IAN M WILMOTH CGI + AI

Comprehensive 3D VFX generalist, AI Director, and Compositor for feature films, experiential, B2B, advertising, streaming, broadcast, interactive, and more.


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 AI Generated Video Directing • Editing • Color • VFX • 3D Integration • Compositing - Pro Since 2023

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3D Generalist • Animation • VFX • CFX • Modeling • Lookdev • Lighting • Compositing • Post - 30 Years Pro Exp

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Ian M Wilmoth — What I Do
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What I Do

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AI Video Direction

End-to-end creative direction of AI-generated video — from prompt and reference through final edit, color, and composite. I speak both the creative and the technical.

II.

3D & VFX Integration

Seamlessly combining AI video with traditional 3D CGI and live action. Lighting, animation, CFX, modeling, and compositing — all under one roof.

III.

Workflow Consulting

I design and implement AI video production pipelines for studios and brands. If your team is figuring out how to work with AI video seriously, I can get you there faster.

IV.

Concept to Delivery

Starting from a brief, a reference board, or existing design frames — I take projects all the way through to final deliverable, managing every technical decision along the way.

V.

Color & Finishing

Professional color grading and finishing for AI and hybrid productions. Decades of experience knowing what a finished frame should look like.

VI.

Technical Direction

Acting as technical consultant on productions that need someone who can bridge the gap between creative vision and AI toolchain — without losing either.

Ian M Wilmoth — About
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About

30 Years in Production
150+ Projects Delivered
2023 AI Professional Since
Professional Summary

AI Director, Editor, and Compositor with 30 years as a 3D/VFX Generalist. Traditionally skilled artist. RISD film and animation graduate specializing in high production-value content across commercials, experiential, music videos, episodic TV, prestige streaming, B2B, feature films, and AAA games. Complete 3D and VFX generalist across modeling, rigging, animation, CFX, dynamics, look dev, lighting, rendering, and compositing — with specialized skills in on-set VFX supervision, color grading, previs/postvis, virtual production, photoreal integration, Toon Shading / nonphotorealistic rendering, and mocap cleanup. Proven leadership as CG Supervisor.

AI Filmmaking — 2023 to Present

Embraced generative AI since 2023 for video and stills production, including hybrid VFX integration. I use AI in preproduction for concept design, style exploration, and pitch decks. Professional commercial AI video directing experience for leading brands.

Current AI Toolset Nano Banana · Flux · Veo · Kling · Luma · Sora · Pixverse · Midjourney · Stable Diffusion
Traditional 3D / VFX — 1994 to Present

30-year career as a comprehensive 3D/VFX Generalist. Works across multiple roles to minimize artist handoffs — modeling, rigging, animation, CFX, dynamics, look dev, lighting, compositing, camera tracking, rotoscoping, color grading, and on-set VFX supervision.

Core Software Cinema 4D · Maya · ZBrush · Nuke · After Effects · PFtrack · Redshift · Vray · Arnold · Unreal Engine
Television

Futurama (Hulu, 2022)
Disenchantment (Netflix, 2022)
Beauty and the Beast 30th Anniversary (ABC/Disney+)
The Spiderwick Chronicles (Roku, 2024)
Ice Road Truckers, Deadliest Catch, Axe Men (Discovery)

Feature Film

Waiting for Superman (2010) — Sundance Audience Award, Critics' Choice, AFI
Two Gates of Sleep (2014) — Cannes, Berlin Film Festival
From The Sky Down — U2 / Guggenheim (2011)
Last Play at Shea — Billy Joel / Alec Baldwin (2009)
Strays — Will Farrell / Jamie Foxx (2023)

Music Video

Bag Raiders "Shooting Star" — 130M+ YouTube views (viral meme)
MGMT "Kids" — 145M+ views
Beyoncé "Girls (Run the World)" — Billboard Music Awards
Devendra Banhart feat. RZA / Wu-Tang
LCD Soundsystem · Flogging Molly · Babyshambles · Tally Hall

Gaming

Turbine / WB Games Boston
Valve Corporation
MicroProse
Microsoft
Promotional: Sony · Capcom · CCP Games

Technology

Apple · Microsoft · Intel · IBM · Dell · HP · Nokia · Motorola · Sony · Hexagon Robotics

Automotive

Honda · Chrysler · Aston Martin F1 · Paretta Racing IndyCar

Consumer & Healthcare

P&G (Crest/Scope) · Nestea · Pfizer · Sprite · Nike · Ryobi · UHC · Nationwide

Entertainment

Disney · ABC · Hulu · Netflix · MTV · History Channel · Mattel

Notable Experiential & Installation

Harry Potter: Forbidden Forest Experience — worldwide tour, millions of guests
Sony Times Square video billboard — 8K resolution
Children's Hospital Atlanta — 30-ft interactive video wall (Unreal Engine)

 

Burns & McDonnell — 360° video cave (12K resolution)
IAC Center — 120-ft video wall (20K resolution, world's largest at the time)
Beyoncé "Girls (Run The World)" — Billboard Music Awards performance, millions of live viewers

Education Rhode Island School of Design

BA, Film / Animation / Video — 1994–1998
First-ever 3D CGI animated degree project at RISD

Maryland Institute College of Art

Film photography, cel animation, life drawing, oil painting — 1992–1994

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