David Moraton

Creative coding for digital content

David is a Senior FX Technical Director currently working at Wētā FX.

His educational background combines two Art Degrees at the Academy of Fine Arts in Valencia in Spain and the Fachhochschule Hannover in Germany, with three years of Computer Science studies at the University of Alicante in Spain.

He has a high level of expertise in Houdini and for the last 10 years, has been working in studios like Electronic Arts, Double Negative and Framestore developing stunning visual effects. The films he has has worked on include Man of Steel, Thor Ragnarok, Interstellar (2015 Oscar- and Bafta-awarded for visual effects), and most recently Avengers: Infinity Wars.

David also has an independent career as a visual artist with more than 15 years experience. His practice goes from oil painting to video art animation, and mainly involves the representation of sounds and symphonic musical pieces into vivid animated colours that he can actually "see", due to a perceptual condition called synaesthesia. In 2015 he was a finalist for the Lumen Prize for digital art, for his stereoscopic video art animation "Visus Sonitus I". This was a collaboration with the internationally acclaimed composer Einojuhani Rautavaara that faithfully represented the colours of his musical piece, "Cantus Arcticus: Concerto for birds and orchestra". In 2017 he collaborated with the Orchestra of the City of London to create a life visual colourful performance of their version of Wagner's "Tristan and Isolde" at the Tribe'17 International Art Festival.