Ed Wilkie

Work History

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  Senior Compositor

  Rising Sun Pictures

  January 2019 - January 2019

  Adelaide, AU
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  Senior Compositor

  Rising Sun Pictures

  January 2018 - February 2018

  

  
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  Lead compositor

  Park Road Post Production

  November 2017 - December 2017
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  Senior Compositor

  Digipost

  May 2017 - October 2017
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  Senior Compositor

  ScanlineVFX

  August 2014 - May 2017

  Doing early development work on upcoming projects

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
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  Lead Compositor and Pipeline TD

  Sauce FX

  November 2013 - July 2014

  I developed a new pipeline for Lifeforce Season 2. The Nuke pipeline is fully integrated with fTrack. I also automated the maya environment for the 3D team. I'm compositing and setting up 3D nuke environments for this show now the pipeline is setup and running.
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  Lead Compositor and Effects TD

  Karactaz Animation

  September 2013 - October 2013

  Setup and composited the latest Slingshot commercial. It involved mostly creating 3D nuke environments and mixing them with 3D renders to create more depth and realism. I also setup and simulated the text and slingshot banner in nCloth.
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  Senior pipeline developer and 2D/3D generalist

  Sauce FX

  August 2013 - September 2013

  Runing tests and developing pipeline for potential and upcoming projects.

• Lead Compositor

  Digipost Ltd

  October 2011 - April 2013

  I helped design, code and setup the Nuke compositing pipeline running on Linux and Mac OSX for Digipost and worked as Lead compositor both in house and remotely on Spartacus Season 3.
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  Senior 3D Generalist

  Sauce FX

  April 2012 - April 2012

  Developed previz for their Super Titanium Citizen Watch Commercial. Then modelled, animated, rigged, lit and rendered it.
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  Compositor

  Sauce FX

  June 2011 - October 2011

  Set up the pipeline and look development for the forest sequence for Spartacus Season 2 and composited episode 4.
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  Creatures TD - Facial Rigging

  Wētā FX

  October 2010 - June 2011

  This involved setting up the face with a variety of different systems to create a anatomically correct facial rig. Developed and supported characters on Planet of the Apes, Tintin and The Hobbit.

  
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  Creatures TD - Cloth Simulation

  Wētā FX

  January 2010 - October 2010

  This involved taking 3D clothing models and setting them up to simulate correctly with nCloth for Tintin
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  Lighting TD

  Sauce FX

  November 2009 - December 2009

  Setup the lighting rigs and rendered the Birds for the Karori Reserve short film.
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  Lighting TD

  Wētā FX

  May 2009 - November 2009

  Set up and optimised scenes for Avatar - Quaritch Fight and Leonoptrix chase sequences. Then added lighting and rendered them. I also was able to comp some of my work for dailies to help the 2D team when they were slammed.
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  Compositor

  Double Negative

  September 2005 - December 2008

  Added 3D characters and backgrounds to live action films. Worked on The Reaping, Children of Men, 10000BC, Harry Potter Order of the Phoenix, 007 Quantum of Solace, Batman The Dark Knight and Angels And Demons.
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  Roto Paint Artist

  Wētā FX

  February 2004 - November 2004

  Worked on Lord of the Rings - Return of the King doing a variety of clean up
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  Data Wrangler

  Wētā FX

  February 2003 - February 2004

  Managed all the data being created during the Lord of the Rings Two Towers film. Also coded warning programs for the file servers and data management programs.