Shot Breakdown
Role: Compositor/Lighter/Shader.

Scene shaded and lit with Maya/Mental Ray mia_material shaders and directional light sources. Car model was provided. Index pass compositing and grading done in Nuke.

Project duration: two days.

Role: Compositor/Modeler.

Scene geometry modeled in Maya. Camera animated in Maya. Original photo painted/cloned into a background plate in Photoshop. Photo found online.

Project duration: one day.

Role: Compositor/Modeler/DP.

Background modeled and animated in Maya. Keyed in Nuke with IBK soft edge and Primatte hard edge. Shot on video at 60fps, and lit with Elinchrom Octabox.

Director: Emily Hendricks.

Project duration: two days.

Role: Lead Compositor. Pans tracked in Mocha and retimed in After Effects. Planar scene geometry modeled in After Effects. Camera animated in After Effects. Roto on one shot; all other roto provided. RED footage graded in Redcine and After Effects.

Director: Garson Yu.

Producer: Katie Rauh.

Project duration: three weeks.

Role: Compositor.

Tracking in Nuke and Boujou. Cloning mattes linked to trackers, with light touchup with Nuke paint tool.

Director: Dan Reid.

VFX Supervisor: Brinton Jaecks

Project duration: ongoing.

Role: Lead Compositor.

Lumakey, garbage mattes, and random intensity flicker on each relit source in Shake. Roto provided.

Art Director: Neil Huxley.

Producer: Katie Rauh.

Project duration: three days.

Role: Animator/DP.

Built custom motion control system with Pacific Scientific steppers and drivers coupled to Arduino controller. Shot with Digital SLR. Digital negatives processed in Adobe Camera Raw.

Project duration: two days.

Role: Lead Compositor.

Footage tracked and stabilized. Dust matted with a difference matte of one frame with the proceeding frame. Patched with the contents of the proceeding frame. No paint tool work. Originally created in After Effects, rewritten for Shake, Nuke.

Director/Cinematographer: John Terry.

Project duration: three days.

Role: Compositor.

Datamoshing in Avidemux. Matte painted in Photoshop.

Project duration: ongoing.