Robert Williams · Los Angeles

VFX artist.
Agentic pipelines.

I make AI agents do real VFX work — Nuke, Houdini, Unreal, and ComfyUI, wired into production.

Lead Visdev Artist at Framestore. Fourteen years in visual effects.

About

Compositing first. Then everything else.

I came up as a Nuke compositor — features, episodic, and commercials — and moved through real-time and generative pipelines into visdev: the department where new ways of making pictures get proven on real jobs.

Today I build tools and autonomous workflows for agents, across DCCs and departments, that expand what a single artist can deliver. Shots go from previs to comp-ready elements with an agent coordinating every application in the chain — on real commercial work, not demos.

Open source

vfx-agent-toolkit

The tooling behind that workflow, open-sourced: Claude Code plugins and MCP connectors for VFX production.

github.com/sideshowroberto/vfx-agent-toolkit

Skills teach the agent the craft; connectors give it hands in the running applications. Ten plugins covering Nuke, Houdini, Unreal, Blender, ComfyUI, Maya, and generative services, with one-clone connector installs.

MIT licensed70+ skills7 app connectors
Selected credits

Screen work

Spider-Man: No Way HomeVisualization Artist · Digital Domain · 2021
Star Wars: The Force AwakensDigital Compositor · 2015
Black Panther: Wakanda ForeverPostvis Artist · Digital Domain · 2022
One PieceCompositor · Framestore · 2023
Black PantherVisual Effects Artist · 2018
Boss LevelDigital Compositor · 2020
The Flash / Supergirl / SEAL TeamDigital Compositor · 2014–2019

Thirty-four visual effects credits — full list on IMDB. Current commercial and brand work at Framestore visdev.

Contact

Get in touch

Tool questions and bug reports belong on the toolkit repo. For everything else, LinkedIn is the front door.