CGI NERD / SELECTED WORK

IDEAS INTO IMAGES.

Studio productions, individual career contributions, and original research. Explore the work in its own context.

01 / INDIVIDUAL CAREER CREDIT
Overhead zombie crowd surrounding a vehicle in a Las Vegas street from the GM × Netflix Why Not an EV? campaign.
Official campaign still · Framestore / GM × Netflix

Commercial / CG FX

Why Not an EV?

GM × Netflix

CG FX and Houdini crowd work for the GM × Netflix Super Bowl campaign at Framestore.

  • VFX — Framestore
  • Alejandro Perez — CG FX at Framestore
View project at Framestore
02 / STUDIO PRODUCTION
A group of crows swoops toward a large armored figure standing in an open field.
Crow sequence · Archived production frame

Feature film · VFX studio production

Strait Undercover

Fish & Crown Creative

From crow-flocking sequences to compositing, CGI Nerd delivered visual effects for this independent feature.

  • CGI Nerd — VFX production studio
  • Alejandro Perez — VFX Lead
Explore the VFX case study
03 / RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT
Ranks of orange and charcoal robot agents in CGI Nerd’s procedural crowd formation artwork.
Houdini crowd formation · Approved original artwork

Procedural crowds / RIT research

Epic Robot Army

RIT · Characters & Crowds

Procedural crowd formations connected to RIT’s grant-supported Characters & Crowds initiative.

  • Original crowd demonstration — CGI Nerd
  • RIT course collaboration — Alejandro Perez & Shaun Foster

Research detail page in preparation

04 / RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT
White, charcoal and orange CGI Nerd mannequin concept designs on a color variation study sheet.
Concept artwork · Not finished or rigged 3D characters

Original R&D / In development

Character Labs

CGI Nerd

AI-to-3D and Houdini pipeline experiments. Colorway concepts shown; finished 3D assets remain in development.

  • CGI Nerd — Original research & visual development

Experiment log in preparation

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