siam shukoor

Work History

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  Compositing Lead

  Flying Bark Productions

  May 2022 - March 2023

  Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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  Senior Compositor

  Monsters Aliens Robots Zombies VFX

  May 2022 - July 2022

  Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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  Digital Compositor

  Luma Pictures

  July 2021 - April 2022

  Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

  Spiderman: No way Home
  Baz Luhrmann’s ELVIS
  Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

  
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  Senior Compositor

  Arx Anima

  April 2021 - June 2021

  Vienna, Austria
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  Digital Compositor

  Jellyfish Pictures

  December 2020 - March 2021

  London, England, United Kingdom
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  Senior Compositor

  Double Negative

  April 2020 - December 2020

  Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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  Digital Compositor

  Animal Logic

  August 2019 - February 2020

  Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

  Peter Rabbit-2
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  Senior Compositor - The Mill

  The Mill

  January 2017 - August 2019

  Bengaluru Area, India

  LEXUS - One Track Mind
  SKY SPORTS - Formula 1 Title Sequence
  JAY PRINCE - Beamlight
  HUAWEI - Laya Twilight
  FORMULA E - Battle Scars
  THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS - Free Yourself
  LEAGUE OF LEGENDS - Escalation
  LEAGUE OF LEGENDS - Born to Spin
  THREE - Runway
  EASTBAY - Be The Hunted
  AMAZON - Give ChristmasI Promise
  RADIOHEAD - I Promise
  HBO - It's What Connects Us
  
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  IMF Artist - Compositor

  DreamWorks Animation India Unit

  August 2015 - December 2016

  Bengaluru Area, India

  Kung fu Panda-3
  Trolls
  Boss Baby
  
  Roles and responsibilities
  ● Image finalling is a process where a composting artist will be doing fixes\polish on the creatively approved final rendered images.
  ● The common tool sets are Nuke and Photoshop.
  ● The artist would be performing tracking, stabilizing,roto shaping and cleverly isolating the masks to achieve the desired results.
  ● Having a good understanding of the math (color) to perform the color corrections to resolve the issue is paramount.
  ● All Image Finalers take feedback from supervisors and artistic leads to correct or enhance footage.
  ● Image Finalers may be asked to address stereoscopic discrepancies which cannot be fixed by other departments.
  ● Photoshop is used frequently by finalers to fix and enhance large resolution still images for commercial products and posters. The most common fixes could be in the range of: Removing shadow\ lighting artifacts Clearing\Filling Motion blur artifacts Creating character contact shadows Removing Matte lines Darkening\Brightening the inner mouth for the characters Fixing\ Removing the texture and shadow pops Controlling the value structure of the specular\reflection brightness. Using an area from the shot, to fix something else (offset) Denoise and Simple projections 3D Projections on a moving geometry.
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  Lead Compositor

  Adeyes Productions

  August 2013 - August 2015

  Thiruvananthapuram Area, India

  Constructing the final image by combining layers of previously-created material, including rendered computer animation, FX, graphics, and static background plates. Ensure that the levels combine together seamlessly, and creating mattes where necessary.Enhance the lighting, match blacks and other color levels, add grain where required, add motion blur where required, and create convincing shadows. Work closely with the FX and Lighting Artists to develop compositing strategies and achieve an aesthetically balanced overall look. Guiding and Mentoring Junior team members. Understanding of various composition techniques. Knowledge of the cinematography principles including depth of field, density, use of filters. Ability to light characters and environments, interior and exterior, different times of day, etc. Good technical knowledge of how 3D lighting works in order to understand the 'multi passes' that the Lighters create.
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  Senior Compositor

  Prana Studios

  February 2013 - August 2013

  Mumbai Area, India

  Develop creative approaches, computer graphic elements, miniature and CGI sources, seamlessly integrate all the layers. To seamlessly integrate all the layers or elements of a shot, including live-action and computer graphic elements. Needs To Do Blue / green screen extractions. Seamless integration of live action, miniature and CGI sources.
  Take part in client reviews and follow production methodologies.
  
  Develop creative approaches and problem-solving Constantly deliver excellent results with minimal supervision.
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  Lead Compositor

  Adeyes Productions

  November 2011 - February 2013

  Trivandrum,Kerala

  Managing the team, shot allocation, shot approvals, solving technical and creative issues, creating gizmos and python scripts.

• Lead Compositor

  Accel Animation

  December 2008 - November 2011

  Trivandrum, Kerala
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  Digital Compositor

  BIG Animation (I) Pvt. Ltd.

  October 2007 - October 2008

  Pune Area, India
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  Digital Compositor

  Toonz Animation India Pvt Ltd

  October 2005 - October 2007

• 3D Artist

  Chrysalis Communications Pvt Ltd

  January 2005 - October 2005

  Thiruvananthapuram Area, India

  modelling, texturing, rigging, animation, lighting, rendering, compositing