rob_chapman

Work

Guardians of the Galaxy

MPC · Crowd Technical Director · 2013–2014

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

Happy Mushroom · Virtual Art department FX · 2021

The Lion King, Wildebeest Stampede Sequence

MPC · Crowd Lead · 2017–2019

Aquaman

MPC · Crowd Lead · 2017–2019

Aquaman 2, Virtual Art Department

Eyeline Studios · FX Lead · 2021–2022

Pokémon Detective Pikachu

MPC · Crowd Lead · 2017–2019

Shogun, Episodic

Goodbye Kansas · FX Crowd TD · 2023

Exodus: Gods and Kings

MPC · Crowd TD · 2013–2014

The Meg 2

Eyeline Studios · Virtual Production · 2021–2022

Snow White

MPC · Virtual Art Department FX Artist / TD · 2022–2023

Wheel of Time season 2

MPC · Key Artist FX · 2022–2023

Spirit Untamed

Jellyfish Pictures · FX Sequence Lead / Crowd Lead · 2020–2021

Call of the Wild

MPC · Crowd Lead · 2017–2019

Netflix title: Bodies

Studio AKA · FX fluid sim artist · 2023–2024

Lost & Found movie

Studio AKA · Lead FX Artist · 2006–2013

Bladerunner Rick 2049

2049

BLIGHT.IO

Design, direction and play-testing · 2026

Cinematic Machine Vision HUD

Creative Coder / Technical Director · 2026

exploring creative code and Machine vision aesthetics

 

GPU flocking realtime audio reactive

 

GPUspherical flocking system

 

Machine Vision Aesthetic: Gaze tracking

 

Mind Blown

 

NetCFD file to VDB velocity

 

Open CV Blob detection

 

Procedural Chloroplasts

 

Real time Procedural wind noise

 

realtime FX

Look dev reel 2026 · 2026

Shoreline: Walney

Creative Coder · 2026

Custom Metahuman R&D

 

Dust Storm Waltz

 

Graffiti deconstruction doodle

 

let there be light

 

Metahuman for Houdini Animation ingest FBX

 

ML Emil to meta human

 

Pretty Good Pots #1 Teee Stump Pot

 

Realtime caustics

 

Realtime ground fog Shader

 

Realttime caustics, Quartz Crystal on coal

 

Sand FX, houdini, MPM solver

 

Sandmanseries, instagram advert cracking sand effect

Studio B · 2025

Strands redit

 

Unreal engine custom metahuman 5.6 eyelid blink fix

 

YOLO mchine vision implemented

 

2024 All Crowd shots Reel

2024

2024 Unreal Engine Realtime FX reel

2024

Admiral Campaign, Blown Away 30s

Studio AKA · FX Artist · 2024

Cardboard VR pitch, captured on Oculus Rift

 

Chaos Serpent

Art direction; acrylic series in progress · 2024

Cloud Flyby with custom MIE scattering

 

Creative Code, P5js, Flocking with Predator / Prey interactive relationship

 

Day 1 Mardini Spiral Node

 

Duality Abstract explorations

 

Fake Mie scattering cheap vertex color effect

 

Gaussian Spat Tree trunk

 

Gaussian Splatted Tree trunk Base

 

Houdini Vellum, melting, tearing skies research

 

In Waves & War

Studio AKA · FX Technical Director · 2024

Macromedia Flash fighting game

 

Mardini Day 13 RBD fracture material node, Animation winner on this day!

 

Mardini Day 16

 

Mardini Day 17

 

Mardini Day 19

 

Mardini day 20 entry

 

Mardini day 25

 

Mardini Day 27

 

Mardini Day 28

 

Mardini day 9 entry

 

Mardini entry

Day 24 Crowd Motion Path

Mardini2024 day 21

 

Maridin Day 6

 

Power of Exponent - 1 Tutorial XSI

 

Qiddiya Esports District

Revenant · Unreal Engine Technical Artist · 2024

Realtime shader inside realtime environment

 

Robot Dreams

 

Skull made of blue mosaic tiles

 

Softimage XSI, ICE, Grey Scott reaction Diffussion algorithm

 

SSS shader in 3Delight render testing

 

Stand instance collision swapping for live spring based deformations

 

The Garden of Earthly Delights 2024

2024

Tree stump on Street photogrametry

 

tree stump reality capture 1

 

VR look dev. realtime

 

VR Scouting shader work unreal engine 4.27

 

VR scouting shader work. realtime 60 + fps

 

XSI, fibonacci maths, challenge to unfurl also added

 

XSI, ICE, Maths, Cassini Oval

 

XSI, Pyroclastic smoke, Particles

 

XSI, RBD dynmanics ICE control

 

XSI, SLipstream Renderer, Volume particles

 

