Hi, I'm Salauddin Kazi, and people know me as SALLU and I'm a Visual Effects Artist.

My passion to work in the film industry has led me into this spectacular world of visual effects. I have 4 years of experience in Lighting, Crowd Simulations, Compositing, Scripting and CG pipeline design implementation. During this term I have worked as Lighting TD, Crowd (Massive) TD, Pipeline TD, Generalist TD and Compositor.

Currently I'm working at Animal Logic, as a Crowd TD in the vfx department. I'm involved in creating crowds using massive software.

I completed my Diploma with honors in Visual Effects from VanArts (Vancouver Institute of Media Arts) and Certificate in Visual Effects and Digital Animation from The Art Institute of Vancouver-Burnaby. Also I hold a Bachelors degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering.

Skills:
Lighting and Shading
Crowd Simulations
Compositing
Scripting

Software:
Maya, Massive, Renderman, 3Delight.
Shake (Apple Certified Shake User), Nuke.
Python, Mel, TCL/Tk, C++, Shell Scripting.
Linux, Mac OSX, Windows

Check out my showreel or drop me a line.

- SALLU