Brian Begun Senior Compositor

Employment History and Filmography

Digital Kitchen • September 2011 – current
Commercial: AT&T

Hammerhead • August 2011 – Septembert 2011	Digital Domain • Oct 1999 – Nov 2008
Feature: Paranormal Activity 3	Feature: The Nativity Story (2006)
Trailer: Hunger Games	Feature: Flags of Our Fathers (2006)
	Feature: Stealth (2005
Level 256 • June 2011 – August 2011	Feature: I, Robot (2004)
Feature: Wanderlust	Feature: The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
	Feature: Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)
Pixomondo • April 2011 – May 2011	Feature: The Time Machine (2002)
Commercials: Transformers "Cyberverse"	Commercial: Cingular Wireless: "Wingtip" (2002)
	Feature: How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
Digital Domain • Aug 2010 – April 2011	Commercial: GM: “GM Buypower” (1999)
Feature: Real Steel (2011)
Feature: Tron Legacy (Stereoscopic) (2010)	Tippett Studios • May 1999 – Nov 2000
Commercials: Ford “Mondeo”, Chevy “Volt”	Feature: Evolution (2001)

Picture Mill • July 2010 – Aug 2010	Rhythm and Hues• Dec 1998 – May 1999
Special: Warner Bros./Newline Logo	Feature: The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas (2000)
	Feature: Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000 (2000)
MPC • Jun 2010 – July 2010
Commercial: Buick “Launch 01”, “Launch 02”, “Beauty”, “Control"	Pacific Ocean Post Digital Film • Dec 1996 – Nov 1999
	Feature: What Dreams May Come (1998)
Digital Domain • Jun 2010	Feature: Doctor Dolittle (1998)
Commercial: Tron “Virus 2” Videogame (2010)	Feature: Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)
	Feature: Payback (1999)
Zoic Studios • Feb 2010 – May 2010	Feature: The 13th Warrior (1999)
Feature: Priest (2011)	Feature: Yellow Submarine (1968)
Television: “V” Season 1: Episodes 5, 7, 9
Television: “Cold Case” Season 7: Episode 17

Pixomondo • Sept 2009 – Jan 2010
Feature: Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010)

Sway Studio • Aug 2009
Commercial: Fox “NFL Delivery”

Uncharted Territory • Nov 2008 – Jul 2009
Feature: 2012 (aka “Farewell Atlantis”) (2009)

Digital Domain • Oct 1999 – Nov 2008
Feature: The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button (2008)
Feature: Speed Racer (2008)
Feature: The Golden Compass (2007)
Commercial: Hummer “Video Game” (2007)
Commercial: Kenmore “Steam” (2007)
Commercial: Kenmore “Catch” (2007)
Feature: We Own the Night (2007)
Feature: Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End (2007)
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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