Aaron Kupferman

Digital Compositor

Aaron Kupferman Compositing Reel 2014

Aug 16, 2015 •

0:04-0:06

The Amazing Spider-Man 2

Senior Compositor

One of the original "Times Square" sequence shots of the movie. Helped establish the look of the sequence.

Tools: Nuke
0:06-0:29

The Amazing Spider-Man 2

Senior Compositor

Largest shot of the movie. Combined complicated live action footage with a large amount of CG elements. 6 month long shot.

Tools: Nuke
0:29-0:41

The Amazing Spider-Man 2

Senior Compositor

Comped this very large and complicated Times Square explosion shot with gobs of lighting and FX elements.

Tools: Nuke
0:41-0:46

The Amazing Spider-Man 2

Senior Compositor

Comped skin effect and background. Skin effect has complex interactions with real skin and CG elements.

Tools: Nuke
0:46-0:51

The Amazing Spider-Man 2

Senior Compositor

Comped CG background, CG and practical smoke elements, and skin/spark treatments.

Tools: Nuke
0:51-1:07

Oz the Great and Powerful

Senior Compositor

Composited live action people into CG environment. CG env needed lots of balancing out of lighting, and plate people needed light interaction and ground interaction added.

Tools: Nuke
1:07-1:20

Oz the Great and Powerful

Senior Compositor

Composed life action horses, cart, and soldiers into CG environment. Heavy shaping of rendered elements was needed to create cohesive look.

Tools: Nuke
1:20-1:24

Oz the Great and Powerful

Senior Compositor

Composited live action foreground, live action crowd, CG crowd, and several FX fire renders into shot. FX fire renders never quite looked/worked right, so I combined the best of several of them in this shot.

Tools: Nuke
1:24-1:29

Oz the Great and Powerful

Senior Compositor

Combined various CG elements, live action waterfall, CG waterfall, and mtpnt sky into shot.

Tools: Nuke
1:29-1:38

Oz the Great and Powerful

Senior Compositor

Right and left sides of bg corn stalks are from different plates, both with differently moving cameras. Combined them into wider shot along with more CG corn stalks. Foreground is also CG along with several characters.

Tools: Nuke
1:38-1:44

The Amazing Spider-Man

Lead Compositor

Along with leading a team of around a dozen, I also established the look of the sequence with this fully CG shot. What's funny is that the sky color is what the client spent the most time dialing back and forth.

Tools: Nuke
1:44-1:47

The Amazing Spider-Man

Lead Compositor

Along with leading a team of around a dozen, I composited this all CG shot and dialed it heavily from what the renders looked like.

Tools: Nuke
1:47-1:50

The Amazing Spider-Man

Lead Compositor

Along with leading a team of around a dozen I composted this all CG shot and dialed it heavily from what the renders looked like.

Tools: Nuke
1:50-1:54

The Amazing Spider-Man

Lead Compositor

Composited FG plate and CG background.

Tools: Nuke
1:54-1:57

The Amazing Spider-Man

Lead Compositor

Composited both internally rendered elements and elements from another vendor (of course rendered with a different world space and other settings) into this shot.

Tools: Nuke
1:57-2:00

Green Lantern

Senior Compositor and Lighter

Had never lit before this show. Learned lighting in Katana and lit and rendered all elements. Then I composited the shot and created complex glow plasma look from very simple FX elements.

Tools: Nuke & Katana
2:00-2:04

Green Lantern

Senior Compoitor and Lighter

Lit and composited all three of the shots in this sequence. In Katana I established the look of interior of ship and even did material edits to create desired look. Then I composited the shot and created the glow plasma explosion look from simple FX elements.

Tools: Nuke & Katana
2:04-2:06

Green Lantern

Senior Compositor and Lighter

Lit and composited CG elements and live action plate into shot. Fire required combining several elements, and "lantern" effect required a lot of hand tuning.

Tools: Nuke & Katana
2:06-2:11

Green Lantern

Senior Compositor and Lighter

Lit and composited all elements for these two shots. "Parallax" character required balancing a large number of passes for each shot.

Tools: Nuke & Katana
2:11-2:16

Alice in Wonderland

Lead Compositor

Led a team of nearly 20 artists on several large sequences, one of which was nominated for Best Compositing in a Feature at the VES awards. Established a lot of the "looks" in the Throne Room, and created templates for use by the entire team.

Tools: Katana (Compositing)
2:16-2:21

Alice in Wonderland

Lead Compositor

Composited CG pig into live action plates with additional CG BG elements. Lots of integration on pig and foot interaction.

Tools: Katana (Compositing)
2:21-2:31

Alice in Wonderland

Lead Compositor

Established look and composited shots. Worked closely with Ken Ralston (Senior VFX Sup) on looks. Ken said at the end of the show that I was one of the few people on the show who's eye he trusted.

Tools: Katana (Compositing)
2:31-2:39

Alice in Wonderland

Lead Compositor

Established "macro" look for this sequence and composited this shot as an establishing and reference shot. Live action Alice and part of wall, and CG everything else. Custom optical treatment created.

Tools: Katana (Compositing)
2:39-2:40

Alice in Wonderland

Lead Compositor

Composited live action, CG, and mtpnt elements into shot. Inherited shot from Cafe FX and created new look.

Tools: Katana (Compositing)
2:40-2:45

Alice in Wonderland

Lead Compositor

Composited live action Alice into CG environment and gave shot a macro look. Screen was anything but clean and required a lot of work.

Tools: Katana (Compositing)
2:45-2:51

Alvin and the Chipmunks

Lead Compositor

Lead Compositor for team of around 15 artists, most of which were quite green. Did lots of training and our team did quite well.

Also created the entire template for Theo's glasses and the lens refraction. Template was pretty much plug and play independent of what the glass was refracting behind it (plate, CG, itself, etc).

Tools: Icy
2:51-2:54

Alvin and the Chipmunks

Lead Compositor

Composited CG character into live action scene with lots of integration including shadows and reflections.

Tools: Icy
2:54-2:56

Alvin and the Chipmunks

Lead Compositor

Created custom Matrix effect and composited elements.

Tools: Icy
2:56-3:02

Night at the Museum

Compositor

Composited three live action plates, a dozen CG animals, and the shadows and reflections of all of these animals between the live action people. I also did four other of these shots without the camera move at the beginning.

Tools: Icy
3:02-3:14

Pan's Labyrinth

Compositor

Composited CG and live action elements together on this beautiful movie.

Tools: Fusion
3:14-3:17

Pan's Labyrinth

Compositor

Created impact in comp and added muzzle flash.

Tools: Fusion
3:17-3:26

Pontiac Spy Hunter Commercial

Compoitor

Created look and composited various CG elements together into the two hero shots of the commercial.

Tools: Nuke
3:26-3:32

Pontiac Mine Commercial

Compositor

Composited all CG elements into photo real but surreal shots. I took the renders a long way from their raw form to achieve the final look.

Tools: Nuke
3:32-3:39

MLB All Star Commerial

Lead Compositor

Composited live action, CG, and mtpnt elements into cohesive shots. Established look for all other shots on the project.

Tools: After Effects
3:39-3:43

Fox Sports

Compositor

Created graphics and treated footage on several FSN packages.

Tools: After Effects

Comments (1)

James Bennett
Amazing reel!

124 months ago

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