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Notes from the comp room
Talks, trailers, interviews and the odd classroom visit. A running log of the shows I've worked on and the people I've worked on them with.
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Deadpool & Wolverine at the Foundry Film Club
I was invited to Foundry's London office as part of their Foundry Film Club to present the work Framestore and FPS did on Deadpool & Wolverine.
It was a real treat to walk the people who build Nuke through what we did with it: the shots, the problems we had to solve, and how the comp team got everything over the line. Talking compositing in a room full of people who make the tools is a very particular kind of fun.
Huge thanks to Foundry for having us, and to the whole crew whose work I got to show off.
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I've been FRAMED
Framestore runs a series called [FRAMED] that puts the people behind the work in the spotlight, with a list of probing questions and a famously short deadline. This time it was my turn.
Questions, answers, and a peek at my desktop.
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New Moon Knight trailer
I've been one of the comp leads on Marvel's Moon Knight for Disney+, which lands at the end of March, and the Super Bowl trailer just dropped. It's the show we've been working on for the past eight months.
We've done a lot of suit and creature work. There's also a short snippet of a much longer shot: a room covered in mirrors that I rebuilt completely, to remove the camera operator and add extra reflections.
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Tom & Jerry trailer
I'm really proud to be part of this one. The character setup in comp was very detailed and let us dial in exactly how 2D or 3D each shot should feel.
The characters had been thoroughly look-dev'd, so most renders came in pretty much spot on, apart from some line work that needed touching up here and there. I had two shots in the trailer, though both evolved a bit after it was released. We comped the show in Nuke.
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Talking heads
I had the pleasure of being a guest on Adam Levi's Duckademy vlog. We had a long chat, edited down to about 30 minutes, about everything from uprooting yourself to a new country to what it feels like to work on a top-secret scene in Avengers: Endgame.
The interview is in Hebrew, but I'll do one in English eventually.
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Mentoring at Escape Studios
Back at Escape Studios for a mentoring session with the Advanced Compositing students, going through their shots and talking about how a comp comes together in production.
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Dibur Azmai podcast
I had a great time talking to Michael Schwartz on Dibur Azmai about compositing, working on big-budget films and much more. This one's in Hebrew.
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My After Effects book
A while back I co-wrote an After Effects book in Hebrew with Liran Tabib from VDODNA, published by Mentor. It's the only one of its kind.
A lot of time, and a lot of love for the craft, went into those pages.
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Escape Studios, again
Another great visit with the talented Advanced Compositing students at Escape Studios. It's always a pleasure seeing how far they've come.
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Guest lecturing at Escape Studios
I had the pleasure of representing Framestore as a guest lecturer at Escape Studios' compositing class, giving feedback on the students' projects.
Those folks have some serious talent, and creative careers ahead of them.
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Framestore's Thor: Ragnarok crew
The whole Framestore London team behind Thor: Ragnarok, all in one frame. An amazing bunch of artists to share a show with.