RING OF FIRE ADDS VETERAN CGI/VFX SUPE
For the project, Smiczek oversaw a large team of animators while supervising the VFX portion of the film. The film required the team to create naturalistic and magical effects, as wells as crowds of CGI rats and humans.
Prior to his work with Framestore, Smiczek worked at several other well known visual effects companies in the US and New Zealand, including Rhythm & Hues, Weta Digital and Asylum Visual Effects. He is a veteran Massive expert for creating crowd scenes and has contributed to numerous commercials and feature films, including Lord of The Rings: The Two Towers, X-Men X2, The Fast and The Furious : Tokyo Drift, and The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.
His commercial work includes VFX-driven spots for Nike and Propel.