Duncan Ransom

About Duncan Ransom

Founder/Principal Creative + Technical director of The Endless Co. The Endless Co. is an experiential and VFX production studio inspired by the creative potential of emerging technologies. Innovation in Ai/XR, Holography, Large-Format Projection Mapping, Photogrammetry, and Data-Driven Visualization has enabled a new paradigm of creative exploration and tool-creation. This shift has allowed us to bring our extensive knowledge of Feature-Film VFX and Game Design pipelines to short-form immersive content and enterprise tool-building. Respect for every role in the creation process stands at our core. Our team of fine humans include, Academy Award-winning visual effects veterans to Game developers and technologists inspired by the evolving multi-sensory language of immersive design.

Experience

1. Founder Director of Creative Technology

   The Endless Co

   Mar 2014 — Present

   Duncan is the Founder and Director of Creative Technology at The Endless Collective, a VFX and immersive content studio merging art, technology and innovation. With a wealth of experience, Duncan has led over 100 initiatives as the Principal Creative + Technical Director for clients including Amazon, Google, Gucci and Intel. Drawing from his deep understanding of feature-film visual effects and real-time pipelines, he oversees a diverse global team of artists and developers, collaborating to create visual effects for films, immersive experiences and custom software tools.Before establishing The Endless Collective, Duncan served as a CG Story Artist and Animator at Framestore London, a renowned Visual Effects studio celebrated for its contributions to cinematic achievements like the Oscar-winning film, Gravity. Duncan\'s animation expertise has contributed to films including Edge Of Tomorrow, 47 Ronin, Wrath Of The Titans, and Gravity. His work on Gravity earned him and his fellow Framestore team members an Academy Award in the VFX category. He has also collaborated with industry-leading post-production studios including MPC, Prime Focus, and Rising Sun Pictures.Duncan has been invited to share his insights at events including SXSW, IFC New York, AMP Innovations, X-media Labs, Screen Australia, M&M Conference, and Mutek Montreal, advising companies with technical direction for immersive and experiential projects.Driven by an interminable curiosity connecting technology to the minds of artists, geeks and dreamers, Duncan finds inspiration in the evolving landscape of emerging technologies and their potential to improve the future.

Education

• Scott Eaton Anatomy for Artists

  Human Anatomy

  2011 — 2011

• UNSW

  BA Fine Arts, Film/Animation

  1999 — 2003

• Rapt Animation Course

  Advanced Character Animation Techniques Course

  2007 — 2007

Skills

• Computer Animation
• Texturing
• Feature Films
• Visual Effects
• Lighting
• Mel
• Modeling
• Commercials
• 3d Studio Max
• Maya
• Character Rigging
• Nuke
• Film
• Facial Animation
• 3d
• Animation
• Mental Ray
• Computer Graphics
• Xsi
• Character Animation
• Zbrush