Helen Paul

Helen Paul

New Zealand

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Senior Lighting Technical Director

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023)

Senior Lighting Technical Director

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023)

Senior Lighting Technical Director

She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (2022)

Key Lighting Artist

BIOS (2021)

Visual Effects Artist

Wellington Paranormal (2021)

Key Lighting Artist

WandaVision (2021)

Key Lighting Artist

Cats (2019)

Senior Lighting Technical Director

Alita: Battle Angel (2019)

Lighting Technical Director

Avatar: Flight of Passage (2017)

Digital Compositor

Pete's Dragon (2016)

Lighting Technical Director

The BFG (2016)

Lighting TD and Compositor

Iron Man 3 (2013)

Lighting TD and Senior Compositor

Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)

Lighting TD and Compositor

Avatar (2009)

Work History
  • Lighting TD and Compositor

    Wētā FX

    August 2009 - Present

    Lighting/comping on Avatar
    Lighting/comping on Rise of the Planet of the Apes
    Lighting/comping on The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn
    Lighting/comping on Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
    Lighting/comping on The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
    Lighting/comping on Iron Man 3
    Lighting/comping on The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

  • Compositor

    Wētā FX

    March 2003 - Present

    Compositing on:
    Return of the King
    I Robot
    King Kong
    X-men: The Last Stand
    Eragon
    Bridge to Terebitha
    The Waterhorse
    Jumper
    Prince Caspian (2D sequence lead)
    The Day the Earth Stood Still
    The Lovely Bones (2D sequence Lead)
    District 9
    Avatar
    Knight and Day
    King Kong 360
    Predators
    Good For Nothing
    Gulliver's Travels

  • Visual Effects artist

    Wētā FX

    2001 - Present

    Lighting TD and Senior Compositor

  • Lighting TD

    Wētā FX

    March 2015 - March 2016
  • Wētā FX

    March 2014 - March 2015
  • Senior Paint Artist

    Wētā FX

    January 2002 - March 2003

    Senior paint artist whilst working on The Two Towers. This job required extensive paint-outs of actors from plates with other characters, as well as more run of the mill paint work.

  • Paint Artist

    Wētā FX

    January 2001 - January 2002

    Worked on Fellowship of the Ring as a paint artist.

Education
  • Wellington School of Design

    1997 - 1999
  • Hutt Valley Polytechnic (now Welltec)

    1996 - 1996