Galina Yakovleva

Work History

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  Digital Compositor

  BlueBolt

  June 2021 - August 2025

  London, England, United Kingdom

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
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  Freelance On-set VFX Supervisor, Digital Compositor

  Freelance

  March 2018 - June 2021

  Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation

  I create, organize, supervise and execute visual effects for Feature Film & TV industry.
  I can work at any project stage: from a script VFX-breakdown and developing the VFX solutions for any shot up to complete the visual effects work in the final months of post-production. I can also join the project as consulting VFX-Supervisor, helping with pre-production, on-set shooting, and CGI development.

• On-set VFX Supervisor, Digital Compositor

  9Pandas

  January 2020 - February 2020

  Saint-Petersburg, Russia

  Project: Advertising commercial video "Success story" for 1XBet brand.
  Production Agency: https://9pandas.ru/en/
  
  My job as On-Set VFX Supervisor was to help to develop the shooting process during the final stage of pre-production. After the script breakdown, we have made some significant changes, which made the idea completely possible and secure.
  
  During the filming process, I was supporting the process, adapting to changes, helping the film crew working seamlessly, to be supported with the advantages of VFX techniques. Also, I was shooting the additional background footage on the FIFA footbal stadium.
  
  During post-production, I joined the compositing team for helping to finish the VFX in 5 days deadline.

• Digital Compositor

  Argunov Studio

  September 2019 - November 2019

  Saint-Petersburg, Russia

  Project: sci-fi adventure feature film "Coma" (2019)
  
  My job as a remote freelance compositor was to complete the VFX shots, combining together live-action footage, roto, CG renders, and 2D footage.
  
  I was working on 3 wide-angle shots for this movie. One of them is mentioned in this VFX-Breakdown.

  

• Compositing Supervisor

  September Film Studio

  March 2018 - August 2019

  Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation · On-site

  Project: feature war thriller "Siege Diary" (2021)
  
  My job was to lead the compositing department at the small VFX-studio. The main goal for the 10-artists VFX crew was to create the CG-destructed city streets of Saint-Petersburg based on the real buildings and iconic locations.
  
  I worked directly with the film director, film producer and VFX producers on the creative development of the shot layouts and all the aspects of compositing solutions for the VFX shots. Also, I was teaching and mentoring junior compositors and roto artists. My working responsibilities included building the master scripts for the other comp artists in the crew and executing the challenging compositing tasks by myself.
  
  In most cases, a compositing shot resulted in a combination of greenscreen live-action footage, comp-based 3D texturing enhancement, the simulated geometry and particle systems, matte-painted objects and architecture CG-renders.
  
  Due to the pandemic, the release date was delayed, but we were lucky to finish the job before COVID-19 broke out.
  
  Mentioned in the credits as Lead Compositor based on the local understanding of the pipeline.
  
  The final movie had a theatrical release and received a certain recognition at festivals. For example, winning the "Best Film" and the "Audience Award Winner" categories at the 2020 Moscow International Film Festival.
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  Intensive Course Instructor in Digital Compositing

  RealTime School

  March 2019 - March 2019

  Moscow, Russia · On-site

  Teaching students digital compositing for Nuke in the format of a 40-hour intensive course.
  I have designed the learning program and course files exclusively for this event.

• Pre-production & On-set VFX Supervisor, Digital Compositor

  scandinava

  July 2017 - January 2018

  Saint-Petersburg, Russia

  Project: adventure feature film "Tanks" dir. Kim Druzhinin (2018)
  
  My job as a full-cycle VFX-Supervisor was to develop the VFX solution for the scene with tight collaboration with film crew key members.
  During the principal photography, I joined the film expedition to support the film crew with new solutions during any unplanned situations and to keep the VFX plan reachable. Also, I was gathering all the survey data for the VFX crew, including shooting the high-resolution DSLR HDRI panoramas, textures, measurements, references, and 2D footages.
  
  During post-production, I joined the compositing team to help meeting VFX deadlines, creating invisible photo-realistic VFX, including 3D DMP, CG integration, adding the atmospheric effects, and removing the unwanted elements.

• On-set & post-production VFX Supervisor, Digital Compositor

  scandinava

  December 2016 - October 2017

  Saint-Petersburg, Russia

  Project:
  12 episodes tv-series "Wings of the Empire", dir. Igor Kopylov (2017)
  National prime-time release at "Channel 1 Russia".
  
  This fiction drama in a historical environment required some practical FX solutions, miniatures shooting, and a lot of invisible VFX to hide any modern influence out from the real-existing rich range of architecture in Saint-Petersburg.
  
  As pre-production VFX-Supervisor my job was to breakdown the script with key film crew members, to prepare the shooting process from the VFX-facility side.
  
  During the filming process, I was supporting the film crew on 63 shooting days, including the film expedition, adapting the shooting process to the creative practical approach for keeping the VFX-workflow within the same budget. Also, I was collecting the survey data for the VFX crew, shooting textures, VFX-footages, and references.
  
  Due the sequence-based schedule of shooting and VFX-delivery, I was forced to work on post-production stages between the shooting days for other scenes. This made my decisions very non-linear and adaptive to the overall progress.
  
  During the last few months of the production, when the shooting days could be done without of on-set supervisor, I have taken the job of post-production VFX-Supervisor, delivering VFX of the series in collaboration with VFX-Editor and the film-company side post-production Producer.

• Digital Compositor

  scandinava

  December 2015 - October 2016

  Saint-Petersburg

  Project: feature war drama "Panfilov's 28" (rus. "28 Панфиловцев"), dir. A. Shalyopa & K. Druzhinin. 2016
  
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  VFX Artist

  Freelance

  September 2014 - December 2015

  Compositing, Rotoscoping, Object Removal, Stabilization, Motion Design, ...

• VFX-Artist, Compositor, Translator (voluntary)

  "The Last Book" film crew. dir. S. Malkov

  April 2015 - August 2015

  Saint-Petersburg

  Compositing, replacing objects in live action footage, stabilisation, matchmoving, rotoscoping. 18 different shots in a "non-visible" vfx type of work.
  Also I've translated the final film on english and equipted it with russian & english subtitles.
  
  Композитинг, замена объектов в съёмочном материале, стабилизация, матчмув, ротоскопинг. 18 различных кадров в режиме "невидимые спецэффекты".
  Также я перевела фильм на английский и снабдила русскими и английскими субтитрами.
  
  

• On-Set VFX Supervisor (voluntary)

  "I'm going to meet my brother" film crew, dir. A. Tsaryova

  June 2013 - May 2015

  Saint-Petersburg

  Adapting of the film set to needs of post-production process from planning of shot up to creation of the final shot render for editing. Assisted in creation of props and sets.
  Worked on 25 shooting days for this project.
  
  Адаптация съёмочной площадки под нужды пост-производства от планирования кадра до создания конечного рендера для монтажа. Также принимала участие в создании постановочного реквизита и декораций.
  Работала на 25 съемочных сменах на этом проекте.
  
  https://magellaan.wix.com/film

• Freelance Motion Graphic Designer

  Interda

  May 2013 - January 2014

  Saint-Petersburg, Russia

  Motion Design

• Motion Graphic Designer

  Interda

  April 2012 - May 2012

  Saint-Petersburg, Russia

  My job was to create & integrate graphics for the creation of the middle school online lessons for disabled children.