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Cici Zheng

VFX Artist

I am a VFX artist, focuses on creating stylized animated effects thorugh the use of technical procedural workflow.I love challenges and problem-solving, and I am exciting to join a team of passinate artist to create magic on screen for the future generations.

Skill Summary

Dynamic Simulation/Effects

  • Ability to use Pyro, Particles, Flip fluids, Rigid Body Dynamix, Vellum, MPM and other procedural effects.

  • Experienced with Bifrost, Kuakatowa, and Particle in Maya.

  • Experience in both Niagara and Houdini for Unreal Engine projects.

Effects Integration, rendering and Compositing

  • Ability to light, texture, and integrate realistic effects into live action sequences.

  • Using customised shaders and manipulating timing to create various stylised effects.

  • Experience rendering in Karma, Redshift, Vray, and Arnold.

Procedural Modelling, Environment building and Lookdev

  • Efficient in building assets procedurally and turning them into user-friendly tools on demand.

  • Proficient in building and look-develop scalable environments using Houdini Highfields.

Collaboration and Flexibility

  • Driven and passionate in work environments, determined when facing challenges.

  • Unafraid to share feedback in group discussions and able to take in advice and apply notes quickly.

  • Able to pick up new software quickly and apply it to new pipelines, and always eager to learn and grow.

Software

Houdini

  • Dynamic Simulation

  • Karma / Solaris

  • Copernicus 

  • Vex Scripting

  • HDA/Tool Building

Maya​​

  • Krakatoa

  • Phoenix FD

Unreal

  • Niagra

Rendering

  • Karma

  • Vray

  • Arnold

  • Redshift

Compositing & Editing

  • Nuke

  • Davinci Resolve

  • Adobe Creative Suite

Education

Gnomon School of Visual Effects, Games & Animation

North Hollywood, CA, USA

BFA in Digital Production

June 2025


Academy of Interactive Entertainment

Ultimo, NSW, Australia + Online distance study

3D Animation Foundations - CUA20220Oct 2021

Award/Recognition

Gnomon Best of term 
- Winder 2025 
Animation and Scene

The Gnomon Scholarship Award

for Artistic Excellence 2022

Contact Me

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