Jack Mumford

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

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ABOUT JACK MUMFORD

Senior 3D Artist with over a decade professional industry experience, having worked as Asset Lead with Hard Surface and Organic modelling proficiency, overseeing many high profile projects. Proven credentials working at award winning studios, working in the field of VFX & Animation for Film, TV, Advertising, Marketing and Videogames & VR immersive. Studios and Clients include Seed Animation, Collective, Passion, Framestore, NViz, Proof, Jellyfish Pictures, Unilever, Netflix, Disney+, Marvel, Warner Bros and many more. Most recent works include: Fallout, The Last of Us, Paddington 3, How To Train Your Dragon, Snow White, The Barbie Movie to name a several. Credits include: IF, Guardians of The Galaxy Vol.3, Moon Knight, Fantastic Beasts 2 & 3, 1917, Fast and Furious 9 & more. Hands on creatively, can correspond with clients, as well as oversee large teams by delegating, leading, mentoring/guiding and supporting team members effectively through constructive critique & extensive knowledge. Versatile yet proficient skillset across the entire pipeline that extends to Effects/Art Direction/Illustration/Generalist/Texturing/Realtime/Shading/Lighting/Modelling/Rendering/Compositing & much more. With Texturing/Look Dev as a forte, achieved a range of styles from Stylised, to Photoreal, all the way to Hyperreal & anything in between across Characters, Creatures, Props, Environments & Vehicles. Extremely proficient in Adobe Creative Suite, Maya, Blender, Substance, Mari, Mudbox, 3DS Max, Photoshop, Zbrush and Nuke, advanced rendering packages such as Redshift, Arnold, Cycles & EEVEE, game engines; Unreal Engine 5 & other industry experience of Unity, Nvidia Omniverse & procedural solutions, simulations & particle systems such as EmberGen, Niagra & MASH. Additionally also very adaptable in quickly learning & utilising most new technological advancements in software and techniques whether already familiar or unfamiliar software as such; programs include, but not limited to, Houdini (with Karma), Da Vinci Resolve & more whilst also taking advantage of evolving tools like AI. Often integrating creativity & technicality seamlessly in parallel to each other. Fully PC and Mac literate. Equipped for remote. 5k Ultrawide + 5k pen input display, Ryzen 9 16 core 7950x3D CPU, Nvidia RTX 4090 GPU, 96gb Ram, 8TB SSD +10TB HDD, M4 Mac Mini, iPad Pro BA Honours in Animation. Strong communication & organisational skills, personable, exceptional eye for detail, reliable & can adapt well to variable pressure when meeting deadlines & targets when working individually & as a team.