Story / performance / final image
Direct
Film direction, performance, cinematography, lighting, trailers and visual storytelling.
Age of DinosaursDirectorWarhammer + Outbreak 2DirectorZED RUN cinematicDirector
Director · Creative Director · Creative Technologist
RickPearce
Creative direction across film, animation, games and real-time production.
Creative direction · Cinematics · Lighting · Design
01 / Point of view
I direct and design cinematic worlds, then help build the real-time systems that make them possible.
My work spans animation, live action, games, virtual production and interactive experience, from Disney and high-end screen production to Unreal Engine, original games and new narrative IP.
02 / Selected work
All work and archive →01 / Flagship · Original IPCreator / Writer / Director / Producer
Ares Machina X1: ECHO
A six-part adult animated science-fiction series. The X1 cinematic, directed, shot and lit in Unreal Engine 5, is its proof piece.
02 / Game trailerDirector / Cinematography / Lighting
Age of Dinosaurs
UE5, CG and live action brought together as a cinematic campaign for location-based VR.
03 / VR campaignDirector / Cinematography / Lighting
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine VR
A live-action and Unreal cinematic campaign for Zero Latency's Space Marine VR experience.
04 / Animated filmArt Director / Technical Director
Roborovski
An award-winning real-time animated short that holds authored style and technical execution together.
05 / Interactive worldCreative Director, Spectre Studios
Human Park
Creative leadership across character identity, visual design, environments and social experience.
03 / Capability
Hover, focus or tap to open a panelThe image and the method.
World / character / visual language
Design
Creative and art direction, visual development, world building, environments, characters and original IP.
Ares Machina X1: ECHOCreator / DirectorRoborovskiArt DirectorHuman ParkCreative Director
Real time / production / systems
Build
Unreal Engine, virtual production, real-time animation, games, interactive worlds and technical pipelines.
Unreal FellowVirtual ProductionFenixUnreal Service PartnerSpectreReal-time / ICVFX R&D
Strategy / people / delivery
Lead
Creative strategy, multidisciplinary teams, R&D, production planning, partnerships and delivery.
Spectre StudiosCo-founderEmergiSimCo-founder / CTOFenix StudiosFounder / CEO / CCO
04 / Progression
About and career →A career built around change.
- 2001 onwardWalt Disney Animation
Digital matte painting, feature-animation craft and large-studio production discipline.
- Matte painting
- Feature pipeline
- Camera to creativeCinematography & Direction
Live action, broadcast, advertising, VFX, camera, lighting and editorial thinking.
- Cinematography
- Lighting
- Edit
- VFX
- 2016 onwardSpectre Studios
Co-founded an Unreal, VR and virtual-production studio later acquired by Virtually Human.
- Unreal
- VR
- Capture
- LED volume
- Founder chapterEmergiSim & Fenix
Applied real-time production to simulation, games, trailers and interactive systems.
- Simulation
- Games
- Studio leadership
- NowOriginal Worlds
Directing cinematic work and developing Ares Machina X1: ECHO, an authored animated series.
- Original IP
- Writing
- Series
Toolkit, carried forward
- Matte painting · Feature pipeline
- Cinematography · Lighting · Edit · VFX
- Unreal · VR · Capture · LED volume
- Simulation · Games · Studio leadership
- Original IP · Writing · Series
05 / Experience
Personal credits, founder roles, credentials and selected studio lineage. Hover, focus or tap to inspect.Across screen and real time.
Selected collaborations · Queensland, AU / International
Let's build
the next
world.
Available for directing, creative and art direction, cinematic and real-time creative leadership, original-IP collaboration, virtual-production development and selected studio partnerships.
rick@specvr.com ↗