Spotlight on our contributors

Seth Worley Seth is a commercial and film director based in Nashville, TN. He’s the resident filmmaker at Red Giant, where he produces online content to show off Red Giant’s filmmaking tools. On page 24 Seth shares his filmmaking tips and techniques. www.sethworley.com

Bhaumik Patel Former Escape Studios tutor Bhaumik has created the online training site Amaya Academy. This issue Bhaumik shares his Maya and mental ray techniques as he reveals how to create a dramatic photoreal render of a vehicle at sunset, on page 58. www.amayaacademy.com

Francis-xavier Martins Francis-xavier is a character artist and CG generalist, with over a decade of experience in games, media and TV. Francis-xavier joins the Artist Q&A team on page 34 to help solve your CG art dilemmas, by translating a 2D concept into a 3D character. www.polyjunky.com

Hashem Alshaer Hashem is a VFX supervisor at 3Q.ae and a partner and instructor at cmivfx. He has more than 14 years’ experience working as a VFX/ CG supervisor. Turn to page 66 to learn how to simulate the destruction of a building using Realflow and Fumefx. www.cmivfx.com

Alex York Alex is founder and director of Atelier York, a London-based architectural and design visualisation studio, with over 10 years’ experience in the industry. Turn to page 52 to discover how Coroner Renderer helped Alex in his latest arch-viz project. www.atelieryork.co.uk

Josh Parks Josh is a compositor at MPC as well as a parttime lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire. On page 90 Josh continues his tutorial series for V-ray for Nuke – this month he focuses on speeding up your workflow with Position pass. www.joshparks.co.uk