Short Career Bio

Originally interested in editing, I completed a Bachelor of Media degree, majoring in Visual Production, in 2003. During this time I learnt a lot about the production side of filmmaking but finally decided that my passion lay in visual effects and not with the cameras, cranes, dollies and jibs I spent so much time with during university. During my final year of uni, I decided to focus on teaching myself compositing - a field not taught at Macquarie University at the time.

In addition to my role as First Assistant Director on my final year film, "Moonshine Lullaby", I learnt Combustion and composited more than 30 shots for the childrens narrative. The film was well recieved and earnt the "Peoples Choice" award. I recieved a personal award for "Best Visual Effects" and the film went on to be selected as a finalist at the ATOM Awards and later became the most viewed and highest rated short film at niceshorts.com.au.

In 2004 I began work as a runner at FSM, one of Sydney's largest post-production companies. Between shifts I used to sit with senior Flame artists or by myself and learn Discreets' premium compositing tool. In 2005 my showreel earnt me a place on the FTO's Visual Effects Traineeship Shortlist and not long after I was offered a full-time position as a Shake compositor with FSM.

Since then, I have become an expert Shake artist, with digital compositor, lead compositor and visual effects supervisor credits on a number of feature films and high profile international commercials. My passion for visual effects and learning new things has helped me develop a broad skills base which has grown to include Graphics tasks (video encoding, dvd creation, logging and digitizing footage, graphics preparation), Tape-room tasks (patching via routers, digi, SP, D5, HD-Cam, HD-Cam SR deck operation), Web Development (website design using Flash and/or CSS, backend/web application development using PHP/MySQL/Javascript/AS2.0) and film scanning using FilmLight products (Northlight / Baselight).

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