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Visual effects compositor jobs7/25/2023 ![]() From a young age I wanted to work in film and I finally got there but it's because I didn't give up. ![]() I don't know what she wanted me to do – everyone's a scientist, maybe she wanted me to do something along those lines, but that kind of puts you down, you think will I ever get there? But I never stopped trying. Having family and friends who don't work in the film industry at all and knowing that that's so far away and them always telling you "just get a normal job", you know, my mum didn't want me to do Film Studies at university, she wanted me to do. Downton Abbey is a film where you wouldn't really notice any visual effects, you know, there's no magic in there, there's no wizarding world, but there are a lot of visual effects that go into that because it might be easier for them to have someone on a green screen and put a set in afterwards, for example. It'll be a green screen and it'll just be a regular world behind them but you won't even know that it's, you know, visual effects. Sometimes as a viewer you don't even know that you're watching visual effects. Gravity where, you know, you're in space and you can't film in space but you can do that with visual effects. You can have creatures that don't exist, you know, these worlds from Asgard in Thor that you'd never be able to experience. The thing I love most about film is the world that you can create that you can't experience in the real world. It was really relaxed and it was just about who I was – am I going to fit in with their team? And when they asked me about certain softwares I said that I didn't know and they were like: "That's fine. The interview was a very relaxed chat really, we just talked about me as a person rather than – we talked about my skill set as well but there were things that I couldn't do and when they asked me about it, you know, I was very honest and I think they really appreciate that, they want to know where you are so they know how to help you once you get the job. I started at Framestore as a junior so obviously I didn't know very much. The latest ones I've worked on – Bond I'm working on at the moment, obviously Fantastic Beasts, both of those, and hopefully I'll get to work on the third one as well once we get to compositing stage of it. My family, we all went to watch it together afterwards as well and everyone, you know, we all waited until the end of the credits and like we all clapped and I've got a big family, you know, there was about 20 of us there.įilms that I've worked on from Maleficent, Edge of Tomorrow, Guardians of the Galaxy – the first one and the second one – Pan, The Martian. I watched it again after that to, you know, actually watch the film, but the first time I watched it I was just looking at my shots and thinking, wow, I've done that and then obviously waiting for my name in the credits at the end. ![]() I wasn't really watching the film, I was watching for my work in the film. Watching Maleficent on the night that it came out, I was. A strong sense of compositing, color and design, and a thorough knowledge of the film industry and color.The first film I worked on was Maleficent and it was about seven years ago.Experience in compositing photorealistic images of high-quality and skills to create a smooth transition between shooting plans and 2D/3D elements.Deliver work within established project targets and the high quality standards of the company.Work with the visual effects supervisor and the compositing supervisor to determine creative and technical approaches.Produce high level photorealistic images and create seamless transitions between filmed footage and composited 2D and 3D elements.Achieve simple to complex compositing tasks at all stages of the production process including pre-comps, temp composites, 2D tracking, 2D effects, extractions, selection and integration of elements, and color grading.
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