Himanshu Solanki
Senior FX TD at DNEG
Kuala Lumpur, India
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Top SchoolHimanshu Solanki is a Senior FX Technical Director with eight years of film and VFX experience, currently based in Kuala Lumpur and working at DNEG. He specializes in Houdini-driven FX with a grounding in lighting and look development, contributing to high-profile projects like Thor: Love and Thunder and large-scale water and destruction sims. His background spans both pipeline and hands-on simulation roles at studios including The Mill, Base FX, Method Studios, and VHQ, reflecting versatility across on-set-quality effects and production tooling. An early web and graphics background gives him an edge in pipeline thinking and automation, and he maintains a public Github (lightReachers) as a compact hub for his FX tooling and experiments. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who bridges artistic vision with technical rigor to deliver predictable, film-ready sims.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Senior School Certificate, Mathematics, B +, Senior School Certificate, Mathematics, B + at Albert E Senior Secondary School KotaAssociate Diploma in Animation and VFX (AAIP), Visual Effects & Film, Associate Diploma in Animation and VFX (AAIP), Visual Effects & Film at Arena Animation Aptech IndiaBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) 4 semester only, Metallurgical Engineering, Left in 3rd year, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) 4 semester only, Metallurgical Engineering, Left in 3rd year at Malaviya National Institute of Technology
Hindi, EnglishGithub contributions (5)
lightReachers/HS_vexStash
Jan 2021 - Feb 2023
Contributions:8 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
lightReachers/PyQt5_learning
Apr 2020 - Mar 2023
Contributions:13 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 11 months
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