Showreel from the Blizzard Pipeline

Ren Kikuchi is an FX artist and has compiled work from his time in the Blizzard Entertainment Cinematics Department from 2008 to 2014 in a reel.
A gloved hand resting on snow with a blue glow

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His work was created with Houdini, Max and Maya together with Realflow, Naiad and Renderman. The FX precomps were realised in Nuke.

Ren Kikuchi FX Show Reel 2014 from Ren Kikuchi on Vimeo.

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