Brian Begun Senior Compositor

Employment History and Filmography

Digital Domain • Jun 2010

Digital Domain • Oct 1999 – Nov 2008

Commercial: Tron “Virus 2” Videogame (2010)

Feature: The Nativity Story (2006)

 

Feature: Flags of Our Fathers (2006)

Zoic Studios • Feb 2010 – May 2010

Feature: Stealth (2005)

Feature: Priest (2011)

Feature: I, Robot (2004)

Television: “V” Season 1: Episodes 5, 7, 9

Feature: The Day After Tomorrow (2004)

Television: “Cold Case” Season 7: Episode 17

Feature: Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)

 

Feature: The Time Machine (2002)

Pixomondo • Sept 2009 – Jan 2010

Commercial: Cingular Wireless: "Wingtip" (2002)

Feature: Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010)

Feature: How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)

 

Commercial: GM: “GM Buypower” (1999)

Sway Studio • Aug 2009

 

Commercial: Fox “NFL Delivery”

Tippett Studios • May 1999 – Nov 2000

 

Feature: Evolution (2001)

Uncharted Territory • Nov 2008 – Jul 2009

 

Feature: 2012 (aka “Farewell Atlantis”) (2009)

Rhythm and Hues• Dec 1998 – May 1999

 

Feature: The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas (2000)

Digital Domain • Oct 1999 – Nov 2008

Feature: Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000 (2000)

Feature: The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button (2008)

 

Feature: Speed Racer (2008)

Pacific Ocean Post Digital Film • Dec 1996 – Nov 1999

Feature: The Golden Compass (2007)

Feature: What Dreams May Come (1998)

Commercial: Hummer “Video Game” (2007)

Feature: Doctor Dolittle (1998)

Commercial: Kenmore “Steam” (2007)

Feature: Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)

Commercial: Kenmore “Catch” (2007)

Feature: Payback (1999)

Feature: We Own the Night (2007)

Feature: The 13th Warrior (1999)

Feature: Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End (2007)

Feature: Yellow Submarine (1968)

Feature: Meet The Robinsons (Stereoscopic/3D Version) (2007)

 

 

 

 

Experience and Skills

Compositing Software

The Foundry (Digital Domain) Nuke • Apple Shake • Silicon Grail Chalice • Kodak Cineon • Discreet Logic Flame/Inferno (Familiar With)

Operating Systems

Windows XP • Red Hat Linux • Debian Linux • SGI Unix • Windows 2000 • Mac OSX • Windows Vista/7

Misc. Software

Adobe Photoshop • Combustion (Familiar With) • Elastic Reality • Maya (Familiar With) • After Effects (Familiar With) • Adobe Flash CS3 • Adobe Illustrator • Deadline Rendering Queue System

Programming Languages

Unix C-Shell • Perl • Perl TK • TCL • C • Python (Started Learning)

 

Accolades and Accomplishments

Instructor at Studio Arts (www.studioarts.com) teaching Nuke.

Current Member of the Visual Effects Society

Published article in HDRI3D Magazine #16 “Advanced Compositing Techniques: Look Ma No Blue screen!”

Published article in HDRI3D Magazine #10 “What’s A Pan N Tile and What can It Do For You”.

Interviewed for work on feature film “Stealth” in HDRI3D Magazine Issue 6

Interviewed for using Linux on feature film “Star Trek Nemesis” in Linux Journal January 2003

Interviewed for work in film business in www.vfxworld.com June 2005

Member of Nuke alpha development team at Digital Domain

 

Education

California State University Northridge

Bachelor of Arts, Technical Theatre, September 1991 – December 1996

 

 

 



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