Smoke & Mirrors NY Welcomes Senior Flame Artist Dan Kelly

Smoke & Mirrors New York is pleased to announce the addition of senior Flame Artist, Dan Kelly. Dan most recently served at New York-based rhinofx as a Senior Inferno Artist, leveraging his extensive background in both commercial and long-form VFX projects. Founder/CD Sean Broughton commented, "Dan's going to add both a wealth of talent and experience to the effects team here at Smoke & Mirrors, New York."

Since arriving at SMNY, he has already completed work on a Mercedes spot as well as the latest Feist music video with Patrick Daughters.

Before moving to New York, Dan worked at Toronto-based Spin VFX as Senior Visual Effects Supervisor working on features and commercials. While at the London visual effects house, Cinesite, Dan worked on The Goblet of Fire, the fourth installment of the Harry Potter series. In 2005 he led a commercial team as a Senior VFX Artist at Technicolor Creative Services in Canada. There, Kelly worked on notable spots for BMW, Motorola, Nokia, Stella Artois, and Ford, and also contributed to the film Saw II.

Kelly began his career in animation at London's Moving Picture Company (MPC). Working on spots for Guinness, Heineken, and Smirnoff Red, as well as music videos for Björk and Kylie Minogue, and contributed to the hit BBC series, Hustle. Dan also worked as Principal Partner and Creative Director at Think Creative, a prestigious design and marketing agency in London after studying Fine Art and Graphic Design at Central Saint Martins College.

About Smoke & Mirrors:

Founded by Creative Director Sean Broughton, CEO Penny Verbe and CTO Mark Wildig lead the New York and London-based design, animation and VFX studio Smoke & Mirrors. It has been synonymous with creativity, originality, and innovation since its inception.

Smoke & Mirrors has always succeeded because of its collaborative approach, building strong creative relationships with directors, producers, agencies and clients alike.

Each office fully is networked together with complementary systems allowing the facilities to share resources, expanding local capacity. Close involvement with manufacturers and developers has kept Smoke & Mirrors at the forefront of technology and on all levels.

Smoke & Mirrors diverse range of projects include: feature films from ranging from Harry Potter to James Bond, award winning commercials, music videos and television.