XSI, Worley Noise

 

200AD bradleycharacter model

 

2023 Fluid / Vellum FX reel

2023

Avalon VR Experience

DGC · VR / FX Consultant · 2023

Cloud sim rolling

Houdini Pyro / fluid FX

Cyberpunk 2077 Rick

 

Frrrractals

 

GLSL Casini Oval equation, Real time Shader

 

Grandads war photo discovery

 

my first Realtime Shader, GLSL

 

open ai musings and explorations

 

realtime VDB converted to Volume slices Unreal Engine 4.27

 

Softimage Creatives (Sic) Talk clouds Part III

 

Softimage Creatives (SiC) talk Part I

 

Softimage Creatives (SiC) Talk, Clouds Part II

 

Spirograph Xxpanding realtime shader

 

Unreal Engine 5, VDB's Path tracing... almost realtime with DLSS

 

Unreal Engine Virtual Art Department Realtime showreel 2023

2023

XSI ICE, whats this Alligator noise

 

XSI, Ice, Fake SSS color on vertex and distance to a light / null

 

XSI, ICE, Math, Hookes Law

 

XSI, ICE, Math, Laplacian Diffuse

 

Arch Viz Unreal Engine with Mocap

 

Bees

 

Flowmap Research

 

Fluid Ninja VFX Tools Demonstration

 

morph target face rig tutorial Unreal Engine

 

Realtime Julia Quaternions in browser

 

Realtime Surf breaking, Ocean Waves

 

Underwater testing

 

Unreal Engine Refraction shader tests

 

XSI, Ice, Lagoa

Particle Bee swarm simulation

Carlsberg commercial

Hide the Zebra · FX Artist · 2020–2021

Fractal Travels Folding

Happy Mushroom · 2021

Unreal Engine Live demo, animated skies and environments, god ray placements, Ant Man 3 VAD

2021

2020 Crowd reel, Latest Work

2020

2020 FX reel, latest work

2020

a few minutes in Softimage

 

Apple TV, 'Here we are'

Studio AKA · FX Lead · 2019–2020

Bullet sim manipulated in viewport

 

Deforming Strands tutorial

 

Flocking with Predator / Pray relationship

 

FX Georges_Méliès magical pouffe

 

low poly Bird, VR Painted in Blocks

 

mocap Animation to volume over time

 

MoneySupermarket, Bull: Calm

Untold Studios · Houdini Water FX TD · 2020

Pyroclastic mantra test

 

Raised by Wolves Titles

Studio AKA · 3D Simulation and destruction and look dev · 2019–2020

Sentinel Mech, Constructed in VR

 

Sprite cloud research

 

Volume Cloud Research

 

VR, TiltBrush Live Painting Eagle

 

XSI, Ice, vector maths is fun Collection of experiments

 

2017 F1 titles

BSkyB · FX artist · 2017

Adidas ZX Flux in-store visuals: Red, Blue, Grey & Black

U-Dox · 2015–2017

Adidas, Tubular Moving Image 3x Arenas

U-Dox · 2015–2017

Endemol Shine Group: Your Home Made Perfect pitch

Fluid Pictures · VR developer · 2017

Eska, Dear Evelyn interlude @ Camden Roundhouse for Ron Arad's Curtain Call

U-Dox · 2015–2017

Eska, Rock of Ages @ Ron Arad's Curtain Call

U-Dox · CG Director · 2015–2017

First VR sculpt tryout in Oculus Medium, Kaws

 

Pampers

Glassworks · Houdini / XSI fluid FX · 2017

Showreel 2017

2017

VR Painting in Tiltbrush of Van Gogh Wheatfield and Cyprus's

 

360 video testing VR with a nozzle dropping

 

Dark Wave

 

deep see angler fish

 

do robots dream

 

Growing Strands

 

Liquid logo dev

 

Mila shaders Sub surface scatter

 

Sea

 

Softimage XSI

Dry Ice simulation

Strand knitting

 

Synthesesia attempt

 

technology hand research

 

XSI, ICE, Particles development for a 60 sec BBC Oltmics launch

 

XSI, Ice, Particles. Magnetism repulsion rules set by distance and color

 

XSI, ICE, Whirlpool

 

