Tamara Mitchell

Digital Compositor / Compositing Supervisor

Tamara Mitchell Compositing Reel December 2014

Mar 23, 2015

Compositing Reel December 2014

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Compositor

Integration of CG sentinal, stadium, trees and other set dressing. Fx smoke and dust. Green screen extraction. Use of ocula for stereo colour matching and verticle alignment.
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Compositor

Green screen extraction. Integration of CG stadium and matte painting projections of stadium details. Fx smoke and dust. Stereo colour matching and verticle alignment.
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X-Men: Days of Future Past

Integration of CG stadium, trees, rocks and stadium matte painting projections. Fx smoke and dust. Supervision on stereo paint work to remove seams and retime artifacting on mystiques blue suit and magnetos helmet. Green screen extraction. Stereo colour matching and verticle alignment.
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Compositor

Integration of CG stadium, trees, rocks and scaffolding. Fx smoke and dust. 2D tracers and illumination matched to on-set explosions. Green screen extraction. Stereo colour matching and verticle alignment.
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X-Men: Days of Future Past

Original plate had bounce card reflections covering most of the sunglass lenses. Stereo colour matching and verticle alignment.
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X-Men: Days of Future Past

Green screen extraction. Integration of skydome and CG trees. Added 2D distortion to create wind movement in the tree branches. Mystique eye transformations using CG textures. Stereo colour matching and verticle alignment.
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Compositor

CG droid - integration of BG slum extention -
MP integration for dusty hand prints on prop ship - live action dust and smoke elements for gun fire and droid kicking up dust - cam shake to match gun fire. Muzzle flashes by another artist.
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Compositor

Gantry fight scene. I did 15 shots like this from different angles. The gantry environment was mostly matte painting projections with the exception of a few CG structures.
Integration of where the set met the DMP - CG tree top extentions - CG blowing debris - live action spark elements for metal collision impact and lense flares.
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Jack the Giant Slayer

Green screen extraction - integration of CG giants, CG bridge & CG smoke.
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Jack the Giant Slayer

Blue screen extraction - CG giants - CG bean converged in comp to match hands in stereo plate - animated focus pull in comp - stereo paint fixes on BG plate.
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Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance

GR’s CG flaming skull, chest and fire light reflections. Plateprep was done by junior artists in mono (centre eye) then dimentionalised by another vendor. This shot was particularly challenging to composite in stereo due to the mattes being incorrect before it was dimentionalised. The bonnet, shards of broken glass, and Carigans wind blown hairs we
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Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance

Continuity of GR’s look in night and day time settings. Integration of GR’s CG skull, skull fire, skull smoke, chest skeleton, chest fire and chest smoke FX. Headlight flare effects were created in nuke. Carrigan’s fire and smoke was done by another artist who finished the shot as carrigans FX were still outstanding when I finished GR.
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Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance

Integrated Ghost Riders CG skull, skull fire, skull smoke, chest fire, chest smoke, wrist flames and bubbling/melting leather FX. BG set extention. BG ground fire and smoke.
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Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

Blackbeards smuldering dreadlocks. Integration of CG burning embers and smoke FX in an evolving stereo pipeline. Sole compositor responsible for sequence of approx 15 shots under supervisors guidance. Training Junior roto artists and overseeing their work.
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Red Tails

This shot was created using two plates joining at the middle of the hospital. The jeep was patched together from a third shot in which only a portion of it was visible as it drove inbetween obscuring objects. The dirt road was replaced with tarmac that was tiled from referenece photos. The interior of the hospital was created with elements from oth
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Red Tails

Removal of performance of screen left charcter, seamlessly replaced by blue screen performance. The window replacement for these shots was a still panorama patched from a moving shot and then projected in 3D.
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Red Tails

Integration of CG army base extention. CG trucks, tents, crates and other set dressing. Paint work to remove unwanted objects and integrate matte painted lanscape.
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Red Tails

Integration of matte painted ground snow extentions and CG falling snow. Creation of Torchlight effects and muzzle flashes in nuke.
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

Greenscreen background Replacement. Integration of matte painted background and set extention as well as live action dust and smoke elements.

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