Rob Evans

Rob Evans

Senior Paint & Rotoscope / 13 yrs

London, United Kingdom

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VFX Paint & Rotoscope Artist - Paddingto

Paddington (2015)

VFX Paint & Rotoscope Artist - Dracula U

Dracula Untold (2014)

VFX Paint & Rotoscope Artist - Guardians

Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)

VFX Paint & Rotoscope Artist - The Secre

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013)

VFX Paint & Rotoscope Artist - 47 Ronin

47 Ronin (2013)

VFX Paint & Rotoscope Artist - Lincoln (

Lincoln (2012)

- The Dictator (

The Dictator (2012)

Work History
  • Framestore

    April 2012 - Present
  • Lead Paint & Rotoscope Artist - The Legend of Tarzan (2016)

    Framestore

    March 2015 - February 2016
    London


    The Legend of Tarzan (2016)

    - Lead artist on the show
    - Lead a mid sized team of artists and helped with their day to day shot progression, quality control of their work and guiding them on shot requirements.
    - Mentored junior artists who had just started out and got their work up to a high standard.
    - Responsible for direct communication between vfx supervisors, production and the artists.
    - Handled outsourcing briefs and communication as well as quality control and feedback on their work.
    - Completed most senior and complicated shots on the show. Many of which included full shot repainting, CG integration and heavy roto work.
    - Worked directly with compositors and vfx supervisors for the best outcome on shots.
    - Concepted and did development on many shots to help out compositors, including time slipping of actors, multi-plate stitching and CG integration.
    - Helped to deliver 100s of shots on time and under budget.

  • VFX Paint & Rotoscope Artist - Guitar Hero Live

    Framestore

    February 2015 - March 2015
    London


    Rotoscope work for the backing videos of the songs in the game.

  • VFX Paint & Rotoscope Artist - Everest (2015)

    Framestore

    December 2014 - January 2015
    London, United Kingdom


    Everest (2014)
    - Heavy rotoscope work to implement a CG mountain and elements behind the actors.
    - Paint work clean ups of crew equipment, stunt wires and tracking markers.

  • VFX Paint & Rotoscope Artist - Paddington (2014)

    Framestore

    September 2014 - December 2014
    London, United Kingdom


    Paddington (2014)
    - VFX film with most of the work involving integrating a CG Paddington Bear with his live action co-stars and environments.
    - Heavy removal work of stand in actors to be replaced with the CG bears, usually while they are using live action elements which had to be kept and rebuilt.
    - Rotoscope work for everything Paddington touched, used or walked around, many per shot.

  • VFX Paint & Rotoscope Artist - Dracula Untold (2014)

    Framestore

    July 2014 - September 2014
    London, United Kingdom


    Dracula Untold (2014)
    - VFX heavy work for vampires and its fantasy/historical setting.
    - In depth rotoscope work for vampiric powers, battle scenes and set extensions.
    - Removal of modern day elements and wires from the set and actors.
    - Rotoscope work to break down different elements of an actor to allow for the vampire skin shedding vfx.
    - Detailed close up removal of markers on actors faces where they are to be replaced with digital vampire skin.

  • VFX Paint & Rotoscope Artist - Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)

    Framestore

    October 2013 - July 2014
    London, United Kingdom


    Guardians of The Galaxy (2014)
    - Our team was responsible for a large proportion of a very CG heavy film
    - The heaviest of the work was to bring on the two full CG characters of Rocket Raccoon and Groot.
    - Heavy amounts of rotoscope was needed to put these characters in the scene. Most scenes involve many characters, props and environment pieces.
    - Heavy amounts of detailed clean up was needed as well to remove to on set doubles of Rocket and Groot.
    - There was also work to remove eye line markers for Rocket and Groot as well as their tracking markers.
    - Also clean up of stunt wires and unneeded film making equipment in shot.

  • VFX Paint & Rotoscope Artist - Winter's Tale (2014)

    Framestore

    July 2013 - October 2013
    London, United Kingdom


    Winter's Tale (also know as A New York Winter's Tale in UK) (2014)
    - Paint clean up of unwanted background elements and removing modern day items from scenes set in the past.
    - Extensive rotoscoping of a live action horse and actors to allow for the horses' CG wings and set extensions .
    - Heavy roto work of all actors and elements in a scene to insert a CG iced over lake and various matte paintings.

