Paul Campion

Paul Campion

Freelance matte painter & vfx supervisor

Senior Matte Painter / Senior On-Set VFX Supervisor / 22 yrs

Wellington, New Zealand

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Matte Painter / Visual Effects Concept Artist

The Pope's Exorcist (2023)

Matte Painter

Pearl (2022)

Visual Effects Artist

X (2022)

Visual Effects Concept Artist

Catherine the Great (2019)

Visual Effects Concept Artist

Détour (2017)

Matte Painter

Legend (2015)

Matte Painter

Olympus (2015)

Matte Painter / Concept Artist

Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015)

Matte Painter / Concept Artist

Pride (2014)

Senior Digi-Matte Painter

Hugo (2011)

Visual Effects Concept Artist

Dorian Gray (2009)

Lead Texture Painter/Matte Painter/VFX C

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008)

Matte Painter / Visual Effects Supervisor

Back in Business (2007)

Lead Texture Painter/Matte Painter/VFX C

30 Days of Night (2007)

Lead Texture Painter/Matte Painter/VFX C

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)

Lead Texture Painter

The Water Horse (2007)

Lead Texture Painter/Matte Painter/VFX C

Eragon (2006)

Cinematics Texture Painter

Killzone: Liberation (2006)

Visual Effects Concept Artist

X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)

Lead Texture Painter/Matte Painter/VFX C

X-Men: The Official Game (2006)

Matte Painter

Sin City (2005)

Texture Artist

Constantine (2005)

Paul began his career as a freelance illustrator in the UK. He studied Computer Animation at Bournemouth University and subsequently moved to New Zealand to work as a texture painter and matte painter on The Lord of the Rings Trilogy. He has since worked in San Francisco and London as a concept artist, matte painter and texture painter. Paul directed the low budget horror feature The Devil's Rock, three short films, The Naughty List, Eel Girl and Night of The Hell Hamsters, and is currently making his fourth short film Back in Business.
Work History
  • Matte Painter

    OHUfx

    February 2022 - March 2022
    Wellington, New Zealand
  • On-Set Reference Photgrapher

    Wētā FX

    October 2020 - December 2020
    New Zealand
  • Matte Painter

    Framestore

    October 2019 - November 2019
    Auckland, New Zealand

    Matte painting on A Christmas Carol TV Mini-series.

  • Matte Painter

    Blockhead VFX

    September 2019 - September 2019
    Auckland, New Zealand

    Matte Painting work on Baker of Beruit TVC for Blockhead Australia.

  • VFX Concept Artist

    Outpost VFX

    November 2018 - November 2018
    Bournemouth

    Matte painting concept art for the TV series Catherine the Great

  • Matte Painter

    Cinesite

    May 2016 - June 2016
  • Matte Painter

    One Of Us

    November 2015 - December 2015
    London, United Kingdom
  • Matte Painter

    Lipsync Post

    August 2015 - October 2015
    UK

    Matte painter on the feature film The Nice Guys, Concept artist on the feature film Detour.

  • BFX Competition and MA Computer Animation Mentor

    Bournemouth University

    August 2015 - October 2015
  • Competition Mentor

    BFX Festival

    July 2015 - August 2015
    Bournemouth, United Kingdom

    Mentoring teams of five students creating 2D and 3D animated 30 second commercials for Anthony Nolan and Dyslexia Action charities.
    https://www.bfxfestival.com/competition/
    https://www.bfxfestival.com/competition/bfx-mentors/

  • Texture Painter/ 3D Layout Artist

    One Of Us

    July 2014 - July 2015
  • Matte Painter

    Lipsync Post

    February 2015 - June 2015
    London, United Kingdom
  • Matte Painter

    Nviz

    April 2014 - January 2015
  • Directorial Intern

    PACIFIC RENAISSANCE SPARTACUS LTD

    August 2012 - October 2012

    Director's Intern shadowing director Michael Hurst during pre-production, production and post on Spartacus: War of the Damned - Episode 9 "The Dead and the Dying"

  • Online viral director

    Bare Films

    August 2011 - September 2011

    Director, editor, compositor - "Ghost caught on camera" online viral, part of a marketing campaign for UK mobile phone shop Phones 4 U.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBr1jcMWbVo

  • Senior Digi-Matte Painter

    Pixomondo

    July 2011 - September 2011

    Created matte paintings for Martin Scorcese's feature film Hugo.

  • VFX Concept Artist/Matte Painter/Compositor

    The Devil's Rock Ltd

    August 2010 - March 2011

    Created concept art for visual effects shots, created and composited matte paintings.

  • Visual Effects Concept Artist

    MPC

    June 2009 - November 2009

    Visual Effects Concept Artist on:
    Clash of the Titans
    The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader
    Percy Jackson and the Lightening Thief
    Dorian Gray

  • Lead Texture Painter/Matte Painter/VFX Concept Artist

    Wētā FX

    January 2006 - January 2008

    Taught trainee texture painters texture painting basics using Photoshop, Maya and Studiopaint software and Weta Digital texturing pipeline.

    X-Men 3 - Visual Effects Concept Artist
    Disney Logo - Matte Painter
    The Dambusters - Lead Texture Painter
    Prince Caspian: The Chronicles of Narnia - Texture Painter
    30 Days of Night - Texture Painter
    Fantastic Four Rise of the Silver Surfer - Texture Painter
    Waterhorse - Lead Texture Painter
    Eragon - Texture Painter

  • Previs/Matte Painter

    MPC

    August 2005 - September 2005
    Soho, London

    Created previs of one shot of the interior of St Sulpice for The Da Vinci Code

  • Matte Painter

    The Orphanage

    September 2004 - January 2005

    Matte Painter on Sin City

  • Matte Painter

    Tippett Studio

    January 2004 - July 2004

    Matte Painter on Constantine

  • Lead Texture Painter

    Wētā FX

    October 2002 - December 2003

    Lead texture painter on Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
    Created and managed online textures reference library.

  • Texture Painter/Matte Painter

    Wētā FX

    June 2000 - September 2002

    Texture painter on:
    The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
    The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

  • Modeller/Texture Painter

    Framestore

    January 2000 - June 2000

    Walking with Dinosaurs special: The Ballad of Big Al

  • Freelance Commercial Illustrator

    Freelance

    1990 - 2000

    Created illustrations for the advertising and publishing industries, specializing in book cover art for authors such as Wilbur Smith, Ben Elton and for children's fiction novels.

    Represented by Folio Illustration Agents.

  • Modeller

    Lego Media International

    November 1999 - December 1999

    Created CGI models of Lego for computer games.

Education
  • Bournemouth University

    1998 - 1999
  • Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and Design

    1989 - 1990
  • Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and Design

    1986 - 1988