Mitch Crease

Mitch Crease

Canadian Permanent Resident

Senior Digital Compositor / 14 yrs

Vancouver, Canada

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Visual Effects Artist

John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023)

Compositor

The Silence (2019)

Compositor

Polar (2019)

Digital Compositor

Roma (2018)

Digital Compositor

Creed II (2018)

Digital Effects

Gold (2018)

Digital Compositor

Fahrenheit 451 (2018)

Visual Effects Artist

The Program (2018)

Visual Effects Supervisor

The Curse (2018)

Digital Compositor

King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017)

Digital Compositor

American Gods (2017)

Compositor

Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2017)

A Monster Calls (2017)

Digital Compositor

The Legend of Tarzan (2016)

Digital Compositor

X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)

Visual Effects Artist

The Silent Storm (2016)

Digital Compositor

The Finest Hours (2016)

Lead VFX Artist

MI-5 (2015)

Digital Compositor

Pan (2015)

Digital Artist

The Martian (2015)

Compositor

Suffragette (2015)

Lead VFX Artist

Far from the Madding Crowd (2015)

Visual Effects Artist

Black Sea (2015)

Visual Effects Artist

Paddington (2015)

Visual Effects Artist

The Theory Of Everything (2014)

Visual Effects Artist

'71 (2014)

Visual Effects Artist

Babylon (2014)

Digital Effects

Coconut Shy (2013)

VFX Artist

Philomena (2013)

Visual Effects Artist

How I Live Now (2013)

Digital Effects

The Square Orbit (2013)

Compositor / Visual Effects Artist

Da Vinci's Demons (2013)

Visual Effects Artist

Hyde Park on Hudson (2013)

Digital Compositor

The Woman in Black (2012)

Digital Compositor

Harry Potter and Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)

Digital Compositor

Godless (2011)

VFX Artist

Trance (2010)

Senior Compositor, with 10+ years feature film experience.

Technical Skills:

• CG compositing
• Chroma keying
• Colour correction
• Deep Compositing
• Native Stereo Compositing
• 3D camera tracking projection
Work History
  • Senior Compositor

    FuseFX

    July 2021 - Present
    Vancouver
  • Senior Compositor

    Mr. X

    May 2016 - July 2021
    Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  • Compositor

    MPC

    December 2014 - December 2015
    Montreal, Quebec, Canada

    In my time at MPC Film Montreal I have had the pleasure of contributing visual effects to Legend of Tarzan, Pan, The Martian, The Finest Hours, A Monster Calls, Knights of the Roundtable: King Arthur and X-Men: Apocalypse.

  • Visual Effects Artist/Lead Compositor

    Union Visual Effects

    January 2011 - December 2014
    London, United Kingdom

    Whilst at Union VFX I worked on the following projects:

    Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 (dir David Yates), The Woman in Black (dir James Watkins), Hyde Park on Hudson (dir Roger Michell), Trance (dir Danny Boyle), Philomena (dir Stephen Frears), How I Live Now (dir Kevin Macdonald), ‘71 (dir Yann Demange), The Theory Of Everything (dir James Marsh), The Silent Storm (dir Corinna McFarlane), Black Sea (dir Kevin Macdonald), The Program (dir Stephen Frears), Far From The Madding Crowd (dir Thomas Vinterberg), Paddington (dir Paul King), Spooks: The Greater Good (dir Bharat Nalluri).

    Also, in 2012, I supervised the visual effects for The Curse, a short film by director Fyzal Boulifa. The Curse has gone on to pick up a BAFTA nomination for Best Short Film and win the Illy Prize for Best Short Film at Directors' Fortnight, Cannes Film Festival 2012, as well as Best Film, Fujifilm Shorts 2012 and the Golden Starfish for Best Short at the 2012 Hamptons International Film Festival.

    For the London 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony, Isles of Wonder, I completed 48 shots mainly for the Happy and Glorious sequence, featuring Queen Elizabeth II and Daniel Craig as James Bond.

    imdb.com/name/nm4519879/
    https://vimeo.com/141342650
    unionvfx.com

  • Publisher

    Wool Media

    July 2010 - June 2012
  • Designer

    IPC Media

    April 2011 - May 2011
  • Art Director

    Interactive Publishing Plc

    June 2006 - June 2010
  • Art Director

    Q3 Media

    September 2004 - June 2006
Education
  • Compositing for Production in visual effects compositing, film

    Escape Studios

    2011 - 2011
  • BSc in Geology

    University of Southampton

    1996 - 2000