable limits and I can only look forward to new similar opportunities within Screen Scene.

For more personal projects I entered a piece into this years Animation Art Show, which I must upload here and there's a couple of bits uploaded onto My Vimeo, which I'm going to get on here retroactively, but in the meantime here's the last thing I rendered, a nice messy blood test in Phoenix FD.

Hope you're enjoying the humidity and get yourself out for a bit of fun.
Talk to ya later.

Kev

A quick messy RND simulation with Chaos Group's PFD. Definitely need to tweak a huge chunk of settings for how the blood sticks to the wall, tweak with how…

14/01/2016

I'm living in a fantasy right now, the first two films I've worked on are nominated for multiple including Best Picture.

Best of luck to Brooklyn and Room!

The nominees for the 88th annual Academy Awards are finally here, signaling the height of awards season. Now that they Golden Globes have surprised and confused, here's a glimpse of who will take...

09/01/2016

Here you go! A HD version of BB-8 synced to a mildly remixed version of the Cantina Music!

It's a bit later then I planned as i spent the first few days of the year catching up on some absolutely cracking video games I missed out on. I highly recommend Crypt of the NecroDancer, Ori and the Blind Forest and Axiom Verge. I have Soma to play yet but I've been putting it off as I'm a big scaredy-cat.

Hope the first week of 2016 has treated you all well.

Kev

This is "BB-8" by kevryanart on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

01/01/2016

So 2015 is done and dusted. I hope you're not feeling too rough after New Year's Eve and are looking forward to 2016 as I am!

Star Wars font by Boba Fonts!

21/12/2015

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Kev Ryan!

Closing out a frankly crazy 2015, wherein it seems that my efforts in preceding years seemed to pay off immensely. Although it meant working on far fewer personal projects, I was afforded the chance to work on many wonderful professional projects this year and I'm looking forward to a busy 2016 to boot!

Now if you'll excuse me! I must begin the festivities with something warm and alcoholic.