Hidden VFX

Added a kite and string to a sequence of shots. Retimed sea and character to create a sereal mood effect.

Set extensions, splitscreens and retimes to improve the comic timing.

Lots of blood and gore. Added blood to a swimming pool, various impalements and gun shots to various parts of the body.  Muzzle flashes, set extensions and adding rain.  Edited seven underwater shots to look like it was one continious shot.

2D and 3D compositing of elements.  Slave-1 CG compositing, replacing LED screens with CG backgrounds and DMPs.  Adding laser blasts, smoke and sparks.

Disemboweled women suspended in the air. Various gory shots with blood.

Rig removal from woman being pulled up and over a swimming pool.  Wire removals from cupboards. Flour footprints reveal walking across a floor.

Adding both CG and 2D elements to live action plates, including: Dragons, bells in the ceiling, and flames to a burning book.  Creating particles in Particle Illusion to create extra effects for Wayne the Sword.

Compositing live action plates with both CG and 2D elements including: flames, smoke, explosions, craters, DMPs and metros.  Also disintegrated people and did general rotoscoping and cleanup.

Compositing live action plates with DMPs.

Wire cleanup and head smash creation.

Cleanup work:  joining two conveyor belts to look like one, restoring changing lightening and lens flares.

Removing dirty floors and walls and production equipment.

Removed camera rigs/cranes and cameraman, and added glowing  wristbands and filled empty seats and floorspace with people.

Removing modern day vehicles, street signs and road markings. Removing multiple reflections from windows of cameras, crew and modern day items.

Removing satellite dishes, security cameras, broadband boxes and modern day extractor fans.  Adding extra trees to remove blue screen, gazebos and crew.

Added CG star field, windows, dirt, and holograms.  Lots of find details hair keys and removing spill from blue and green screen sets.  Added interactive hologram lighting.

Compositing CGI bees with live action plates.

Added lots of fake blood to actors and the ground of an underpass using projections.

Cleanup: removed people, footprints on a beach, ships, and a logo from a drum, and anything else to make it look like an isolated environment.  

Compositing a large bull from one field into another, after retiming and stabilizing.  I was also required to castrate the bull and stop it urinating!

Changing numbers plates, removing crew and making places look more remote.

Turing a London street into a New York one.

Greenscreen compositing, adding telephone wires to poles, compositing CGI into live action plates.  Removing modern day items, and rig removals.

Rig and wire removals.

I also supervised junior staff, created LUTS, and tech-checked shots.

Comping frozen breath, using particle simulation.  Leading a team of four.

Comping CGI creature into live action

plates. Rig removals and cleanup.

Screen inserts and rig removals.

Set extensions, comping CGI into live plates and rig removals.

Comping backgrounds, adding spit, changing afternoon to early morning.

Compositing backgrounds, and prep-work

Compositing backgrounds, and prep-work.

I was also a background extra is this film.

Paint and Rotoscoping: removing half of Harvey Dent's face in preparation for CGI face.

Paint and Rotoscoping.

Compositing set extensions, crowd replications, objects and rotoscoping.

Adding various components to make the timings and punchlines to the edit work better.

Set extensions, crowd duplications, adding blood and cleanup.  Used a mixture of 2D and 3D elements.

Adding blood and mucus to newly born baby.  Adding blood to actors.  Creating moving lift backgrounds, by adding passing floors and walls.

Removed tattoos from naked women. 2D compositing of backgrounds and adding atmosphere.

Adding both CG and 2D elements to live action plates including: an egg floating with chick gestation, Cora the Firedrake, and Diana's shimmer effect.  I also produced the particle effects for Diana's eyes in Particle Illusion.

Adding both CG and 2D elements to live action plates including: adding period lamp posts, blocks of flats, windows and cranes.  Removing modern days items from plates.  Creating a multilayer DMP of dilapidated buildings and projecting them back into 3D space.

Cleanup: removing people from shot to make it look desolate.

Wig line cleanup and adding gore.

Compositing live action plates with CG elements.

Rebuilding of a man's  neck and shoulder, to remove a woman standing in front of him.

Split screen retiming of women talking whilst watching a wrestling match.

Composited CG opening titles sequence.  Fixed CG render errors,  and made 2D live action rocks and debris to look like 3D animation.

Making a dummy covered in sand and dry fake blood, look like a real person, with wet blood. Making wooden swords look metal, retiming footage and creating a new flickering flame background.  Lots of rig removal and general cleanup.

Removing blood flow tubes, and making black shiny duct tape look like material.

Lots of screen inserts.  Green screen comps, removing cars, and freeways by creating matte paintings. Making modern day buildings look decayed.

Adding lots of blood and gore, including adding blood onto a flexing muscle arm.  Adding a carved symbol to rock using a 2D image and some projections.

Crowd replications, and tents.

Opening sequence stitch of handheld and drone footage.  Removing people and objects from shot, and adding a new sky.  Removed text from prompt screens, whilst retaining interacting lighting and lensflares.

Removing seam joins and puppet rigs from stop motion. Compositing backgrounds, stitching shots together, removing light flicker from stop motion frames.

Tricky screen inserts, and rig/wire removals.

Removing rigs and wires from puppets and set.

Removing items from shot, and replacing branding on buildings.

Comping CGI elements into live action plates, and removing elements to this stereo project.​ I was also responsible to setting up Ocula scripts and training all the 2D staff how to use Ocula 3.

Worked on the subway sequence, removing greenscreens and adding new backgrounds.

Comping CGI environments with live action plates.

Comping CGI environments with live action plates. Comping greenscreen set extensions, and background wand fights.

Taking 2D painted images and compositing them onto time-lapse photographs, making to appear to have been painted onto buildings.

Comping CGI environments, and water  plates.  Adding lightening effects.

Mainly rig removals, and rotoscoping

Compositing backgrounds, and prep-work

Clean-up and rotoscoping

Paint and Rotoscoping.

Paint and Rotoscoping.

Rotoscoping work experience.