Ashley Ward

Ashley Ward

Production Manager / VFX Coordinator / 10 yrs

Los Angeles, CA

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Associate Visual Effects Producer

Chapter Seven: The Massacre at Hawkins Lab (2022)

Visual Effects Production Manager

Watchmen (2019)

VFX Production Manager

Lost in Space (2018)

Associate Visual Effects Producer

Stranger Things (2016)

Compositor

Madea's Witness Protection (2012)

Visual Effects Coordinator

Madea's Big Happy Family (2011)

Visual Effects Coordinator

The Expendables (2010)

Visual Effects Coordinator

Why Did I Get Married Too? (2010)

Visual Effects Coordinator

I Can Do Bad All By Myself (2009)

Digital Compositor

Madea Goes to Jail (2009)

VFX Coordinator

Jupiter Ascending (2015)

VFX Coordinator

Seventh Son (2015)

Feature Production Coordinator

Snow White and the Huntsman (2012)

Visual Effects Coordinator

Warrior (2011)

VFX Coordinator

Abduction (2011)

Visual Effects Coordinator

Tyler Perry's A Madea Christmas (2013)

VFX Coordinator

For Colored Girls (2010)

Visual Effects Coordinator

Killers (2010)

Visual Effects Coordinator

The Next Three Days (2010)

I will be available for new projects in JANUARY 2017

After graduating from NYU, I moved out to LA to begin compositing. I worked as a Compositor/Coordinator for about 3 1/2 years and felt that the Production side of VFX suited me better. At that time I made the switch to full time production staff. Because of my experience compositing and working in production at both large and small facilities and in both television and features, I have a comprehensive understanding of the entire Visual Effects pipeline. I enjoy the fast paced environment of VFX and find that I'm very good at reorganizing to deal with the continuously changing scope of deadlines.
Work History

  • vfx production manager

    Starz Entertainment

    October 2014 - October 2014

    Project:
    Black Sails

  • VFX Coordinator

    Warner Bros. Pictures

    August 2013 - June 2014

    Project:
    Jupiter Ascending

  • Project Manager

    The Graphic Film Company

    June 2013 - August 2013

    At GFC, I organized communication and scheduling between the editing and animation departments to best utilize the resources under strict time constraints. I put together workflows and documented information using Shotgun to be used by the lighting/compositing team during shot production.

    Project:
    Night of the Living Dead: Origins 3D

  • Feature Production Coordinator

    Rhythm & Hues Studios

    July 2011 - May 2013

    My experience at Rhythm was concentrated on internal production. During Snow White, I was responsible for coordinating about 110 shots all the way from the animation through to the final composite. On Seventh, my experience focused on the end of the pipeline. I organized the completion of over 130 stereoscopic shots with artists in four international locations through accelerated/changing deadlines.

    Projects:
    Seventh Son, Feature Production Coordinator
    Snow White and the Huntsman, Feature Production Coordinator

  • VFX Coordinator

    2G Digital Post

    November 2008 - July 2011

    Since 2G is a smaller company, I had several jobs for each project. For most projects, I was responsible for coordinating all forms of information between editorial, scan houses, our internal media vault, the artists and the producer while compositing several shots myself. This experience gave me an extremely high level of communication, considerable attention to detail and some pretty great time management skills.

    Projects:
    Abduction, VFX Coordinator and Compositor
    Madea’s Big Happy Family, VFX Coordinator and Compositor
    For Colored Girls, VFX Coord

  • Image Restoration Specialist

    NYU Department of Art History

    September 2006 - August 2008

    Scanned in images from books or slides to color correct and clean for use in NYU online image database

  • Designer

    ABC News

    April 2007 - May 2007

    Worked to create motion graphics for a 20/20 Earth Day special program

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Education

  • New York University

    2006 - 2008

  • Ball State University

    2002 - 2006