Richard Frazer

Work History

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  VFX supervisor

  BlueBolt

  March 2015 - December 2018

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
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  On-Set VFX Supervisor

  Lola Post Production

  October 2014 - February 2015

  A.D. (TV series 2015)
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  Stereoscopic Compositor

  MPC

  August 2014 - September 2014

  Exodus (2014 - Ridley Scott)

  

  
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  Senior Compositor

  Cinesite

  June 2014 - August 2014

  Hercules (2014 - Brett Ratner)
  Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2014 - Guy Ritchie)

  

• VFX Supervisor

  Aruna Post Production

  April 2014 - May 2014

  Superbob (2014 - Jon Drever)
  On-set supervision and overseeing delivery of over 100 VFX shots
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  Lead Compositor

  One Of Us

  October 2013 - April 2014

  Jupiter Ascending (2015 - Wachowski siblings)

• VFX Supervisor

  Aruna Post Production

  August 2013 - October 2013

  Superbob (2014 - Jon Drever)
  On-set supervision and overseeing delivery of over 100 VFX shots
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  Compositor

  Framestore

  May 2013 - August 2013

  Robocop (2014 - José Padilha)

  

  
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  Compositor

  Double Negative

  February 2013 - May 2013

  Fast and the Furious 6 (2013 - Justin Lin)

  
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  Senior Compositor

  One Of Us

  December 2012 - February 2013

  Under The Skin (2013 - Jonathan Glazer)
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  Compositing Tutor

  MPC

  October 2012 - December 2012

  Training team of junior compositors in advanced Nuke / MPC pipeline. Structuring course, assigning case studies, lecturing and reviewing work.
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  Senior Compositor

  One Of Us

  April 2012 - September 2012

  Cloud Atlas (2012 - Wachowski siblings)
  Gambit (2012 - Michael Hoffman)
  Under The Skin (2013 - Jonathan Glazer)

  
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  Stereoscopic Compositor

  MPC

  January 2012 - April 2012

  4 months at MPC working on the movie "Prometheus". I was compositing in stereo using Nuke, and part of a large-scale, well established pipeline.

  
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  VFX Supervisor

  LenscareFX

  November 2011 - January 2012

  Tea Shop & Film co. bought me in as vfx supervisor for the movie Tower Block, which was shot on location in London. I worked with the directors to design key vfx shots (set extensions, location enhancements, green screen work and gore effects) and worked on set to supervise the shoot. Post production involved me co-coordinating 8 artists in 4 countries to deliver 80 shots in just 8 weeks.
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  Senior Compositor

  Pixomondo

  December 2010 - November 2011

  I was initially employed with Pixomondo as a lead compositor on the movie "Dark Tide". After this delivered I was invited to join the team working on "Hugo" - my first stereoscopic feature film compositing work.

  

• Freelance Compositor, VFX Artist and Motion Graphic Designer

  Various

  September 2009 - December 2010

  Various work, mostly for London based studios. Clients have included:
  Addiction Worldwide, AKQA, AMV BBDO, BSkyB, Chrome Digital, Foster and Partners, Fox International, Fridgde D'Or Films, Grain Media, Greenpeace, HMX Media, Portobello Post, Pure Grass Films, Squint Opera, Superfad, Warp Records
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  Digital Paint and Rotoscope Artist

  Framestore

  November 2008 - September 2009

  I worked at Framestore in their digital prep department, on a number of feature film and TV titles. My key role was digital paint / rig removal / set extensions and rotoscoping in a large-scale vfx pipeline.

  

• Editor and Motion Graphic Designer

  Grain Media

  2008 - November 2008

  At Grain Media I was employed to travel to various sporting events around the world and shoot / edit packages onsite for broadcast and online content. I was also producing motion graphics packages for various clients.

• Lead Compositor

  Mobstar Media

  September 2007 - January 2008

  My contract at Mobstar Media was to produce visual effects and be a lead compositor on a Sci-Fi mini-series called "The Cell". The entire production was shot on a greenscreen stage and so required 3 months of intense work to create all of the digital environments and integrate the 40 minutes of delivered footage. I worked in a team with 4 other artists.

• Senior Compositor / Motion Graphics Designer

  West End Studios

  February 2003 - September 2007

  I worked in a senior role at West End Studios for 4.5 years, and was key in developing their post-production facilities from a minor subsidiary service to an efficient, profitable suite of 6 members of staff with its own 72sqm green-screen studio. It involved mostly motion graphics, compositing and editing work, as well as some multimedia programming.
  It was a high-pressure environment that regularly called for long hours, and periods working overseas on jobs.

• Studio Manager / Senior Multimedia Developer

  Procyon Ltd

  September 1997 - July 2001

  As graphic designer / multimedia developer at Procyon my job entailed development of interactive cd-roms, e-commerce sites, web-based applications, touch-screen kiosks, online advertising, and Shockwave games. It was also my task to design brochures, logos and corporate identities to accompany these products. I was eventually promoted to studio manager, but continued to be the primary multimedia developer.