3D showreel 2015

2015

Adidas Flux FW15 Key visuals

U-Dox · 2015

Camelot

Glassworks · Hair Technical Director · 2014

A Morning Stroll, short film

Studio AKA · FX Artist · 2006–2013

BBC Winter Olympics advert

Studio AKA · FX Artist · 2006–2013

Benecol Dairy free tests

Studio AKA · FX Artist · 2006–2013

Channel 4 / Lloyds TSB title stings

Studio AKA · FX Artist · 2006–2013

EuropaCorp, Jack et la Mécanique du Cœur

Walking the Dog · Senior VFX Artist · 2013

FX artist research & development reel from 2013

2013

Green Flag TVC

Studio AKA · FX Artist · 2006–2013

Guinness commercial promo

Studio AKA · FX Artist · 2006–2013

H. Samuel 20s

Studio AKA · FX Artist · 2006–2013

ITV I'm a Celebrity

Studio AKA · FX Artist · 2006–2013

Kleenex TVC, Ski

Studio AKA · Lead FX Artist · 2006–2013

Kleenex, Witch

Studio AKA · FX Artist · 2006–2013

Lead FX Artist Commercials Highlight Reel 2013

2013

Lead FX Artist Short Film Reel 2013

2013

Lloyds TSB Campaign

Studio AKA · FX Artist · 2006–2013

Lloyds TSB, BloodHound

Studio AKA · FX Artist · 2006–2013

Lloyds TSB, Olympic Flame 60s

Studio AKA · FX Artist · 2006–2013

Lloyds, GI

Studio AKA · FX Artist · 2006–2013

Lloyds, The Journey

Studio AKA · FX Artist · 2006–2013

Love Sport: Love Paintballing

Studio AKA · FX Artist · 2006–2013

Love Sport: Love the Dogs

Studio AKA · FX Artist · 2006–2013

Oatiflakes TVC

Studio AKA · Lead FX Artist · 2006–2013

Odeon Digital, title opener

Studio AKA · FX Artist · 2006–2013

Orange juice pitch

Studio AKA · 2006–2013

Orange, Bright top ups

Studio AKA · FX Artist · 2006–2013

Skype: Rock 30s

Studio AKA · FX Artist · 2006–2013

Statoil TVC

Studio AKA · FX Artist · 2006–2013

Stuck on a Sunday, short film

Studio AKA · FX Artist · 2006–2013

Toyota Campaign, Leaves & Paint

Studio AKA · FX Artist · 2006–2013

Toyota Campaign, Rock Slide

Studio AKA · FX Artist · 2006–2013

Toyota Charcoal

Studio AKA · FX Artist · 2006–2013

Varmints, short film

Studio AKA · FX Artist · 2006–2013

Woodside, test

Studio AKA · FX Artist · 2006–2013

BBC, London 2012 Olympic Torch Relay trailer

Studio AKA · FX Lead · 2012

Foster's 3D intro

Cartoon Network · 2006

Gorillaz - El Mañana

Passion Pictures · FX Artist · 2006

Italy dept 3D title sequence

Cartoon Network · 2006

Sky One Stargate title

BSkyB · 2005–2006

Sky Sports A1 Grand Prix racing

BSkyB · 2005–2006

Sky TV's Artsworld channel ID for sculpture 100 show

BSkyB · 2005–2006

'Stash' tag rebuilt and distorted into a Subware fan piece Advert

Unorthodox Styles · 2002–2005

3D showreel 2005

2005

Adidas 35th anniversary teaser

Unorthodox Styles · 2005

Adidas, 35th anniversary shoe releases video

Unorthodox Styles · 2005

Domestos 5x longer

Passion Pictures · 2005

Milk Run

Unorthodox Styles · 2002–2005

my code name is: milo 'all roads lead to fault'

Unorthodox Styles · Green screen and FX · 2002–2005

Philips, Mobile phone animation

Unorthodox Styles · 2002–2005

Scratch Perverts, Beatdown DJ Challenge animation

Unorthodox Styles · 2002–2005

self promo

Unorthodox Styles · 2002–2005

Stash AF1 secret code drop

Unorthodox Styles · 2002–2005

Stash nozzle drop

Unorthodox Styles · 2002–2005

The Guardian 'Re-Invention'

Passion Pictures · 2005

Unkle Never Never Land launch visuals

Unorthodox Styles · 2002–2005

Unkle Soundsystem animation

Unorthodox Styles · 2002–2005

VengaBoys, music video, 3D rocket ships

 

Wasp 3D

Unorthodox Styles · 2002–2005

3D Showreel 2003

2003

BSkyB logo character pitch

Mission Control · 2000–2002

Helicopter model

Mission Control · 2000–2002

Mission Control logo

Mission Control · 2000–2002

Royal Mail logo sting

Mission Control · 2000–2002

Album cover for 'Torque', No U Turn Records

Tape Gallery Multimedia · 1996–2000

cover for 'Technology' 12" by No U Turn Records

Tape Gallery Multimedia · 1996–2000

Creation Records Album Artwork

1996–2000

National Lottery 'Lotto' sting

Mission Control · 2000

Plazm 1998

Tape Gallery Multimedia · 1998

Showreel 1998

1998

Creative Circle honours 96

Tape Gallery Multimedia · 1996