About Luminetik

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Kevin Cahill is a Temple University Architecture 5-year program graduate with strong modern aesthetics in design, creating beautiful lines and structures. As a Senior VFX Artist, he uses his background in architecture for his work in VFX for television and the motion picture industry. Kevin is an Unreal Engine pro, building worlds for film and television development. He created the iconic fire in the logo for the “Hunger Games” movie franchise. Kevin has worked on multiple TV series, including HBO's "Westworld," ”The Mist,” CW’s “The Flash,” CW’s “Supergirl,” and BRON's upcoming "Fables." He created iconic VFX effects for the last few episodes of the CW’s ”The Vampire Diaries,” did VFX work for movies such as “Battleship,” “Total Recall,” and ”Skyline,” and created VFX effects on the video game cinematic for the critically-acclaimed “Destiny” for Bungie. Kevin worked with Warner Bros. on the Pepfar animated shorts “Georgy,” “Lady D,” ”Lefty,” “Sean,” “Judy M.D.: Super Surgeon,” and a philanthropical project for AIDS prevention in Kenya. Kevin did VFX and design work for new and aspiring indie filmmakers on such projects as “Nanuq,” "The Sun Devil and the Princess,” and Luminetik’s animated short “Kuriocity.” Kevin is an Executive Producer/Creative Director at Luminetik Studios, working with other artists to create strong visual concepts with clean strong lines and structure to illustrate the vision of writers and creatives. He teaches virtual production techniques in Unreal Engine. Kevin ‘s arsenal of tools in the pipeline includes Maya,3DS Max, Houdini, Renderman, V-Ray, Fume FX, Real Flow, Omniverse and Unreal Engine, and the Omniverse. 

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Eric Durst is an iconic VFX Producer/Supervisor winning an Emmy for Apple TV’s “Five Days at Memorial”. He has a strong background working with Directors and Showrunners to deliver the top quality VFX on some of the most iconic TV series, including HBO’s “Perry Mason,” Netflix’s “Messiah,” CBS’s hit drama “Seal Team,” CW’s “All American,” Ridley Scott’s series “The Terror,” and he was nominated for an Emmy for his work in “Genius” S1. He was VFX Supervisor on many box office successful films, including “Snowpiercer” from Oscar-winner Bong Joon Ho, “Ghost Rider,” Tom Cruise starrer “Knight & Day,” “Gods of Egypt,” “Knowing,” “The Last Mimzy,” “Syriana” starring George Clooney, “North Country,” “Nights of Rodanthe,” “City of Ember,” “Spiderman 2,” “Torque,” and “End of Days,” starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. He VFX upped the effects on “Batman & Robin” and “Batman Forever.” Eric is currently working in Toronto on the Carlton Cuse/John Ridley project, “Five Days at Memorial,” starring Vera Farmiga, and is on board for a new Robert Rodriguez’s movie. Eric has been a speaker at SIGGRAPH and in the press with multiple magazines about his expertise in VFX . https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0244397.

Akiko Ashley is a Producer/Writer and Entertainment Executive at Luminetik Studios. She started her career working in the video game industry​ as an executive​ in Japan and the US, and later ​became a record industry executive in NYC. She has been a writer &​ and acting editor for many magazines for over 20 years in the field of entertainment, technology, and design writing and consulting for Film Festival Today, Post Magazine, and Architosh. She served on the Board of HDRI 3D & Keyframe for several years. ​Akiko has a large social media following and 100,000 readership in magazines. ​At Luminetik, Akiko designed the creative pipeline for the company​ with IBM, Apple, and AMD​, ​and ​built relationships with agents to work on commercials and technical animation​s​ & VFX for movies. She has built liaisons with companies like Apple, AMD, IBM, Autodesk, Side Effects and NVIDIA, who sponsored some of Luminetik’s projects. Akiko was a VFX Producer on “Two Weeks Notice” and “National Geographic” Snake Wrangler and VFX Producer on Super Bowl “Arm & Hammer” commercials.  Akiko helped sponsor the first DVD Expo in NYC. It is under her leadership at Luminetik Productions they completed the CGI short film, “Kuriocity”  using private debit financial investment. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0039010/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0