Dale Pretorius

Work History

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  digital compositor

  Wētā FX

  November 2022 - June 2023

  Wellington, NZ

  
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  Digital Compositor

  Wētā FX

  August 2020 - December 2022

  

  

  

• Architectural Visualizer

  Buchan

  February 2020 - July 2020
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  Digital Compositor

  cause+fx

  October 2019 - December 2019

  Auckland

  The Wilds
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  VFX Lecturer - Bachelors Degree

  Media Design School

  March 2014 - October 2019

  Auckland

  Lecturer for all aspects of VFX for the Degree.
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  VFX Lecturer/Supervisor

  Media Design School

  February 2015 - 2019

  Auckland, New Zealand

  Responsibilities: Leveraging from my industry experience in Digital Productions to teach key strategies and practices to effectively manage time critical deadlines and complex problem solving.
  
  Project/Production Management:
  
  • Status updates regarding progress of each teams responsibilities.
  
  • Project updates and dailies with feedback and suggestions for improvement.
  
  • Reporting of projects for each teams production and how to move forward.
  
  • Maintaining timelines and reassessing schedules to ensure timely delivery is met.
  
  • Identifying the What, Why and When.
  
  • Prioritizing parts of a project maintaining logical workflow according to schedule and delivery.
  
  • Scope- update and expanding a project depending on speed of progression in relation to each teams schedules.
  
  • Strategy
  
  • Stakeholder Management (Students being the stakeholders)
  
  • Cross-functional communication (multiple teams and expertise)
  
  Data Analysis:
  
  • Identify problems faced by each team and work on viable solutions to each issue.
  
  • What are the Outcomes of each stage and do they match what was required by the brief?
  
  • List results of each phase of production ensuring that teams are not deviating from the goal.
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  Nuke Compositor

  Artifex Studios

  March 2014 - July 2014

  
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  Environment TD

  MPC

  July 2013 - March 2014

  Current: The Amazing Spider-man 2
  Disney's Maleficent
  Edge of Tomorrow
  Jersey Boys

  
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  Freelance Nuke Compositor

  Toybox

  June 2013 - June 2013

  Auckland

• Freelance Nuke Compositor

  Popup Workshop

  May 2013 - May 2013

  Auckland

• Environment TD

  Pacific Renaissance Spartacus

  April 2012 - January 2013

  Gabadore -Auckland

  Nuke - 3D projection of the created Latlong paintings, camera setup and finalizing the look to be followed through by the Vendors.
  Maya - Asset,set and environment creation for The world of Spartacus in 3D that gets passed to the Matte Painters.
  Vue - generating base environments that get passed to the Matte Painters.
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  Nuke Compositor

  Images & Sound

  September 2010 - April 2012

  Kiwi Flyer - Feature
  Snow in Paradise - Short
  Shackelton’s Captain - Documentary
  Koros Medal - Official Selection for:
  Berlin Kinderfest Film Festival 2010
  Edinburgh International Film Festival
  Chicago International Childrens Film Festival
  New Zealand International Film Festival
  National Geographic All Roads Film Festival
  Spartacus Vengeance - TV Series
  Spartacus Gods Of The Arena - TV Series
  Noir - TV Series
  Ladi 6 "Like Water" Music Video
  Rugby World Cup 2011
  Shackelton’s Captain
  The Almighty Johnsons
  Rialto Cinemas