Chris Turner is currently working at Brahma AI

I’m a visual technologist with a background in high-end VFX and a growing focus on tools and workflows for machine learning.

Over the past decade, I’ve worked in compositing at Industrial Light & Magic and Union Visual Effects, before becoming technical lead for the compositing department at Brahma AI (formerly Metaphysic). My work there includes developing and improving image and facial augmentation pipelines, as well as building tools and workflows for animation and, more recently, audio.

My work combines compositing and Houdini-based 3D with scripting, automation and pipeline development. I’m particularly interested in using visualisation to make complex technical systems easier to inspect and understand. For me, visualisation is more than a way to explain something; it can be a practical tool for understanding how a system behaves, investigating bugs and identifying what needs to change.

This has proved especially valuable in my development work at Brahma, where visualising complex processes has helped me investigate technical problems, stabilise pipelines and better understand ML systems whose internal states and parameters can otherwise be difficult to reason about.

I enjoy building tools that make technical processes easier to inspect, debug and use creatively. I’m keen to develop this further through work in creative technology, ML visualisation and tools that help people explore and understand complex systems.

You can view my personal CG art and design over at AEN, VFX showreel on Vimeo, technical posts on my blog and employment on LinkedIn.

Represented by Film Supply for image licencing - licensing@filmsupplycom.

christopherbenturner@gmail.com