COMPOSITING SUPERVISOR | CG tree & vine integration, wound embellishments, wing comp look dev

I was fortunate enough to get to work on “The Shade” during my time at Fancy House of Visual Effects, and it had some really fun conceptual sequences that we were able to bring to life. The first, was a series of shots where an actor was “becoming” a part of a tree. While there was a practical tree filmed with the actor inside - during RnD we made the decision to ultimately do a full CG replacement of the tree, to allow for more control with the vines growing out of the hole and connecting to the actors jawline/neck area. Making this connection feel natural and authentic, as well as matching the motion of the vines to the movement of the actors head was definitely the biggest challenge for this sequence. The other section we worked on was the final full reveal of the antagonist character which involved a good amount of costume embellishment and cleanup, and a large CG wing reveal. Huge props to our head of CG, Tim Sepulvida for running through countless versions of the wings to bring them to such an awesome final look.

VFX CREDITS

VFX Executive Producer: Alex Tracy
VFX Supervisor: Randie Swanberg & Mario Caserta
Head of CG: Tim Sepulvida
Compositing Supervisor: Chris Green
Senior Compositor: Aaron Baker
Senior VFX artist: Mark Woit
CG artsts: Joseph C. Thomas & Luis Alberto Cayo
VFX Coordinator: Alanna Morton
VFX Data io Manager: Andrew Santanastaso
VFX Data io: Hope Bankert
Engineering: Harry Chung

SENIOR COMPOSITOR | Keying, Set extension, CG integration, 2D / Planar tracking, photo and label replacements, paint

This project was interesting in the fact that the interior NYC and LA home sets, as well as the airport finale to the film, were all filmed entirely on bluescreen sets rather than on location, and so the majority of the film required an enormous amount of keying and complex set extension using a mix of both CG and live action DMP to help the settings feel alive. It was a tremendous amount of work but we had a great team and I think we were all super happy with where it landed.

COMPOSITING | Set Extension and CG reposition, CG Integration, Glitch effects, Camera glitch animation

AWARDS

AICP Show Winner | Visual Effects
AICP Post Winner | Best of East
AICP Post Winner | Compositing
AICP Post Winner | Visual Effects
CLIO Gold | Film Craft Visual Effects
CLIO Bronze | Film Craft Direction
CLIO Nominee | Film under 5 minutes
D&AD Wood Pencil | Film Commercials Over 30 Seconds
VES AWARDS Winner | Outstanding Compositing in a Commercial
THE ONE SHOW Gold | Moving Image Craft Visual Effects
BRITISH ARROWS Bronze | Craft Visual Effects
SHOTS Silver | Visual Effects
CICLOPE Bronze | Visual Effects
MUSE AWARDS Platinum | Video

CREDITS

CLIENT: Verizon
AGENCY: Madwell
CHEIF CREATIVE OFFICER: Chris Sojka
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Ryan Howard
COPY DIRECTOR: David Salisbury
ASSOCIATE CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Micky Treutlein, Matt Fry, Alex Kaufman
SENIOR PRODUCER: Jacquelyn Maloney
.
PRODUCTION: Independent Media
DIRECTOR: Doug Liman
MANAGING DIRECTOR: Susanne Preissler
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Hoyte Van Hoytema
.
EDITOR: Saar Klein
COLOR: Kristopher Smale
.
VFX: Moving Picture Company
MANAGING DIRECTOR: Angela Lupo
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Matthew Loranger
PRODUCER: Gwen Frey, Nicole Melius, Chanakya Chander
PRODUCTION COORDINATOR: Stephen Dierks, Sahil Sunil Wadhwani
.
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Alvin Cruz
2D LEAD: David Piombino
3D LEAD: Chris Bernier
.
2D TEAM: Rajesh Kumar Kaushik, Tim Crean, Chris Green, Esther Song, Renato Carone, Todd Sarsfield, Mazyar Sharifian, Dylan Nett, Kyle Andal, Gerard Andal, Michael Glen, Chris Gereg, Jeen Lee, Dan Giraldo, Mayank Shekar Tiwari, Satya Narina, Dilipan J, George Gijo Peter, Hanuma Hanumath Prasad, Malligeswaran K, Manideep Sanisetty, Shalwin Shaiju, Vipin Tripathi
.
3D TEAM: Jacob T Oommen, Kunal Sarkar, Chris Wachter, Roberto Maki, Andrew Boccio, Lucy Choi, Jessie Amadio, Jemmy Molero, Ash Yee, Brandon Thomas, Mirelle Underwood, Andrew Ortiz, Jean Choi, Maximilian Mallmann, Bibin Balin, Richard Morton, Arun Ramkrishna Sharma, Kuntal Kanti Bera, Bibin Balan P, Jyoti Prakash Panda, Sandeep B K, Sandeep Grover, Ullas Thunga k, Gangadhar Durga Molleti
.
CONCEPT ART: Roger Hom
LEAD MATTE PAINTING: Daniel Bayona, Radhakrishnan R
MATTE PAINTING: Joyett Granfred Fernandes, Sachin Dhapudkar S, Shanmugavel V
DESIGN: Stéphane Rodriguez, Farid Ghanbari, Gianna Yarull Urena
.
PREVIS ARTIST: Simon Halpern
HEAD OF VISUALIZATION: Patrick Smith
.
MATCHMOVE LEAD: Elangovan Ganeshan
MATCHMOVE TEAM: Ankit Dheraj Toppo, Konduru Achiraju, Rais Pinjari, Shakti Jadhav, Smijumon Viswanathan
.
ROTO & PREP SUPERVISOR: Silambarasan RP
PREP TEAM: Anand Prakash Singh, Anilkumar Madhavan, Guthikonda Venkateswara Rao, Irshad Abdulla, Jagadeesh Dasari, Putta Mahesh
ROTO TEAM: Abhijith Sekhar, Dibin Dharmendran, Gurram Srinivasulu, Hemanth Munithimma Reddy, Manjunatha Narasimmaiya, Noti Malakondareddy, Saloni Mehta, Selvakumar Somasundaram, Thota Ramaseshu, Vadiraj Kupaneshi, Raghvendra Singh

