Chris testing pipelines at an early age.

Chris Gardner

Senior 3D Animator and compositor
Research and Development Guru

Chris Gardner has a very well balanced left and right brain. He has a flair for character animation timing, and his ability to accurately model objects in the 3D world is another of his strengths. He manages to be creative while at the same time have great coding and R&D skills.

This is one of the reasons that within the stables of Fire Horse Studio that Chris is refered to as the "Mega Brain"

Chris has been creating custom tools while working at Fire Horse Studio for various projects that have enabled client requests to be implemented with a minimum of fuss and a sliver of time for revisions.

He has also created an in house rendering management system known as fuRender - a network rendering tool that allows Fire Horse Studio to handle massive rendering tasks with ease.

Chris has an honours degree in Design and has also studied at the Australian Film, Television and Radio school. In addition, he has taught design topics at the University of Western Sydney.

Chris has created a number of short films utilising standard 3D animation tools and has also created an entire short film project utilising Flash technology. He has completed film production courses and has a great overview of the entire process from many years of experimentation and production experience.