FUNCTIONAL SUMMARY:

Senior Digital Compositor:  Worked on more than 70 films. See: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0331083/.

Award winning 3D Technical Director/Supervisor: Received Telly Award, Best Children’s Video, 1997, 3D Supervisor for “Casper: A Spirited Beginning” and 1998, Best Children’s Video, “Casper Meets Wendy”, 3D Technical Director.

Emmy Award (certificate) for compositing on John Adams HBO Mini-Series #3

“Independence Day” – I completed 47 shots in 3 months, including the canyon dogfight between the alien ship and the F-15 fighter.

Expertise in multiple compositing, image processing, and 3D modeling and texturing software packages:  Nuke, Fusion, Shake, Motor, Monet, Cineon, Commotion, Photoshop, Lightwave 3D, Maya, Modo, Z-Brush, Mudbox, Real Flow, etc.

PERTINENT EMPLOYMENT:

Current Job:

June 2011- current
RTT, Pasadena, CA
Senior Compositor: Project Hire
GM

Recent Jobs:

April 2011- May 2011
Look FX, Hollywood, CA
Senior Compositor:Show Hire
Breaking In,REM,Frostbite

November 2010 - December 2010
Pixomondo TV, Pasadena,CA
Senior Compositor: Show Hire
Hawaii Five-0 Episodes 4-11, Fringe Episodes 4-9
Undercovers Episodes 5 -12, Outsorced Episodes 9 -11

March 2010 - August 2010
LookFX, Hollywood,CA
Senior Compositor: Show Hire
Just the Right Movers, Lost, Bones
Lost Final Chapter, Edgar Floats
Black Swan

Dec 2009 - Feb 2010
Cafe Effects, Santa Maria,CA
Senior Compositor/Demensionalizer: Show Hire
Alice in Wonderland

June 2009 - July 2009
Look FX, Hollywood ,CA
Senior Compositor: Show Hire
Tekken, Gamer, Aliens in the Attic, Legion

April 2009 - June 2009
The Brickyard, Boston ,Mass
Senior Compositor: Show Hire
The Proposal

March 2009 - April 2009
Frantic Films Hollywood, CA
Senior Compositor: Show Hire
GI Joe

Dec 2008 – Feb 2009
Digital Domain, Venice, CA
Senior Compositor: Show Hire
G.I. Joe

February 2008-Nov 2008
Pixel Magic Toluca Lake ,CA
Senior Compositor: Show Hire
Hotel For Dogs (45 shots), Twelve Rounds (8 shots), Thousand Words (25 shots), Marley and Me (9 shots)

Emmy Award Winning
October 2007- January 2008
CafeFX    Santa Maria, CA
Senior Compositor: Show Hire
John Adams    HBO mini series (22 shots)

August, 2007- October 2007
Sony Image Works, Culver City, CA
Senior Lighter /Compositor: Show Hire
I am Legend (8 shots), Beowulf (14 shots)

November, 1994 – July  2007
Pixel Magic Toluca Lake, CA
Senior Digital Compositor: Staff

I corrected colors to match clips on incoming customer footage on hundreds of shots for dozens of movies.

Performed initial green screen and blue screen pulls and made flow graphs for other artists to use. Matched, moved, and stabilized plates. Built custom nodes for ease of application.

Matched film grain to original film grain. Matched shots to match clips provided by customers. Incorporated 3D renders into live action plates. Created artificial environments and effects. Created particle effects.

3D Technical Director and 3D Supervisor:

Built high-resolution 3D wire frames, organic and non-organic. Built models to specified polygon count limits for games. Textured, UV, and normal mapped 3D models. Painted 3D texture maps for models. Rigged 3D wire frame models. Key frame animated 3D models. Lit and placed 3D models in scenes. Worked with volumetric lighting, IK, morph target deformation, and dynamics.

For Lookfx 2009: Using Nuke interface designed how to convert 2D to 3D Real D images, using roto mattes for separation , and gradients to regulate pixel offset for right and left eye.

OTHER PERTINENT EXPERIENCE:

• Talonsoft, “East Front” computer game: built 45 historically accurate 3D models from line drawings provided by the company.
  
  
• Auran, “Tranz 2006” computer game: built historically accurate 3D model of Mikado 2-8-2 steam engine and tender.
  
  
• Pacific Title International, Santa Monica, “Murder By Numbers”, green screen digital compositing on Cineon.
  
  
• Lecturer, Kodak Cineon Workshop.
  

Selected workshops and training:

• Kodak Cineon Workshop, Los Angeles, CA.  Digital compositing on the Cineon workstation.  Learned to master the Cineon interface.  Pulling blue and green screens using Ultimatte.  Keying and tracking techniques.
  
  
• New Tek Lightwave Workshop, Los Angeles, CA.  3D Model making, texturing, and animating with Lightwave 3D.
  
  
• Gnomon Workshop , Shake Teacher