Objective: Seeking an exciting and challenging job as a Digital Compositor.
Qualification Highlights
Computer literate in Windows, Macintosh OSX, and Linux.
Knowledge in Shake, Nuke, Digital Fusion, Flame, Combustion, Final Cut Pro, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Creative Suite, Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004, Microsoft Office including Access.
General exposure to Adobe Premier, Maya, Pixar’s RenderMan, and Side Effect’s Houdini.
Recognized for a strong work ethic-can be counted upon to "get the job done right" the first time.
Excellent computer skills on various operating systems honed from years of computer related work.
Understanding in real world film work and camera filming.
Feature Films:
Flags of our Fathers
Letters from Iwo Jima
Transformers
We Own the Night
Pirates of the Caribbean 3: At World’s End
Golden Compass
Alvin and the Chipmunks
Work Skills Garnered
Compositing Skills
Trained in green-screen extraction, rotoscoping, tracking, color correction, painting, background replacement, lighting, and film editing in Shake, Nuke and Flame.
Compositied 3-D furry chipmunks and other 3-D elements. Added shadows, grain, and color corrections. Problem solved compositing issues. Matched 3-D elements to live background. Worked with lighters to retrieve and place lighting elements into the comp. Implemented client corrections. Alvin and the Chipmunks (Icy)
Pulled green screen mattes and placed actress into live action plates. Matched grain and color, also removed markers from scenes. Created speed ramps for certain shots. Haven (Nuke)
Rotoscoped Nicole Kidman. Removed rigs and on set 3-D stuffed animal stand-ins for Golden Compass. (Icy)
Rotoscoping of cars, windows, and actors for We Own the Night. (Nuke)
Wire removal and removal of dog lead lines. Rotoscoping of men for Transformers. (Shake, Combustion)
Rotoscoping and marker removal for Pirates of the Caribbean 3 including rendering out motion blur mattes, assisting lead rotoschope artist and compositors. Managed a six scan shot for one of the largest scenes in the film with a crew of six artists. Included assembling team’s mattes, checking work, applying motion blur and communicated with sequence compositor from start to finish. (Nuke, Combustion)
Composited for short film exhibits in the Las Vegas Springs Preserve on Garbage Truck and Desert Life Cycle. Made complicated mattes from green screens. Replaced backgrounds and made simplified “cartoon” qualities to actors as a treatment techinique. Composited in 3-D elements. (Digital Fusion)
Composited for a short called Sheep. Made complicated keys from DV footage. Combined 3-D and 2-D elements, created the look of the spaceship beam. Made sheep dissolve through expressions. Color corrected overall footage and applied grain to 3-D elements.
Rotoscoped and tracked soldiers, ships, ridges, buildings, etc. for Flags of our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima at Digital Domain. Managed shots and assisted lead rotoscope artist in assembling shots. Assisted compositors with published mattes and rotos. Applied motion blur to mattes. (Nuke, Combustion)
Composited scenes for the movie The Slaughter at Production HQ. Rotoscoped and composited in actors on a staircase shaking individually from one another and from the staircase. (Shake)
Composited images for Victoria Vives’s music video Fuego through Production HQ. Responsibilities included rotoscoping, keying, developing a video game selection screen, color correcting, and
compositing fire and glow elements for the video. (Shake)
Designed ads, brochures, company reports and other various media items for Neely/Dales LLC using In Design, Illustrator, and Photoshop.
Color corrected and manipulated digital images of company owned properties for ads and brochures. (Ex. Sky replacement, removal of various items, etc.)
Education and College Activities
Graduate Magna Cum Laude B.F.A. degree in Visual Effects (GPA 3.7) Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), 2005
Student Ambassador and Orientation Leader - Savannah College of Art and Design
Kiwanis, Advanced Honors Society for top 1% of student body who helps with community service.
President of the Society for Collegiate Journalists (SCAD Chapter), devoted to sincere, unbiased journalism. Founded in 1909 by the Pi Delta Epsilon - Alpha Phi Gamma.
Managing Editor for the District, Campus Student Newspaper, Savannah College of Art and Design
Vice President of Finance; 2 years as a representative for the United Student Forum, Student Government
Advanced Honors Graduate - Osbourn Park High School, Manassas, Virginia (2002)
