Ken Littleton VFX Supervisor/Senior Compositor

Experience

Dec 06 – Present
LittletonFX
, Los Angeles, CA
Visual Effects Consultant/Artist. Technology and procedures consultant for visual effects production and digital mastering. Freelance visual effects artist and Nuke/Shake compositor for feature film effects.

Jul 04 – Dec 06
MESH Corporation, Los Angeles, CA
President/VFX Supervisor. Incorporated technology and procedures consultant for visual effects production and digital mastering. Supervise visual effects and post-production mastering of feature films. Clients include Digital Domain, Gray Matter Effects and Laser Pacific.

Jul 03 – Jun 04
LittletonFX, Los Angeles, CA
Visual Effects Consultant/Artist. Technology and procedures consultant for visual effects production and digital mastering. Freelance visual effects artist and Apple Shake compositor for titles, trailers and effects.

Feb 01 – Jun 03
Kodak Cinesite, Los Angeles, CA
2D Manager. Manager responsible for operations of Visual Effects Compositing, Rotoscope and Paint. Managed up to fifty artists. Successfully integrated both Shake and Inferno systems and artists in less than three months including budgeting, vendor relations, technical implementation and installation, pipeline integration and hiring of artists. Improved legacy 2D pipeline and procedures to increase capacity by three hundred percent with two terabytes of network and fiber storage, tripled processors and authored/edited queue management software. Rebuilt Roto department from one artist to six artists and supervisor. Added a Digital Image Supervisor position to implement color corrected plates in both 2D and 3D pipelines and oversee and maintain superior image quality. Supervised visual effects, titles, restoration and digital-opticals on more than a dozen feature films.

Feb 00 – Oct 01
StreeTax.com, Santa Monica, CA
Partner/President. Managed startup Internet based company to provide tax-related software for the financial industry. Oversaw business operations, hardware deployment and software design/development. Development lead on Java-based Capital Gains analysis and accounting package for traded assets.

Aug 95 – Feb 00
Pacific Ocean Post Film, Santa Monica, CA
Digital Effects Supervisor. Supervised all aspects of digital post-production of feature films. Managed development of intranet database applications for managing assets. Credits include Academy award winning features Independence Day, Titanic and What Dreams May Come.

Oct 94 – Jul 95
Kodak Cinesite, Hollywood, CA
Digital Compositing Supervisor/Artist. Supervised digital post-production on Free Willy 2, Waterworld and Under Siege 2.

Jun 89 – Sep 94
Littleton Brothers, Hermosa Beach, CA
Digital Film & Video Production and System Engineering. Designed and engineered Macintosh and Silicon Graphics based graphics and animation production systems including digital film scanning and printing systems and broadcast video transfer systems. Design and production of 2D and 3D animation and graphics for motion pictures and commercial broadcast. Clients include Kodak and Apple Computer.

Mar 86 – Jun 89
Halcyon Productions Inc., Colorado Springs, CO
Vice-President/Producer. Co-founded video presentation and consulting firm. Responsibilities included initialization and management of business operations, contracts, equipment purchasing, scripting, production and post-production supervision to produce corporate video programs. Clients included Honeywell, TRW, United Technologies and the University of Pennsylvania.

Education:

Sep 82 – Apr 85
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
B.S. Computer Sciences & Engineering

Jul 81 – Jun 82
University of Minnesota/Graphics Systems Engineering Lab, Minneapolis, MN

Skills:

· Photography 30 years

· Cinematography 13 years

· Image Processing 18 years

· MS Office 18 years

· Unix/Linux Admin 26 years

· Windows Admin 14 years

· MacOS Admin 18 years

· Computer Networking 26 years

Awards:

1999 International Monitor Award:

Theatrical Releases - Electronic Visual Effects - What Dreams May Come

1997 International Monitor Award:

Theatrical Releases - Electronic Visual Effects - Independence Day

References & Credits:

Provided upon request.


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