Alastair Cross

Alastair Cross

Head of Lighting

Vancouver, Canada

Lead Digital Artist

Tom and Jerry (2021)

Lighting TD

Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019)

Lighting TD

Mowgli (2018)

Lighting TD

Thor: Ragnarok (2017)

Lighting TD

Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017)

lead lighting TD

The Sandman (2022)

lighting td

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)

lighting td

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)

lighting td

The Legend of Tarzan (2016)

lighting td

The Martian (2015)

lighting td

Pan (2015)

lighting artist

Tree Fu Tom (2012)

I have over 12 years experience in Visual Effects and have worked on everything from childrens TV and corporate animation to high end Netflix and Hollywood blockbusters. I love being part of the teams that deliver the best VFX work in the world.

As well as the technical and artistic challanges, I particularly enjoy the people side of this job. Empwowering my team to be the best version of themselves in and outside of work is something I'm passionate about.
Work History

  • Head of Lighting

    Framestore

    January 2023 - Present
    Vancouver

  • Lighting Lead

    Framestore

    March 2019 - March 2023
    London, United Kingdom

  • lighting artist

    Framestore

    March 2015 - February 2019
    London, United Kingdom

  • 3D Artist

    MPC

    January 2015 - February 2015
    London, United Kingdom

  • Light & Render Artist

    Blue Zoo Productions

    April 2013 - January 2015
    London, United Kingdom

    Tree Fu Tom

    Lighting characters, environments and setting up render layers for all shot elements. Creating full environment light rigs when required, ensuring continuity between shots, pre-comping rendered elements.

  • Evening Course Tutor

    Escape Studios

    February 2014 - October 2014

    Teaching the evening 3D foundation course. See the link below for more details!

    https://www.escapestudios.com/3d-foundation/

  • Freelance CG Generalist

    Polar Media

    April 2012 - April 2013

    Working in small teams of 1-3 people delivering high-quality CG animations and visualisations for the oil and gas industry.

    BP Technology Experience:

    High profile project in collaboration with MPC for BP as part of their Olympics showcase. The final rendered footage needed to be aligned and projected on 4-5 walls creating the feeling of immersion in the 3D space. The seamless blending between cameras and large resolutions required meant we had to be very efficient with our testing and rendering setups.

    My roles:
    • VFX Supervisor on live action shoot a

  • Studio Assistant

    Escape Studios

    January 2011 - March 2012

    Duties: Acting as main point of contact for students, assisting in and out of classes with lessons, coursework and projects, assisting with the development and quality assurance of online course material, office administration work.

    Skills aquired:
    - Extended knowledge and familiarity of softwares used in Escape courses.
    - Excellent on-the-spot troubleshooting and problem solving skills.
    - Honed explanation and demonstrative skills when assisting students.
    - Great communications skills especially when dealing with difficult students, students with poor

  • Support Analyst

    IBM

    August 2007 - July 2010

    Duties and skills aquired:
    - Diagnosing highly technical issues with large-scale customer systems.
    - Researching and troubleshooting efficiently under high pressure.
    - Recreating customer environments and performing rigorous testing
    - Dealing with high profile, highly experienced and often irrate customers.
    - Managing and prioritising critical issues and an often unreasonable workload.
    - Quickly learning and utilising systems and environments hitherto unknown.

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Education

  • Escape Studios

    2010 - 2010

  • Trinity College, Dublin

    2002 - 2007