Thom Wickes
@thwix.bsky.social
VES Award winning mediocre VFX Artist. Proud father to 4 horrible dogs.
Lead VFX Artist (Houdini/Unreal/MS Paint). Former Disney, Dreamworks, Ready at Dawn (RIP).
Warwickshire, UK.
Lead VFX Artist (Houdini/Unreal/MS Paint). Former Disney, Dreamworks, Ready at Dawn (RIP).
Warwickshire, UK.
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New York Fucking City. A full mile of people filled to the brim. Fascism is going to lose.
April 5, 2025 at 7:12 PM
New York Fucking City. A full mile of people filled to the brim. Fascism is going to lose.
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Look how freaking easy it is not to fold your morals like a dollar bill
No, the Democratic Party isn't losing because it's Too Woke:
April 3, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Look how freaking easy it is not to fold your morals like a dollar bill
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Currently really enjoying Fiasco: The Battle for Boston. Telling the story of the desegragation of Boston schools through a modern lens. The series on the AIDS crisis was pretty spectacular too.
Fiasco
Check out this great listen on Audible.com. The story of the movement to desegregate Boston’s public schools through busing—and the backlash that followed. In 1974, a federal judge ruled that Boston’s...
www.audible.com
March 13, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Currently really enjoying Fiasco: The Battle for Boston. Telling the story of the desegragation of Boston schools through a modern lens. The series on the AIDS crisis was pretty spectacular too.
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lol holy shit i'm reading the wiki for Bedtime for Bonzo (1951) starring Ronald Reagan and look how close a chimp came to altering the history of the entire goddamn planet
March 13, 2025 at 6:33 AM
lol holy shit i'm reading the wiki for Bedtime for Bonzo (1951) starring Ronald Reagan and look how close a chimp came to altering the history of the entire goddamn planet
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every example of how AI could be useful is like “if you were eating cereal, AI could tell you what cereal you were eating”
January 26, 2025 at 12:26 AM
every example of how AI could be useful is like “if you were eating cereal, AI could tell you what cereal you were eating”
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how old were you when you first realized that toast is just toasted bread? i was 37
January 22, 2025 at 3:19 AM
how old were you when you first realized that toast is just toasted bread? i was 37
I tried to make a tweet (skeet?) thread about camera friendly particle rotations in Niagara. I gave up trying to get gifs to work, so made an art station blog post instead.
Hope someone finds it useful!
#vfx #realtimevfx #unreal #niagara #gamedev
Hope someone finds it useful!
#vfx #realtimevfx #unreal #niagara #gamedev
ArtStation - Niagara: Camera friendly sprite rotations
www.artstation.com
November 30, 2024 at 1:31 PM
I tried to make a tweet (skeet?) thread about camera friendly particle rotations in Niagara. I gave up trying to get gifs to work, so made an art station blog post instead.
Hope someone finds it useful!
#vfx #realtimevfx #unreal #niagara #gamedev
Hope someone finds it useful!
#vfx #realtimevfx #unreal #niagara #gamedev
Ok. I'm going to start doing some VFXy posts
November 30, 2024 at 12:20 PM
Ok. I'm going to start doing some VFXy posts
Obligatory film demo reel share - work predominantly completed in Houdini.
(Working in Unreal/Houdini and living in England now)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWOV...
(Working in Unreal/Houdini and living in England now)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWOV...
Thom Wickes - Demo Reel, Fall 2023
YouTube video by thomwickes
www.youtube.com
October 22, 2024 at 11:27 AM
Obligatory film demo reel share - work predominantly completed in Houdini.
(Working in Unreal/Houdini and living in England now)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWOV...
(Working in Unreal/Houdini and living in England now)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWOV...