Carl Stern

Work History

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  Visual Effects Supervisor

  Chicken Bone VFX (CBFX)

  September 2022 - April 2023

  Finaled 10 episodes of Apple's Foundation S2 for a profit. Worked on Netflix's Tradewinds S1 as well.
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  Visual Effects Supervisor

  Los York

  May 2022 - August 2022

  CG/VFX supervision on an international phone launch campaign. Full CG spots and live action.

• Visual Effects Supervisor

  Lockt Editorial

  November 2021 - April 2022

  El Segundo, California, United States

  VFX for cutting edge ads, series, and documentary films starring the biggest athletes and social justice heroes, repping the biggest brands in the world. Brand new arm of Stept Studios!
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  Compositor

  Picture Shop

  August 2017 - April 2021

  Burbank, CA

  Walking Dead integrate zombies cg and live action assets, matte paintings, gunplay, blood and gore. Many major network shows like NCIS, Magyver, Magunm PI, American Housewives, the Rookie, VFX supervision for Insatiable Four Fathers ABC pilot and many more.
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  Compositor

  Nomad

  July 2017 - August 2017

  Apple and Facebook campaigns.

• Brothers Ugly Productions

  March 2015 - August 2015

  Create and supe vfx for Scott Mann's latest feature starring Robert Deniro. Photo real riverboat casino addition as well as a lot of clean up and enhancement of fight scenes.

• Compositor

  BSG VFX @ Universal Studios

  March 2015 - August 2015

  Universal Lot - Studio City

  Wide open creativity and flexibility under Gary Hutzel's supervision and 'management light'!
  Honored to be a part of this amazing team. Sci-Fi fun compositing and match moving.
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  Match Mover

  Magnopus

  2015 - 2015

  Previz tracking for Jungle Book serving up to MPC
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  Compositor

  Look Effects

  2014 - 2014

  
  Compositing on Bones and Turn television series and the film Fury.
  

• Kaskade "Last Chance" music video

  November 2013 - November 2013

  Composite photo real whirlpool in Pyramid Lake, Sky/BG replacement, and comp actress/elements from pool shoot into lake scenes.

• Compositor

  The First Minute Short

  August 2013 - November 2013

  Culver City, CA

  
  Compositing time travel devices, old/new set extensions, and conceptualizing formulas.
  

• Compositor

  Big Machine Design

  October 2013 - October 2013

  Burbank, CA

  
  Composite large cats with models for a PUR Minerals/ Nat Geo ad campaign.
  

• Crazy Horse East

  March 2013 - September 2013

  Opening up satellite fx office in New York. Troubleshooting, supporting team, QC'ing and comping shots for Boardwalk Empire Season 4, Black Sails, and Wolf of Wall Street. Maintaining I/O communications and syncing film scans, visual effects elements and renders, between 2 servers vpn'd across the country.
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  Crazy Horse Effects

  October 2012 - March 2013

  Training Jr. Compers. Troubleshooting and administrating the server and render farm. Developing and proving techniques for use in a feature pipeline including Match Moving, CG integration, 2.5D matte painting workflow, and CDL I/O.
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  Jr. Compositor

  Crazy Horse Effects

  April 2011 - October 2012

  Venice, CA

  
  Learning production worthy compositing, match moving, and photo realistic integration of CG elements, matte paintings and shot footage. Assist on set VFX supervision of Gangster Squad and Savages.
  
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  Production Assistant

  Crazy Horse Effects

  November 2010 - April 2011

  
  PA for CHE Vfx on Water for Elephants and We Bought a Zoo. Observe and assist on set VFX supervision, problem solving, place and record tracking data, hdri, and reference photography.