Cristian Hinz Welkens had his early start in Motion Graphics, working at PES Lab in Buenos Aires as a self-taught 3D Generalist. It was during this time that Cristian taught himself how to simulate cloth and hair. Always having a passion for effects simulation, film was the clear next step.

Cristian was hired by MPC London as a Creature FX TD working on Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 and The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Six months later Cristian would be occupying a Lead position as Lead Creature FX TD on Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.

Cristian spent the next four years at MPC London, working on movies such as Man Of Steel, Maleficent, World War Z, X-Men, and others. During this time, he developed many tools and workflows for the Creature FX Department (TechAnim), built cloth and hair rigs, and lead teams of artists.

After leaving MPC London, Cristian was hired by Prime Focus London to create their Cloth Department. During this time he developed the pipeline to allow the simulation of hero and crowd assets. These tools were used on Hercules and Kingsman: The Secret Service.

When Prime Focus London closed its doors Cristian went back to MPC London to work on The Jungle Book, where he integrated Houdini Engine into MPC’s proprietary hair pipeline, and developed procedural hair styling and shading systems that allowed hair interaction with fluids, objects, etc. He also developed plugins to model and simulate foliage such as trees and grass.

He then moved to Vancouver to work for Sony Imageworks, where he spent 3 years working on movies such as Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Hotel Transylvania 3, Smurfs: The Lost Village and Storks.

Cristian is currently at Blue Sky Studios in NY, working on animated feature Spies in Disguise.