Visual Effects Artist

Markus Clipper

FX & Creature FX Technical Director

New York, NY
Commercials & Episodics

Experience

Studios and companies I've had the privilege to work with.

Image Engine

FX Technical Director
2026 - Current

Create FX elements for high-end episodic work.

Framestore

FX & Creature FX TD
2023 - 2026

Created FX elements for high-end commercial work across New York, LA, and Chicago teams.

RE:ANIME

FX TD
2021 - 2023

Developed and implemented hero FX elements for acclaimed short films including Wild Hearts, Madara vs Might Guy, and 7 Deadly Sins.

VCU ICA

FX Artist
2021 - 2022

Led CG development for an in-person art installation integrating motion capture and procedural FX.

Work

Scripts

VEX

Commonly used VEX snippets for Houdini workflows.

Combine Paint Masks

Combines multiple paint mask inputs and clamps the result to create a unified mask output. 

string attr = chs("attribute");
float nAll = 0.0;
for (int n = 0; n < 4; n++) {
    nAll += point(n, attr, @ptnum);
}
float result = clamp(nAll, 0, 1);
setpointattrib(0, attr, @ptnum, result);
@Cd = result;

PYTHON

Python scripts for Houdini workflows and utilities.

Display Cache Size

Used on a custom file cache to find the size on disk of the current cache. 

def getCacheSize(node):
    n = hou.node(".");
    cachedir = n.parm("cachedir").eval()
    version = n.parm("readversion").eval() + "/"
    cachedirVersion = os.path.join(cachedir,version)
    cacheSize = 0.0
    
    for dirpath, dirnames, filenames in os.walk(cachedirVersion):
        for f in filenames:
            fp = os.path.join(dirpath, f)
            # skip if it is symbolic link
            if not os.path.islink(fp):
                cacheSize += os.path.getsize(fp)
                
    cacheSize /= 1e9
    cacheSize = round(cacheSize, 1)
    
    n.parm('descriptivelabel').set(str(cacheSize) + " GB")

About Me

Markus Clipper

Hello, I'm Markus

I am an FX & Creature FX Technical Director with over 4 years of experience in creating effects for commercials and episodic television.

markuslclipper@gmail.com

Resume

View or download my complete resume below.