Join Allan for a special 2-hour on Friday night.
Allan has worked in Visual Effects for over 20 years. Originally from Australia, his main work is now as a VFX Supervisor and FX Technical Director in Los Angeles.
He’s worked with directors Michael Bay, Tim Miller, Roland Emmerich, Robert Zemeckis, M Night Shamayalan, Brian Singer and studios such as Industrial Light + Magic (ILM), Blur Studio, Prime Focus, Catastrophic FX, Atomic Fiction, Pixomondo, and lots of others. Some of the more recent projects he’s worked on include Transformers 3, The Equalizer, Star Trek Into Darkness, Flight, Superman, Metallica, 2012, The Last Airbender, Daybreakers, and many others.. Projects he has worked on have earned Emmys, Oscars, VES awards, and ProMax. He is particularly proud of being awarded Autodesk Master in 2007.
Game projects include Call of Duty, Halo, Prototype, Team Fortress 2, Destiny, Bioshock, and lots of others. Though he’s not a huge gamer, but he’s loved getting to work on these titles.
He started building tutorials, training content, writing for magazines like 3D World and others in the 90s. He’s been published in many books, and for over the past decade he’s been speaking all over the world at various big conferences like SIGGRAPH, Autodesk University and various others, as well as collaborating with Autodesk on a lot of projects.
He enjoys training with studios, as it’s a chance to meet new teams and work with them for a few days or weeks on various problems or areas they want to learn more about, and help them grow their skill-sets within their team. He’s done intense training sessions, talks etc. at ILM, Ubisoft, Activision, Frantic Films, Prime Focus, Remedy Games and many others.
He recently launched the Allan McKay Podcast which is ranked in the top 100 on “What’s Hot” section of iTunes.
He is also proud of his Technical Director Mentorship, which started last year. He works closely with a select number of people over the span of a year, doing live sessions, reviews, webinars, and delivering the latest training every 2-3 weeks (there’s now over 700+ hours of video training in the membership vault and growing).