Keylana Studios
Keylana Studios
Macro liquid & product FX for beauty, luxury & beverage
Nairobi, Kenya
jacktone@keylanastudios.com

About

Keylana Studios is a specialist VFX team working in macro fluid simulation and procedural FX for beauty, luxury and beverage brands.

We take the shots agencies find hardest to get right: pours, splashes, viscous materials, condensation, carbonation and macro product interaction — built as procedural systems that survive art-direction changes without starting again from frame one.

Selected work: Prada · PepsiCo · Maybelline · NYX · FILORGA · Bud Light · Kärcher · Poppi

Full pipeline in-house — Houdini, Redshift, Nuke. Remote, worldwide.

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Skills

Particle EffectsRigid Body Dynamics3D Rendering3D VisualizationHard Surface ModelingLook DevelopmentFluid SimulationProcedural ModelingCloth SimulationProduct VisualizationVisual EffectsMotion Graphics3D Modeling

Software proficiency

After Effects
After Effects
Houdini
Houdini
Maya
Maya
Nuke
Nuke
Redshift
Redshift

Productions

    • Commercial / Advertisement
      Acnes TVC VFX
    • Year
      2019
    • Role
      Visual Effects & 3D Modeling
    • Company
      Amitations Productions

Experience

  • Founder & FX Director at Keylana Studios
    Nairobi, KE
    January 2023 - Present

    Specialist VFX studio working in macro fluid simulation and procedural FX for beauty, luxury and beverage brands. Liquid, viscous material and macro product interaction for commercial and campaign shots, built as procedural systems that survive art-direction changes. Full pipeline in-house — Houdini, Redshift, Nuke.

  • FX Artist at Kedron
    June 2025 - July 2025

    Fluid simulation for hero shots, plus R&D and troubleshooting alongside the internal team.

  • Fluid FX Artist at Prodigious Worldwide
    Nairobi, KE
    March 2025 - May 2025

    Custom fluid simulations for beauty products, focused on organic form and controllable behaviour. Built tools and optimised workflows for simulation-heavy shots, working with a distributed team.

  • Visual Effects Artist at OOVFX
    Nairobi, KE
    February 2025 - March 2025

    Controllable fluid simulations for matchmoved shots, working directly with the creative director on look and technical execution.

  • FX Artist at Zünc Studio
    January 2025 - February 2025

    Built a reusable library of liquid splash assets. R&D on droplet flow and cloth-fluid emission, plus workflow troubleshooting across shots.

  • FX Artist at Verso
    March 2024 - April 2024

    Splash and foam assets for client shots, plus fluid-product interaction work and workflow optimisation.

  • FX Artist at Raw Cereal
    March 2024 - April 2024

    High-detail volcanic flow and splash assets. Cloth simulation and fluid asset interaction, plus workflow troubleshooting.

  • FX Artist at bEpic GmbH
    Berlin, DE
    September 2021 - November 2021

    Custom fluid simulation design and secondary FX R&D.

  • FX Artist at LVLY
    New York, US
    July 2021 - August 2021

    Custom fluid simulation setups, ripple solvers and simulation optimisation.

  • FX Artist at BUCK
    Amsterdam, NL
    June 2021 - June 2021

    Custom fluid techniques for product presentation shots, working alongside the internal FX team.

  • FX Artist at Crafthive Creative
    CA
    May 2021 - June 2021

    Food chunk RBD simulation plus custom liquid curry and smoke interaction for semi-realistic pan-flip and boiling-water shots.

  • FX Artist at Duggal
    New York, US
    January 2021 - December 2023

    Custom interacting fluid splashes, surface ripples and gel-like viscous extract for cosmetic product commercials.

  • FX Artist at LVLY
    New York, US
    October 2020 - November 2020

    Custom heart-shaped fluid with procedural ripples and accompanying droplets for a product presentation.

  • FX Artist at Suberashi
    AU
    February 2020 - December 2021

    Custom fluid solutions (liquid and smoke) and reusable templates for main FX work across multiple commercial projects.

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