CAREER SUMMARY

Versatile, highly experienced film and video digital postproduction and special effects supervisor with extensive technology knowledge and expertise, effective communications and team building skills and a fierce commitment to excellence.  These qualities contributed to the numerous Academy Awards for Special Effects won by many of his film projects.

Technical Expertise: Proficient in Avid Digital Studio, Apple Shake, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Photoshop, Discreet Combustion, Digital Domain Nuke, Filemaker Pro, Kodak Cineon, PERL, PHP, and Applescript. 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Digital Compositor                                

Digital Domain, Venice, CA                                (01/05 – 05/05)

Integrated live action and CG elements using Nuke for the film “STEALTH”, directed by Rob Cohen and supervised by Joel Hynek

Producer/Digital Effects Supervisor

Morgan Creek Productions,                                     (06/04-09/04)

Worked with two other artists to somplete over 140 breath additionis for the film “EXORCIST, THE BEGINNING”, VFX supervised by Brian Jennings.  

Digital Effects Supervisor / Compositor

Riot Pictures, Santa Monica, CA.                          (11/02 –06/04)(09/04-10/04)

Creating groundbreaking visual effects for feature films and television.

Manages and trains digital artists in postproduction techniques including rotoscoping, painting, color correction and compositing for feature films.

Digital Effects Supervisor / Compositor

Shadow Digital, LLC/Entertainment Design Workshop - Sheffield, MA            (06/00 – 10/02)

Designed and developed digital online editing facility for postproduction of Disney's children's television series THE BOOK OF POOH, integrating live action puppet foregrounds with real time, rendered virtual sets.

Online editor and special effects supervisor for two seasons (51 episodes) on AVID Digital Studio.

Managed and trained a team of eighteen artists in postproduction techniques including rotoscoping, painting, color correction, compositing and editing.

Systems administrator for Windows NT, Linux and Macintosh including integration of various systems

Vice President of Technology and Product Development 

StreeTax.com, Santa Monica, CA.                            (02/00 - 06/00)

Co-founded and executed beta launch of startup Internet tax site providing tax related software and services for the financial industry.

Developed new product requirements including features, functionality, architecture and user interface.

Served as technical consultant in the redesign and development of the corporate web site and the user interface of the company's web-based application.

Digital Effects Supervisor / Compositor

POP Film, Santa Monica, CA.                                (08/95 – 01/00)

Created visual effects for numerous Academy Award winning films including INDEPENDENCE DAY, TITANIC and WHAT DREAMS MAY COME. 

Managed and trained digital artists in postproduction techniques including rotoscoping, painting, color correction and compositing for feature films.

Digital Compositing Supervisor / Compositor

Kodak Cinesite, Hollywood, CA.                                (10/94 –07/95)

Supervised digital post production teams on award winning films including FREE WILLY 2 and WATERWORLD. 

President/Digital Artist

Littleton Brothers, Hermosa Beach, CA.                            (06/89 – 09/94)

Designed and produced 2D and 3D animation and graphics for motion pictures and commercial broadcast television.

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 for Visual Concept Engineering, Inc.  

Vice President and Producer

Halcyon Productions Inc., Colorado Springs, CO                    (03/86 –06/89)

Co-founded video presentation and consulting firm. 

Established and managed business operations, contracts, equipment purchasing, scripting, production and postproduction supervision to produce corporate video programs.  Clients included Honeywell Solid State Electronics Division, TRW, United Technologies, University of Pennsylvania and SuperFlow Inc.

EDUCATION

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

  Computer Sciences & Engineering

  Graphics Systems Engineering Lab

* For online filmography go to http://us.imdb.com/Name?Littleton,+Lawrence