  • VFX Paint & Rotoscope Artist - Robocop (2014)

    Framestore

    May 2013 - July 2013
    London, United Kingdom


    Robocop (2014)
    - Rotoscope work to put in CG ED-209 robots and the other EM-208 robots into the scene.
    - Various rotoscope work to help blend CG with live action elements of the main Robocop character.
    - Set extension rotoscope.
    - Paint work clean up of tracking markers and some on set stand in's of cg characters.

  • VFX Paint & Rotoscope Artist - The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013)

    Framestore

    March 2013 - May 2013
    London, United Kingdom


    The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013)
    - Part of the team for the shots set in Greenland and out on the Trawler.
    - Detailed rotoscope work of characters,fishing boats and helicopters to allow for a more stormy sky and ocean.
    - Paint work to remove unneeded elements from shots as well as some changes to set the scenes time and mood better.

  • VFX Paint & Rotoscope Artist - 47 Ronin (2013)

    Framestore

    October 2012 - February 2013
    London, United Kingdom


    47 Ronin (2013)
    - Heavy roto work for very CG intense film.
    - Roto work for everything from fight scenes to set extension to complete background replacement and to blend in CG characters.
    - Paint work which required the removal of tracking markers from the set and props.
    - Film was shot and all roto/paint completed in stereoscopic 3D.

  • VFX Paint & Rotoscope Artist - Gravity (2013)

    Framestore

    June 2012 - October 2012
    London, United Kingdom


    Gravity (2013)
    - Part of multi award winning VFX team.
    - Tasked with extensive, full body rotoscope for interior shots and detailed face rotoscopes for the faces to be placed within the spacesuits.
    - Removal paint work to clean up tracking markers on Sandra Bullocks character as well as elements of her harness and repairing her costume around it.
    - Shots were all completed on incredibly detailed 4k resolution plates and to the high requirements of Alfonso Cuaron.

  • VFX Paint & Rotoscope Artist - Lincoln (2012)

    Framestore

    May 2012 - June 2012
    London, United Kingdom


    Lincoln (2012)
    - Part of small team tasked with roto for set extension and the removal of modern day elements from shots.

  • VFX Paint & Roto Artist - The Dictator (2012)

    Framestore

    March 2012 - May 2012
    London, United Kingdom


    The Dictator (2012)
    - Roto for crowd scenes and set extension shots.

  • Runner

    Framestore

    January 2011 - February 2012
    London, United Kingdom


    Production and Studio Runner dealing in a wide variety of the industry

    Voted Runner of the Year for 2011 - 2012

    Head Runner:
    - Responsible for the organisation of the team and dealing with the work flow
    - Organising with department heads for all their runner needs
    - Liason with various vendors and companies that the studio works with
    - Stock management for the many consumables. From food items to building supplies
    - Taking full responsibility for the team and direct liason with heads of Building Services


    Art Department Runner
    - Dealing directly with the art director and artists/producers
    - Sourcing and purchasing reference materials
    - Preperation of artwork for client viewing
    - Setting up meeting rooms and greeting clients
    - Keeping studio area ship shape for the artists and clients
    - Book binding and some photoshop work for client materials


    Runner:
    - Dealing with requests from clients including high profile directors and executive producers
    - Cleaning up and maintaning artist floors and client meeting rooms
    - Delivery of client hard drives to various studios
    - Sourcing files from our vast archive
    - Morning set up and evening shut down of the floors and kitchens
    - Made enough tea to fill an olympic size sqimming pool
    - Preparing food for artists and lunches for clients
    - Arranging and setting up desks and artist areas to deal with production turnovers
    - Various and numerous maintenance tasks

  • Sales Assistant / Head of Games / Head of Tech

    HMV

    October 2008 - January 2011


    Head of Games
    - Responsible for ordering and maintaining stock levels for entire games department
    - Vast knowledge of games and consoles made me the first port of call for any employee who need assistance
    - Helping cinfused parents at Christmas
    - Supplied customers with technical knowledge of console and game recommendation
    - Arranging advertising and meeting with company reps
    - Updating of console bundles and game pre-order information
    - Arranging and keeping organised the whole games area

    Head of Tech
    - Responsible for entire tech section, maintaining stock levels and recommending products to order
    - Giving technical help to customers, including showing people how to use their devices and sometimes fixing them
    - Arranging and organising the entire tech section
    - Also responsible for miscellaneous stock

    Sales Assistant
    - General customer service
    - Dealing with complaints and working with customers to help them with their queries
    - Ordering in specific items for customers
    - Daily replenishment and maintaining of the sales floors
    - Weekly updating of the dvd/music charts stock and new releases

Education
  • Ravensbourne

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