COMPOSITING LEAD | CG comp

CREDITS

CLIENT: Sharpie
.
VFX: The Moving Picture Company
PRODUCER: Yvonne Apollonio
PRODUCTION COORDINATOR: Juli Wright
.
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Sina Taherkhani
VFX SUPERVISOR: David Piombino
COMPOSITING LEAD: Chris Green
COMPOSITING: Todd Mesher, Taylor Feld
CG SUPERVISOR: Meg Ryan
LIGHTING: Lucy Choi, Mirelle Underwood
COLOR: Ashley Woods

COMPOSITING | Set Extension, Fire & FX, CG Elements, Dirt & Grime, Tracked Eyes

Produced at MPC

COMPOSITING | CG Stadium Elements, Crowd, Banners & Flags, Camera Flashes, Ground Extension

Produced at MPC

COMPOSITING | Set Extension, CG Elements, Camera Shutter, Shuttle Fire & Smoke

Produced at: MPC

COMPOSITING | Day to Night, CG Trees & Snow, Car Headlights, Road Line Removal

Produced at MPC

COMPOSITING | CG Street Lights and Road Lines, Tracked Logos, Set Extension, CG Road Lines, Car Reflections

Produced at MPC

COMPOSITING | CG Trees & Light Poles, Hill Color Correction, Tracked Logos

COMPOSITING | Keying, CG Stadium, Crowd, Camera Flashes, Lighting

Produced at Parachute

COMPOSITING | CG Ball and Submarine, Additional Light Rays, Glow

Produced at Parachute

COMPOSITING | CG Environments, Scene Stitching, Screen Tracking, Rotoscope

Produced at Parachute

COMPOSITING | Full CG Composite with Video Projection

Produced at Hornet

COMPOSITOR | Set Extension, CG Snow & Trees, Day to Night, Rotoscope

Produced at Parachute

CG | COMPOSITING | Texturing, Lighting, Compositing

CG | CG Shoe Texture, Fluid Simulation

Produced at Vitamin Pictures

CG | Environment Model, Tile Texture & Animation

Produced at Digital Kitchen

CG | Globe and Arrow, Lightbulb Model & Animation

Produced at Digital Kitchen

CG | COMPOSITING | Texturing, Animation, Lighting, Compositing CG Renders

Produced at Digital Kitchen

Natural Re-sasters is a documentary short that takes a look back at the year 2067, when man learned how to re-channel energy from natural disasters plaguing the earth.

Creative Director: Aaron Becker / Art Director: Jason Esser
Design & Animation: Ryan Sneddon, Mike Cone, Chris Green
Original Music: Mark Walk (ophonic.com)
Narration: Jeff Christian (jcwhittler@worldnet.att.net)
Sound Design & Editing: Andrew Maggio (framecycle.com)
Producers: Colin Davis, Kent Smith