alex snookes

Work History

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  VFX Supervisor

  Electric Theatre Collective

  August 2020 - Present
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  VFX Supervisor

  MPC

  September 2018 - August 2020

  Lyxn - Africa
  Vodafone - Be Unlimited
  Eurostar
  Palace - LA, Tokyo, Court Date
  Be Cool Be Nice
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  Compositor

  MPC

  September 2016 - September 2018

  Ikea, Ghosts
  Jaguar, Breed Apart
  Channel 4, Idents
  Apple, Barber
  Abarth, Pista
  VW, Bam 15sec
  Diesel, Go With The Flaw
  Ghost in the Shell
  John Lewis Christmas 2016, Buster the Boxer
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  Compositor

  MPC

  September 2016 - September 2018

  Ikea, Ghosts
  Jaguar, Breed Apart
  Channel 4, Idents
  Apple, Barber
  Abarth, Pista
  VW, Bam 15sec
  Diesel, Go With The Flaw
  Ghost in the Shell
  John Lewis Christmas 2016, Buster the Boxer
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  Compositor

  The Mill

  May 2016 - September 2016

  London, United Kingdom

  Sky, Cinema Launch
  Nike, The Switch
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  Compositor

  MPC

  April 2015 - July 2015

  Soho, London

  Samsung, Dolphin Whisperer - Comping a CG Dolphin into water as well as 2d cleanups.
  
  Boots, Beauty Emporium - Comping the CG firefly, various clean ups and creating the transitions between shots. This included a mixture of 2d and 3d elements and techniques to blend two environments together.
  
  U2 VR - Stitched GoPro cameras in stereo to create a seamless vr world viewable through the Oculus. Cleanup in stereo and in VR which meant our plates were 4k and made up of 8 different cameras. Helping with pipeline and working in the project on Nuke Studio to help us manage timeline.
  
  Ikea, Monkeys - Comping the CG elephant and adding additional monkeys to the plate as well as Bg replacement, adding water and monkey interaction. Bg replacements, cleanups, adding more elements to shots and stitching shots.
  
  King Games, Paradise Bay - Clean up, stitching the plates for the man in the boat and integrating the bird on the shoulder.
  
  Cadbury, Puddles - Creating the colourful houses puddle shot and hand animating Ducky's limbs.
  
  Farm Heroes Saga - Comping the CG flamingo and pink flower shot as well as clean up and prepping the 2d carrots.
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  Compositor

  Unit Media

  March 2015 - April 2015

  Soho, London

  Carling Seagull - Compositing a cg seagull into a seaside environment.
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  Compositor

  Realise Studio

  June 2013 - January 2015

  G-star Raw - Keying fragments of jeans from multiple plates and rebuilding them to form a composition that matched the cg.
  
  Carlsberg - Stabilising Go Pro footage using Rolling Shutter, background clean up including rebuilding characters arms and re-animating them, roto and integrating cg both through the 2d and 3d systems.
  
  Toyota - Lots of clean up taking reflections out of the car and removing objects in the surrounding environment. Keying and comping cars with people and interaction with a background screen.
  
  Thomson - Integrate and comp full cg ogre faces on to a prothetic ogre suit. Cleanup making the suit look more realistic and having to resize the ogre to make him look much larger. I was also tasked with one of the 30 second trailers to re-create the sand which was done through projections and matte paintings.
  
  Buchanan's – Nuke 2d lead, managing work between other artists. Keying Elephants, crowd extensions, background replacements.
  
  Kingsmans Secret Service – Developed a look for under the skin wiring heating up. I managed to complete 3 shots which went into the final cut.
  
  Da Vinci's Demons Seasons 2/3 - Look development for the cg shots and helped set up the pipeline using Hiero. Comping matte paintings and adding blood effects. Keying people on boats to match a cg environment. On season 3 became sequence lead for 6 shots. Towards then end of the project was 2d lead finishing off the episode. Season 3 predominately full cg comps.
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  Compositor / Photographer

  HMX Media

  November 2010 - May 2012

  London, United Kingdom

  
  Nuke compositor and photographer working in a pipeline on projects for Sony, Nikon and Lenovo.
  I began as a product photographer for 3d referencing.
  My role was as a compositor working mainly in cg and look development, along with live action cleanup and screen replacements.
  

• Promo launch video

  Dj Push & SupremeBeing

  November 2011 - January 2012

  
  For this I was asked to create a promotional video for an emerging disk jockey artist, which was sponsored by SupremeBeing. I was in charge of creating the concept and directing the shoot as well as producing and editing roles.
  
  
  https://vimeo.com/56686149
  

• Photographer

  Wendover Heights

  July 2008 - September 2010

  Hosted a number of photo shoots over a few years, photographing clients pets, with all profits going to charity.
  
  https://www.alexsnookes.com/pet-portraits
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  3d Logo Design

  Visual CineVideo

  2010 - 2010

  Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

  
  I worked for a production company called, ‘Visual Cinema’ designing a 3D logo which they use on their productions.
  
  
  https://www.alexsnookes.com/visual-cinema