Ido Banai

Ido Banai

Chief Executive Officer at Plenoptic Cognition

Supervisor Digital Compositor / 19 yrs

Pai, Mae Hong Son, Thailand.

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Compositor

Joker (2019)

Visual Effects Artist

Tomorrowland (2015)

Stereographer

X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)

Compositor

Greetings from Tim Buckley (2013)

Stereoscopic Technical Director

Immortals (2011)

Stereoscopic Supervisor

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010)

Stereoscopic Lead Artist

My Soul to Take (2010)

Stereoscopic Compositor

Clash of the Titans (2010)

Tracker

Avatar (2009)

Digital Compositor

Men of a Certain Age (2009)

Digital Compositor

V (2009)

Compositor

Royal Pains (2009)

Flame Artist

X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)

Digital Compositor

Lie to Me (2009)

Flame Artist

Wanted (2009)

Digital Compositor

Crazy Girls Undercover (2008)

Digital Compositor

Eleventh Hour (2008)

Digital Compositor

Fringe (2008)

Digital Compositor

Fear Itself (2008)

Digital Compositor

Eli Stone (2008)

Flame Artist

The Incredible Hulk (2008)

Digital Compositor

Life (2007)

Digital Compositor

Gossip Girl (2007)

Digital Compositor

Medium (2005)

Digital Compositor

CSI (2000)

I've spent over 15 years working across the globe helping create movie magic.
Doing everything from compositing to pipeline design and production management.

I am looking for remote work opportunities
with all the ongoing Covid19 craziness.
Free to help with Comp work, Houdini/FX work and Unreal work as well as pre prod, R&D and biz dev.

I am in the process of scaling up my new studio in Thailand for Animation and Virtual production using Unreal.
We have tons of cheap 1GB fiber line and would love to start taking on more remote work.
Work History

  • CEO/Founder

    VectorField Co-Operative

    December 2020 - Present
    Los Angeles, California, United States · Remote

    Helping evolve work for hire for digital artists.

  • Chief Executive Officer

    Plenoptic Cognition

    February 2018 - Present
    Pai, Mae Hong Son, Thailand

    Pioneering technology in the field of Digital Optogenetics

  • Consultant

    GHSU3D

    2010 - 2018
    Worldwide Consulting services

    I have been providing VR/AR, stereo conversion, digital production management, VFX/Stereo pipeline design and business sustainability consulting services to a host of Film studios and VFX studios over the past 8 years.

  • Pipeline Designer/ Senior Compositor

    Exlibris Productions

    June 2015 - October 2015

    Pipeline Designer/TD, Senior Compositor.

  • Stereo Compositor

    Animal Logic

    2013 - 2013

  • Stereographer/Stereoscopic Technical Director/Digital Producer

    3DCG: The Stereo Consulting Group

    January 2011 - July 2011
    Worldwide

    Acting Stereographer along side Jonathan Banta and Dave Stump on a yet to be released feature film.
    Insuring both quality and artistic direction of the stereo conversion of the film from multiple conversion companies around the world.
    Was Also responsible for working with all VFX studios on the film and the production its self to generate and deliver all VFX Stereoscopic elements for the conversion companies to assist in creating the final converted image.

  • Professor

    FXPHD

    January 2011 - April 2011

    Teaching a course about Stereo conversion goodness!

  • ViewD Lead Compositor

    Prime Focus World

    September 2009 - January 2011

    Was a tracking&layout; artist for AVATAR

    Then moved onto the R&D/Testing team for 6 month,
    Working on undisclosed client tests.
    then went on to Lead/sup/train and setup a new Conversion department in India for another 6 month.
    did conversion work for Clash of the titans, Cats&dogs;, Shrek, My Soul To take and Narnia while there.
    as well as many more client tests and projects that are still ongoing.

  • Flame Artist

    Lola Visual Effects

    2008 - 2010

    Worked on as a Flame artist various Feature films including Xmen-Wolverine, Fired up

  • Compositor

    Engine Room

    2009 - 2009

  • Compositor

    Zoic Studios

    2008 - 2009

    Worked as a compositor on Episodic, Feature and TVC projects. including Fringe, V and CSI. Mainly on AE, some TVC work on Flame and a fair bit of Tracking/performance transfer work in Syntheyes

  • Freelance Vfx artist

    Hi-Ground Media

    2008 - 2008

    Worked on TVC Episodic and Music Videos, on both Flame and AE

  • Flame Artist

    Hydraulx

    2008 - 2008

    Flame Artist on Wanted, the incredible hulk and several Music Videos.

  • Freelance VFX artist

    M2G Media

    2006 - 2008

    Did a mixed bag of Online editorial work and VFX work including motion graphics, Color timing and CGFX

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Education

  • fxPhd

    2005 - 2011

  • Gnomon School of Visual Effects

    2005 - 2008