BlueBolt’s VFX for Nosferatu and Napoleon | Bluebolt | FMX HIVE 2025
110An overview of the process of creating effects that embody and enhance a strong directorial vision in long form narratives. It will aim to give an insight into how Houdini can be integrated seamlessly with performance, and practical elements and to investigate how to use FX tools as a storytelling element to amplify the mood of a shot.
Dave Cook is a highly experienced, award-winning senior 3D artist and CG Supervisor with feature film and episodic credits including Robert Egger’s Nosferatu, Star Wars: The Last Jedi and The Last Kingdom (Netflix). Dave joined BlueBolt in 2021 as CG Supervisor on Amazon sci-fi series The Peripheral. Since then his credits have included The Great season 3, two seasons of The Last Kingdom including the feature-length finale Seven Kings Must Die and most recently Robert Eggers Nosferatu for which he received a VES Award nomination. Prior to joining BlueBolt Dave spent a year at Milk as CG Supervisor on BAFTA nominated sci-fi series Intergalactic (Sky) and five years at Jellyfish as Head of 3D where his credits include Solo: A Star Wars Story, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Black Mirror - Hated in the Nation, Alive at the Natural History Museum with David Attenborough and My Inner Fish for which he won an Emmy award. Dave studied at the Slade School of Fine Art in London and began his career in 2D traditional drawn animation in the 1990s, when his early forays into computer animation were on the Amiga. Dave has also spent time lecturing on VFX and animation at Escape Studios, Sae/Quant and the American Intercontinental University