Yasin Hasanian | VFX Supervisor and Photographer

Yasin Hasanian

VFX Supervisor | Photographer

Vancouver, Canada

Yasin was born in Iran and quickly fell in love with art since he was a kid. Growing up he followed his passion and became self-taught in computer graphics and photography during his teenage years and later got his masters degree in computer engineering. As an art and science enthusiast, he has been working in the film and animation industry for numerous clients around the world, most notably he was the VFX Supervisor on La Noria short film. He’s also worked on blockbusters like Stranger Things, Captain America, Black Widow and Fantastic Beasts to name a few. Currently he is living in Canada.

- VFX & CG Supervision
- Creative Photography
- Specialized in pipeline development, look development, lighting, compositing, tools programming and hair grooming
- Experienced in sculpting and modeling
- Character art for both film and game
- Always self motivated and eager to take on new challenges

Skills

Software proficiency

Maya

Houdini

Nuke

Mari

ZBrush

Substance 3D Painter

Arnold

RenderMan

Shotgun

Python

Matlab

C++

Redshift

Photoshop

Mudbox

Productions

- Movie
  Blue Beetle
- Year
  2023
- Role
  Lighting Lead | Lighting/Rendering Research & Development
- Company
  Digital Domain
- Video Game
  Stranger Things 4
- Year
  2022
- Role
  Lighting/Rendering Research & Development | Lighting
- Company
  Digital Domain
- Movie
  Fantastic Beasts 3
- Year
  2022
- Role
  Lighting/Rendering Research & Development | Lighting Lead
- Company
  Digital Domain
- Movie
  Morbius
- Year
  2021
- Role
  Lighting/Rendering Research & Development
- Company
  Digital Domain
- Movie
  Black Widow
- Year
  2020
- Role
  Lighting/Rendering Research & Development
- Company
  Digital Domain
- Movie
  La Noria
- Year
  2019
- Role
  VFX Supervisor
- Company
  NightWheel Pictures
- Movie
  Children of the Corn
- Year
  2021
- Role
  Lighting/Rendering Research & Development
- Company
  Digital Domain
- TV Production
  The Twilight Zone
- Year
  2020
- Role
  VFX Artist
- Company
  Digital Domain

Experience

Lighting/Rendering Research & Development | Lighting Lead at Digital Domain
Vancouver, Canada
August 2019 - Present
VFX Supervisor at NightWheel Pictures
October 2012 - January 2019
The film is currently in festivals. Head to the website for more info.

https://www.lanoriafilm.com/

• Assisting production team to manage a team of about 200 artists world-wide

• Working closely with director to establish the creatives and technical aspects

• Assisting with development of cloud-based distributed pipeline covering many areas of production

• Devising the entire lighting and part of compositing pipeline including core tools implementation

• Look development (texturing and shading) of large amount of assets including hero ones

• Shot lighting and compositing

• Developing assembly and simulation tools

• All hair grooms

• Helping production team with project management needs

• Creating promotional and marketing materials

• Writing up thorough documentations for most of departments and mentoring artists
Freelance CG Artist at Various companies
February 2006 - Present
Freelance CG artist working remotely for multiple clients around the world such as Blockhead VFX, Imagine Publishing, Animation Mentor, Santa Transmedia, etc.

• Look Development (shading/texturing)

• Lighting and Compositing

• Hair Grooming TD

• Character Artist

• Making Game-ready assets including characters and props

• Cover Art creation