Melbourne, VIC
AI & Automation Specialist / Creative Technologist
VFX on Spider-Man and Captain Marvel. I build AI pipelines, automation systems, and digital products that turn complex workflows into reliable, usable systems.
Selected Work
AI pipelines, VFX tools, web applications, game development, data analysis, and hardware integration. The useful work is usually in the workflow around the tool: structured inputs, review points, reusable outputs, and fewer manual steps between idea and result.
Featured Project
Featured Project
A process-discovery and AI-adoption planning tool that turns messy workflow descriptions into structured JSON, visual process maps, friction/risk overlays, and ranked intervention plans with retained human review points.
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Featured Project
Featured Project
Pawkraft Co. is a live custom pet figurine business built around an AI-assisted production workflow. Customers upload pet photos, and the system moves those inputs through order intake, asset generation, review, paint palette creation, kit artwork, and production handoff.
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Featured Project
Featured Project
Nexus is a research workflow system for finding non-obvious relationships across large bodies of biomedical literature. Instead of manually scanning papers in isolation, it extracts entities, relationships, evidence trails, and candidate mechanisms into a searchable knowledge graph.
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Featured Project
Autonomous Machine is an agent-based simulation exploring how organisations can keep producing failure even when the people inside them are not trying to fail. It models how institutional systems filter reality, consume capacity, create bottlenecks, and repeat failure patterns.
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Featured Project
FetchMatch turns inconsistent rescue-dog listing prose into structured decision support for adopters. It extracts behavioural traits from PetRescue listings, converts them into a typed schema, and compares each dog against an adopter questionnaire using safety filters, location, lifestyle compatibility, and explainable match reasoning.
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Featured Project
Featured Project
PsychFX is an offline-first node compositor for experimental visual effects work. It came from a practical production problem: bouncing between separate tools for tracking, grading, generating certain 2D effects, and compositing. I built one artist-controlled workspace around reusable node graphs, real-time WGPU preview, and 85 manifest-backed WGSL nodes spanning effects, generators, masks, field drivers, depth/motion helpers, and compositing utilities.
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Independent game title
A solo independent Unreal Engine game project with a Houdini-driven production pipeline. The work secured government grant funding and led to a GDC 2020 SideFX guest talk on procedural Houdini-to-Unreal workflows.
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Marketplace UE5 destruction toolkit
A reusable Unreal Engine destruction toolkit built to reduce one-off setup work for breakable props and impact effects. It packages common destruction behaviours, material-specific responses, demo weapons, projectiles, and example content into a Marketplace asset other teams can adapt.
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URL-to-AR furniture placement
FurnitAR is a prototype for turning ordinary furniture product pages into AR-ready 3D assets. It takes messy web pages, extracts product information, cleans the source data, and routes it through image-to-3D generation experiments.
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Non-destructive AI photo editor
A non-destructive photo-editing prototype built around a practical constraint: keep the image editable instead of generating replacement pixels. The system lets AI suggest Lightroom-style slider changes from a prompt or reference image while the user keeps control of the final parameters.
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Real-time vintage photo filters
RetroCam turns a phone or browser camera into a small creative capture workflow: real-time vintage previews, camera switching, one-tap photos, hold-to-record video, and export without moving through a separate editing app.
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Browser whistle-to-MIDI converter
A fully client-side melody capture tool that turns whistled microphone input into editable MIDI. The hard part is a continuous-pitch note segmenter that distinguishes natural whistle wobble from intentional semitone movement.
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Heart rate to visual and audio art
An experimental live-data art pipeline that routes Polar H10 heart-rate data through Python signal processing, then broadcasts the resulting control stream over OSC into TouchDesigner visuals and Ableton sonification.
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UCE residual-conservation analysis
A genomics research workflow for testing whether unusual conserved DNA regions still look special after the obvious explanations are controlled for. The pipeline turns sequence collection, model scoring, confound checks, residual analysis, and visualization into a repeatable review process.
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Film Credits
FX artist at Method Studios, Luma Pictures, and Iloura on blockbuster productions.
Luma Pictures
Luma Pictures
Method Studios
Method Studios
Method Studios
Method Studios
Iloura
Method Studios
Method Studios
Toolkit
Tools I've used to ship, prototype, automate, or debug real systems. I move between AI, web, graphics, 3D, data, and production tools to solve problems creatively, carrying patterns across domains and turning new knowledge into working systems.
Model orchestration, generation workflows, inference APIs, and agentic coding tools.
Implementation languages, scripting layers, and shader dialects used across tools and pipelines.
Interfaces, storefronts, dashboards, and deployable product prototypes.
Storage, graphs, queues, and structured evidence pipelines for research and production systems.
Realtime rendering, camera/media pipelines, and computer-vision foundations.
Production tools for VFX, game assets, procedural geometry, and physical fabrication.
Everyday professional tools for planning, documentation, reporting, and delivery.
About
I like problems where creative judgement, technical systems, and messy real-world constraints all meet.
My work has moved through film VFX, game development, AI pipelines, web products, automation, 3D fabrication, and research tooling. The throughline is workflow design: taking something vague, complex, or manual and making it clear enough to build, test, and repeat.
Across projects like Pawkraft Co., Nexus Knowledge Graph, PsychFX Compositor, and Lucen, I've built systems that combine AI, computer vision, procedural tools, data pipelines, and human review to turn uncertain processes into working products.
I'm also comfortable making technical systems understandable to other people. I've presented Houdini-to-Unreal workflows through SideFX/GDC, shared development process through public devlogs, and tutored artists one-on-one in VFX workflows.
I'm strongest at the early, ambiguous stage of a project: forming hypotheses, finding the hidden structure, reading the docs or the source, and building prototypes that make an idea concrete. Once the shape is clear, I like tightening the system until it feels reliable, usable, and easy to reason about.
Currently
Building Pawkraft Co. and a portfolio of applied AI tools
Interested in
Workflow design, applied AI, creative tooling, technical communication, and hard-to-pin-down automation problems
Communication
SideFX/GDC technical talk, public devlogs, and one-on-one VFX tutoring
Looking for
AI adoption, workflow automation, digital transformation, and applied AI systems, Melbourne or remote
Location
Melbourne, VIC
© 2026 Kristian Kebbe
Melbourne, VIC