Objective
Freelance or full-time visual effects work for feature film, television, commercials, and/or music videos using Combustion or Flame/Inferno.
Professional Work & Places Of Hire
Aurora Rising, Hollywood, CA 9/09-10/09 (freelance)
Rotoscoping work on a Dolby web-commercial, using Nuke on a PC.
Method, Santa Monica, CA 8/08-6/09 (intermittently, freelance)
Extensive paint and rotoscoping work on commercials for clients such as the Dicovery Channel, Guitar Hero, Sprint, Dentyne, and Yahoo!, as well as the “Battle for Milkquarius” web-movie (for Milk), using Nuke and Combustion on a PC and Linux platform. Also work on W. (feature film, credited) doing rotoscoping.
Brand New School, Santa Monica, CA 10/08-11/08 (freelance)
Rotoscoping work on Coca-Cola/L.A. Live and Campari commercials, using Combustion to mask and paint mattes, from rendered hicons.
Motion Theory, Venice Beach, CA 6/08-7/08 (freelance)
Work on a nationally-seen Sony commercial, doing detailed rotoscoping work in Combustion, on PC and Mac platforms.
Motion Theory, Venice Beach, CA 6/08-7/08 (freelance)
Work on a nationally-seen Sony commercial, doing detailed rotoscoping work in Combustion, on PC and Mac platforms.
Digital Domain, Venice Beach, CA 9/04-6/08 (intermittently, freelance)
Selected work with paint, removing marker on reflective surfaces and very close to faces, and rotoscoping.
A number of effects shots with extremely detailed and pain-staking rotoscoping and some paint, using Nuke Paint.
Rotoscoping on complex effects shots of lengths often well above 100 frames. Also leading on some shots with teams of up to six other artists.
Vast amounts of rotscoping, often involving clips of over 700 frames, with detailed work including hair
Extensive rotoscoping and rig- and wire-removal, including work using the warping tool, as part of a small cadre of roto-artists, using Combustion and Nuke.
Work on commercials with clients including Cingular, CVS, Buick, Adidas, Disney, Best Buy, Burger King/NFL, Acura, Listerine, Chrysler, and Heiniken (a spot which starred Brad Pitt, directed by David Fincher, and appeared during the 2005 SuperBowl).
Crafting mattes using Combustion 3.3, using various rotoscoping tools such painting, tracking, and extensive g-masks as well as marker removal using many of the same techniques. Also supervised a group of rotoscope-artists.
Sealevel, Venice Beach, CA 10/05-11/05 (freelance)
Best Buy commercial featuring the Pussycat Dolls
Lots of work assisting a lead compositor, producing mattes using rotoscoping and painting, using Combustion on a Mac.
Modern VideoFilm, Burbank, CA 6/95-08/04 (staff)
Work in feature film:
Extensive rotoscoping and matting, done on Inferno and Combustion 3.0. (Credited as "Roto Artist".)
Rotoscoping for mattes on numerous effects shots, on Combustion 3.0.
Compositing, masking, keying, and rotoscoping mattes for 10-minute long effect, shot from 6 different camera angles.
High-definition morph and compositing television screens.
Removing dirt and scratches by rotoscoping.
Boom-mike removal.
Shadows of Fury;
Wire removals on more than a dozen shots.
Work on Television:
Functioned as head morph artist, producing at least one morph for each episode (for well over 120 episodes). Also extensive compositing, as well as designing work.
Lengthy split-screen compositing, often several seconds long. Also a variety of compositing work.
Maintained weekly, often twice-weekly, effects incorporating tracking, keying, color correcting, and extensive rotoscoping. Worked as a part of a team with a number of supervisors and supervising producers.
Extensive wire removals, including work done against murky backgrounds and through chain-link fence, and morphing, including close-up shots
Compositing talking adult mouth on moving baby, requiring compositing, tracking, warping, and rotoscoping.
Work on season opener which included removing camera flares from faces and fauna
Scene transitions incorporating morphing and compositing;
Graphics design. This video won an MTV Music Video Award.
Split-screens and monitor compositing.
Rotoscoping including wire, logo, and blood removal. Also compositing muzzle-flashes on guns and monitor composites.
Letters-in-background removal utilizing tracking, masking, and extensive rotoscoping for three scenes nearly 10 seconds long each. In high-defintion.
Scratch removal.
Stabilizing background plates and removing camera weave.
All work listed above, except where noted, done on Flint, Flame, or Inferno system, with morphing done exclusively with Avid's Elastic Reality. Footage acquired from DigBeta.
Radium, Santa Monica, CA 1/01-2/01 (freelance)
Morph work only, performed with Elastic Reality on a Windows NT platform.
Encore, Hollywood, CA 4/97-10/99 (freelance)
Frequent freelance work performing many of the same duties as at Modern VideoFilm but with an emphasis on morphing.
References
Available upon request.
My demo reel is available online, with samples of effects from some shows listed above. You can also contact me for a higher-res version on DVD.
