Gianfranco Sgura

Work History

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  Comp Supervisor

  Wētā FX

  March 2021 - March 2023

  Wellington, New Zealand
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  Lead Compositor

  Wētā FX

  March 2020 - March 2021

  Wellington, New Zealand
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  Lead Compositor

  Wētā FX

  March 2019 - March 2020

  Wellington, New Zealand

  

  

  

  

  

  
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  Lead compositor

  Double Negative

  February 2015 - July 2015
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  Lead Compositor

  Industrial Light & Magic

  June 2014 - February 2015

  Singapore

  
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  Senior Compositor

  Industrial Light & Magic

  January 2014 - June 2014

  Singapore
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  Lead Compositor

  MPC

  March 2012 - August 2013

  London, United Kingdom

  - Assist the 2D supervisor in organizing the vfx comp workflow on the assigned sequences.
  - Provide shot by shot solutions to tackle specific tasks.
  - Bridge between the CG/DMP and the COMP departments making sure the artists could solve techical and artistical issues together.
  - Prepare Nuke templates for other compositors, ensuring a certain degree of homogeneity in the compositing pipeline.
  - Assist/Supervise the shooting of 2D SFX practical elements to be used in comp.
  - Provide Sequence/Shot neutral and look grading.
  - Composite shots.
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  Senior Compositor

  MPC

  May 2010 - March 2012

  London, United Kingdom

  
  - VFX Compositing tasks for films.
  - Helped my compositing leads accoplish their sequence grading and pipeline tasks.
  - Created a series of custom tools to speed-up some compositing tasks such as a 3D projection solver that doesn't need to import any geo in NUKE, a CG environment reflection/refraction tool based on normal passes, a CG relighting tool that uses HDRI maps and normal passes, a retiming tool keeps the elements in sync. + others.
  

  
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  Tutor - Compositing on Nuke

  Escape Studios

  August 2011 - February 2012

  London, United Kingdom

  
  Tutor on a basic to mid level compositing course based on NUKE.
  Approached the course both from the "tool" and the "on the job" aspects giving the necessary information to why and how to tackle the tasks.
  
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  Senior Shake Compositor

  Cinesite

  March 2010 - June 2010

  London, United Kingdom

  
  - VFX Compositing tasks for films.
  

  
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  Shake Compositor

  MPC

  2009 - February 2010

  
  - VFX Compositing tasks for films.
  

  

  

• CGI/VFX Supervisor

  The-Shift

  January 2007 - August 2009

  
  Supervised the CG/VFX pipeline from shooting on set to asset creation to delivering the final product, also creating the necessary tools when needed.
  

• Lecturer

  Istituto Europeo di Design - Milan

  October 2006 - February 2008

  
  Tutor on 2 years of Softimage|XSI course, bot general and lighting/compositing oriented.
  

• CGI Supervisor

  Videa - Roma

  2000 - 2006

  
  Supervised the CG pipeline from asset creation to rendering and compositing, also providing technical solutions.