Cale Schmidt

Work History

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  VFX Compositor

  Pixomondo

  January 2024 - December 2024
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  VFX Compositor

  Double Negative

  November 2021 - October 2023

  Toronto

  Worked on several blockbuster films(Devotion, Aquaman 2, Godzilla x King Kong 2024) and some television(HBO: Gilded Age and AppleTV: Masters of the Air).
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  sequence lead compositor

  SPIN VFX

  August 2019 - November 2021

  Toronto

  Promoted to Sequence Lead Compositor. Responsibilities ranged from leading a small team of compositors, building contact sheets, look development, working on master shots, and qc-ing other artists work before approving for supervisor review.
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  VFX Compositor

  SPIN VFX

  February 2017 - August 2019

  Toronto

  Started as a junior compositor gradually working my way from roto/key/prep work to more compositing responsibilities within 3-6 months.
  
  Worked on many television shows such as: Fear of the Walking Dead, The Gifted, Nightflyers, The Expanse, and Siren.
  
  Worked on several features: Man From Toronto, Into the Tall Grass, Zombieland 2, The Catcher was a Spy, Escape Room: Tournament of Champions, and Flatliners.

  

  

  
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  paint artist

  Stereo D

  December 2015 - February 2017

  Toronto, Canada Area

  Responsible for converting 2d images into 3d stereoscopic images.
  
  As a paint artist, we were tasked with recreating missing information between objects or recreate objects entirely that may have been destroyed in the conversion process.
  
  I completed tasks like recreating background, recreating hair detail, animating procedural assets to match moving objects.
  
  Skills ranged from dynamic paint, 2d/3d tracking, compositing fine hair detail, building clean plates, keying and roto.
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  Student

  Full Sail University

  August 2013 - August 2015

  Winter Park, FL