Demo Reel Breakdown (In order of Appearance)
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty : Statue
Software: Nuke, Photoshop
Responsibilities: Compositing
Feature film work on The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2014) at Look Effects. Created clean plate.
Integrated 3D Statue with passes. Keyed and color corrected pigeon stock footage and
integrated into shot. 3D and tracking provided.
TURN (AMC) : New York 1770’s
Software: Nuke, Maya, Photoshop
Responsibilities: Compositing, 3D Modeling, Projection, Matte Painting
Episodic Work for AMC’s revolutionary war drama, TURN. Managed shot from previs to final
comp. Created base 3D models of buildings for layout in Maya. Basic textures and Geo was used
for projection inside nuke. Created matte painting using 3D as a base before re-projecting. Other
elements were comped in afterwards including ~30 various green screened groups, replacing
non period roof tiles and smoke elements.
TURN (AMC) : Day for Night
Software: Nuke, Photoshop
Responsibilities: Compositing
Episodic Work for AMC’s revolutionary war drama, TURN. Color corrected and masked various
sections of day time plate to make it appear like a nighttime shot. This included a sky
replacement, lights in windows and faking various camp fires within the shot.
Dropship Landing
Software: Nuke, Maya, Photoshop
Began with stock plate of helicopters. Clean plated. 3D Model from Turbosquid. Redid Textures,
3D materials and render passes. Composited in Nuke with additional smoke and dust elements
both practical and CG.
Sabotage: Train Wreck
Software: Nuke, Photoshop
Responsibilities: Compositing
Feature film work on Sabotage (2014) at Look Effects. Provided 3D passes of added debris, for
integration into plate.
Sabotage: Train Wrek #2
Software: Nuke, Photoshop
Responsibilities: Compositing
Feature film work on Sabotage (2014) at Look Effects. Provided 3D passes of added debris, for
integration into plate.
Sabotage: Phone Screen Replacement
Software: Nuke, Mocha, Photoshop
Responsibilities: Compositing, Tracking, Painting, Roto
Feature film work on Sabotage (2014) at Look Effects. Tracked screen to replace photos.
Animated swiping sequence and created various passes of reflection and dirt to integrate new
screen.
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty : Flyover
Software: Nuke, Photoshop
Responsibilities: Compositing
Feature film work on The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013) at Look Effects. 3D tracked shot to
add matte painting onto 3D cards to allow parallax throughout shot. Matte painting provided in
layers by matte painter. Final shot included retiming.
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty : Hiking
Software: Nuke, Photoshop
Responsibilities: Compositing/Matte Painting
Feature film work on The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013) at Look Effects. Created clean plate
by removing previous foot tracks. Created matte painting of mountain and added snow to plate
rocks.
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty : Snow Leopard
Software: Nuke, Photoshop
Responsibilities: Compositing/Matte Painting
Feature film work on The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013) at Look Effects. Created matte
painting of mountain and rocks from stock library elements. Roto of leopard provided by roto
artist. Color corrected and integrated roto’d leopard. Created “lens” type effects for telephoto
feel and camera HUD.
Robot Trainer
Software: Nuke, Photoshop, Maya
Shot started from stock footage. “Roboter” Robot rig by Niklas Wennersten and Andreas
Karlsson. Animation by Andrew Bangel. Materials created by myself, Rendered with Mental Ray.
Stock clip rotation tracked, projected onto sphere to create clean plate projection. Environment
was recreated for accurate lighting and reflections. Final composite re-projected to re-apply
camera movement.
Bunker Exploration
Software: Nuke, After Effects, Silhouette, Photoshop, Maya
Shot started with original green screen plate. Footage was tracked in Nuke. An environment was
modeled in Maya, textured, rendered then re-projected with additional textures and elements to
add realism while decreasing render time. Passes were combined in Nuke with the Green Screen
footage. Screen Keyed with Primematte and additional roto with Silhouette. Final Filters for lens
and color correction done in After Effects.
Middle East War Scene
Software: Nuke, After Effects, Silhouette, Photoshop, 3DS Max
Shot started as a stock clip of a training exercise from Highlight Films. Tracked in Nuke to
composite matte backdrop, replace sky and add other stock elements. Silhouette to roto-mask
the running soldiers. 3DS Max was used to create 3D Helicopters. Model provided by TurboSquid,
retextured by myself.
Cloudscape
Software: Nuke, Photoshop, Maya
Shot created for music video “All Eyes on You”. Used various matte painted cloud elements and
still 3D renders to build up vortex. Images were then warped to create spinning effect.
Software Experience Shown on Reel: Nuke, After Effects, Mocha, Photoshop, Silhouette, Boujou, Maya, 3DS Max