R James Healy

Visual Effects Artist
R James Healy is a VFX artist who has worked on extensively in the film and advertising industry.
Recognition
Consciousness. A Performance Lecture by Marcus du Sautoy (BBC) With Music by James Holden (2013)
Marcus Du Sautoy is a Mathematician, Oxford University Professor and BBC presenter. ‘Consciousness’ is part of a
series of audiovisual performance lectures. The acclaimed British musician, James Holden, produced the
audio elements of this show, which closes with a fifteen-minute live band performance.
Healy developed visual sequences to be performed live during the finale. The sequences are based on entoptic imagery
(images created anywhere between the surface of the eye ball and the brain) To date the piece has been performed at
London’s Barbican centre (Europe’s largest performance theatre) and the Latitude Festival.
Radar Festival 2007, Overall Festival Winner.
The Radar Festival was setup in partnership with Apple and leading independent UK record labels, Warp, Domino and
Tummy Touch. It has since become a video commissioning company. R James Healy's video for Clark (Warp Records) was the
overall festival winner. The piece went on to be screened internationally at over 21 festivals.
Warp Records Animation Competition Finalist, 2001.
In 2001 Warp records held an open brief competition to animate a track from the forth-coming Squarepusher album,
Go Plastic. Five finalists were chosen and their videos were hosted on the Warp Records web site (a novelty at the
time!) The films were also screened at Warp events and various festivals.
Visual Artist
What It Is Project Space, Chicago, USA. Artist In Residence (2011)
A, “roving exhibition space”, and occasional project space, What It Is was founded by Tom Burtonwood and Holly
Holmes. Burtonwood and Holmes have since co developed Chicago’s first 3D printing store The 3D Printer Experience. During Healy's three-month artist residency he
created a 3D zoetrope (part of an ongoing personal project) The post culminated in a show, receiving
positive coverage in the local press.
Teaching
National Centre of Computer Animation. Bournemouth University. Lecturer (Nov’ 2001 to June 2002) at the NCCA Healy taught various aspects of 3D Visual Effects software Autodesk Maya and MEL scripting.
Education
1998: National Centre For Computer Animation. Bournemouth University
Ba (Hons) Computer Animation & Visualisation
1995: Huddersfield Technical College
National Diploma in General Art & Design

 
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