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