Nick Deboar
Freelance Director, Houdini FX Artist, 3D Artist, Motion Design at Nick Deboar
Adelaide, South Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Deboar is a freelance director and Houdini FX/3D artist based in Adelaide with nine years of professional experience delivering commercial production, photorealistic product renders, and complex simulations. He has led look development and lighting teams at major studios and contributed to high-profile projects including Game of Thrones S6, X-Men: Apocalypse, The Great Gatsby, and concert visuals for artists like Taylor Swift and Billie Eilish. Equally at home in creative direction and technical pipeline work, Nick has built shaders, custom lights, and exporters across RenderMan, Arnold and Nuke workflows. His clients range from global brands like Adidas and Beats by Dre to boutique agencies, reflecting a blend of cinematic scale and commercial precision. As an instructor and former workshop trainer, he pairs production leadership with a knack for teaching complex tools and techniques. An often-overlooked strength is his history of stepping into mid-production leadership gaps and rapidly stabilizing pipelines to meet tight delivery schedules.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Shake 101, Digital Media Managment, Shake 101, Digital Media Managment at Australian Film, Television and Radio schoolBA, MultiMedia, BA, MultiMedia at University of South Australia
Github Skills (23)
houdini6
viewer6
procedural5
quicktime5
png5
facebook5
nuke5
foundry4
player4
jpeg4
playback4
tga4
adobe3
openexr3
javascript3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ndeboar/houdiniOtls
Jan 2018 - Sep 2019
Contributions:27 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
ndeboar/Ecosystem
Feb 2018 - Dec 2019
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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