2016 Show Reel

Apr 3, 2017 • 1 like

work completed at ReelFX Creative Studios from 2011 - 2016

0:07-0:19

The Book of Life

Lighting / Compositing Artist

The flaming, giant skeleton bull was a huge challenge. The fire sim was often broken, and required far too many resources to fix. We ended up using a huge array of compositing techniques to blend frames of the fire to make it appear as if it was a continuous sim.

Tools: Houdini / Mantra
0:19-0:27

The Book of Life

Lighting / Compositing Artist

The Land of the Remembered was a joy to work in, and a terrifying, difficult challenge as well. We all worked incredibly hard to achieve Jorge's vision on a shoestring budget.

Tools: Houdini / Mantra / NUKE
0:27-0:44

The Book of Life

Lighting / Compositing Artist

San Angel and its outskirts provided a dynamic range of lighting scenarios, from full daylight to full moon. The Sergio Leone feel of the town was a blast to develop.

Tools: Houdini / Mantra / NUKE
0:44-1:03

Rock Dog

Lighting / Compositing Artist

For the stage lighting in this scene, I wrote a fully-fledged step-sequencer and control rig which allowed two non-animators to choreograph more than 300 lights in a couple of weeks.

Tools: Maya / Arnold / NUKE
1:03-1:15

Rock Dog

Lighting / Compositing Artist

The white guitar room in these shots was a big challenge -- flat lighting, low saturation, and an implication of a huge amount of frosted glass (difficult to render)

Tools: Maya / Arnold / NUKE
1:15-1:37

Despicable Me: Minion Mayhem

Lighting / Compositing Artist

Elements from Minion Mayhem include portions of the ride and the instructional videos which play while parkgoers stand in line.

Tools: Maya / Renderman / NUKE
1:37-1:44

Free Birds

Lighting / Compositing Artist

Free Birds was my first feature film, and was a blast. Unfortunately, the shots in which I was given the opportunity to do master lighting for were all removed from the film.

Tools: Maya / Renderman / NUKE
1:45-1:54

Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas

Lighting / Compositing Artist

A Mammoth Christmas was a tremendous opportunity to stretch our creative capabilities, as we had very little budget and needed to match the quality and look of a major feature film.

Tools: Maya / Renderman / NUKE