Austin Heald

Austin Heald has a diverse work experience in the gaming industry. Austin started their career at Adventure Works in 2016 as a VFX Artist, where they worked on designing and implementing VFX for the Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run attraction in Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge at Disneyland Park. Austin also acted as a technical artist, creating advanced materials and tools, and simulated destruction assets for the environment and vehicles. In 2019, Austin joined Blind Squirrel Games as a Senior VFX Artist, where they created visually cohesive VFX for an undisclosed third-person shooter. Austin also revitalized the VFX pipeline to secure additional funding and provided technical artist support to solve complex problems. Austin was later promoted to Lead Technical Artist in 2020.

Austin Heald attended Gnomon from 2013 to 2016, where they obtained a certificate in Entertainment Design and Digital Production with a focus on Real Time VFX.