Josh Rivas

Digital Compositor

Josh Rivas Demo Reel Compositing Spring 2018

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Josh Rivas Demo Reel Compositing Spring 2018 720p

0:02-0:06

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales

Compositor

Sky replacement, Add Island in the BG, color grade ocean water to match new sky

Tools: Nuke
0:06-0:15

The Lego Ninjago Movie

Compositor

Composite multiple layers of CG characters together. Color grade fg characters and bg to add sense of depth. Add outdoor atmosphere. Add steam fx add heat distortion fx over lava

Tools: Nuke
0:15-0:16

Spider-Man: Homecoming

Compositor

Integerate cg Spider-Man & Vulture wings into live action plate. Add atmosphere to warehouse with dust and interactive lighting

Tools: Nuke
0:16-0:17

Spider-Man: Homecoming

Compositor

Add atmosphere dust interactive lighting to warehouse, integrate cg beer bottles on table with live action plate

Tools: Nuke
0:17-0:18

Spider-Man: Homecoming

Compositor

Integrate CG Spider-Man & Vulture wings into live action plate. Add atmosphere dust and interactive lighting to warehouse.

Tools: Nuke
0:18-0:21

Sully

Compositor

Sky replacement. City skyline replacement. Integrate CG Propellers to helicopter.

Tools: Nuke
0:21-0:25

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales

Compositor

Pull key on bg bluescreen. Integrate CG Pirate ship in bg and CG Captain Salazar to live action plate. Did a face replacement on CG Salazar. Add explosion debris and lighting fx to match plate explosion.

Tools: Nuke
0:25-0:28

X-Men: Apocalypse

Compositor

Pull key on greenscreen. Integrate BG with live action plate. Add billowing plumes of smoke in bg. Color grade pyramid. Add twisting metal arch in bg.

Tools: Nuke
0:28-0:33

Epic

Compositor

Composite multiple layers of CG characters together. Color grade fg characters and bg to add sense of depth. Soften lighting to feel more outdoors. Add outdoor atmosphere.

Tools: Nuke
0:33-0:36

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales

Compositor

Inside of cg ship (SL) was not rendered. Gaping holes between wooden planks were empty. 3d projected geometry for inside of ship to provide parallax and depth. Integrated cg water fx splashing below Jack. Integrate CG canons characters are jumping between. Integrate stock footage water dripping from sides of ships to look more wet.

Tools: Nuke
0:36-0:40

Spider-Man: Homecoming

Compositor

Integrated CG environment of debris and falling dust with live action plate. Add stock footage dust and falling debris. Developed overall look for this shot that was adopted by sequence and incorporated all corresponding shots.

Tools: Nuke
0:40-0:42

Sully

Compositor

Pull bluescreen key. Integrate/color grade cg sea water and city skyline in bg. Add stock footage water mist/haze overtaking plane after landing. Add stock footage water dripping from windows and add water distortion effect. Created a "water dripping effect" Template by using 3D cameras projecting onto window geometry for the cockpit windows this sequence for other artists.

Tools: Nuke
0:42-0:44

X-Men: Apocalypse

Compositor

Pull greenscreen. Add dust, smoke, debris, twisting metal arch to bg. White effect on eyes.

Tools: Nuke
0:44-0:46

The Lego Ninjago Movie

Compositor

Color grade environment. Add fog coming in over boat. Address stereo tech fix in sky/clouds matte painting by re-projecting and aligning them in 3D.

Tools: Nuke, Photoshop
0:46-0:48

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales

Compositor

Pull key on bluescreen. Completely re-worked this shots plate, it was a retake on a cloudy day with muted color tones and highlights with cooler shadows to match it's sequence that was shot on a bright sunny day with bright colors and highlights and dark shadows. Track from layout was not working properly so I was asked to track the environment in myself.

Tools: Nuke
0:48-0:50

X-Men: Apocalypse

Compositor

911 shot. Assigned after lunch and needed it done by end of day. I had no assets available from other departments this was done 100% in comp. Tracked the plate. Pull greenscreen key & did my own roto. Add BG interactive lighting effects to match plate. Remove tracking markers. Tracked his eyes added Beast orange and red eyes over top of plate and add interactive lighting. Vanity fixes on Beast costume/makeup that was coming undone around his mouth.

Tools: Nuke
0:50-0:53

Sully

Compositor

Integrate CG plane, ships and wake in the water to the plate.

Tools: Nuke
0:53-0:57

Epic

Compositor

Composite multiple layers of CG characters together. Color grade fg characters and bg to add sense of depth. Soften lighting to feel more outdoors. Add outdoor atmosphere.

Tools: Nuke
0:57-1:02

Spider-Man: Homecoming

Compositor

This was 2 different takes of Tom Holland's acting. They liked the 1st half of one and the 2nd half of another. I had to align the 2 shots and warp and blend the ending of the first take with the beginning of the 2nd take. The result is the two shots stitched together as one seamless shot. Integrate CG environment with live action plate. Add dust and debris falling.

Tools: Nuke
1:02-1:04

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales

Compositor

Pulled key on bluescreen. Add smoke and embers.

Tools: Nuke
1:04-1:08

The Peanuts Movie

Compositor

Composite multiple layers of CG characters together. Color grade fg characters and bg to add sense of depth. Soften lighting to feel more volumetric.

Tools: Nuke
1:08-1:13

X-Men: Apocalypse

Compositor

Pull key on greenscreen. Helped develop look of Psylocke's telekinetic katana. 2 different versons. One is before and one is after Apocalypse increases her powers. I helped developed the look of the later.

Tools: Nuke
1:13-1:15

Spider-Man: Homecoming

Compositor

I comped the trailer version of this shot. I comped the sky and city bg environment. Add twinkle to the city lights. Added wispy clouds behind plane wing. Add condensation trails to wing. Interactive lighting from fire. Later for the final film version another artists ended up adding the cloaking effect and an updated cg spider web.

Tools: Nuke
1:15-1:19

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales

Compositor

Sky replacement, color grade sea water to match. Add CG lighthouse and integrate it with the plate. Created by hand the palm trees surrounding the lighthouse and animated the branches slightly swaying from the breeze and 3d projected them onto cards and comped them into the scene to track properly.

Tools: Nuke
1:19-1:24

The Lego Ninjago Movie

Compositor

Composite multiple layers of CG characters together. Color grade fg characters and bg to add sense of depth. Add outdoor atmosphere. Add steam fx add heat distortion fx over lava. Add interactive lighting to eruption explosion.

Tools: Nuke

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