Oblivion - 2013

Task: In these two shots I had to remove the entire production area, roads, vehicles, and anything that made it look modern.  I used the on set Lidar Geo and then Camera Solver in nuke to generate a 3D Camera.  I had to model extra Geo and clean up the holes in the Lidar with some Cards that I Deformed bicubically in Nuke. Finally, I made several clean plates in Photoshop and projected them onto the cleaned up Geo for the final shot.

Software: NukeX, Photoshop

Task:  Here is Jack (Tom Cruise) wearing a harness with two wires attached to make him look as if he was in zero gravity in space.  After several takes, the wires ripped areas of the suit where they attached at the waist.  I had to repair these areas by painting out both the wires and several wire shadows that were casted from the lighting rigs onset.

Software: NukeX, Photoshop



Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1483013/combined

Beautiful Creatures - 2013

Task:  In this shot the actor (Alden Ehrenreich) had a safety wire attached to his back, so he wouldn't fall climbing down the house. This caused the shirt to stretch and pull upwards.
So I had to not only paint out the wire over the background but also replace part of his shirt. I created the clean plate of the new non-stretched shirt in Photoshop. Then I tracked his shirt and made counter animated key-frames with a corner pin and grid-warper to make the shirt fit into the original shirt. Finally I color corrected the patch and added animated highlights and shadows to blend the patch into the original shirt to make a seamless convincing edge.

Software: NukeX, Photoshop



Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1559547/?ref_=nm_flmg_vsl_10

The Amazing SpiderMan - 2012

Task: In this shot the Camera reflection in the window of truck was very visible and covered most of the talent in frame. I had to remove this on all frames and then composited an entirely new background of New York City with many extra elements: smoke, lights, cars, buses, and buildings.

Software: NukeX and Photoshop

Task: Spiderman's (Andrew Garfield) suit kept wrinkling and not forming to his body correctly, so the director asked for this to be fixed. I tracked and warped patches onto his suit (screen right- lats, waist, and hip area) where it needed fixing so that the actor's outfit looked perfect all the time.

Software: NukeX and Photoshop



Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0948470/combined

Snow White and the Huntsman - 2012

Task: In this sequence my task was to Paint out all the mortar sand dunes before they exploded in this "storming of the beach" sequence.

Software: NukeX and Photoshop



Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1735898/combined

The Avengers - 2012

Task: This shot from "The Avengers" - I was asked to by ILM to help them out by cleaning up the on set GS (green screen), since it was extremely hard and difficult to pull any keys on. So I gave them back a perfectly key-able cleaned GS. 

Software: NukeX



Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0848228/combined

Fast Five - 2011

Task: In this "Vault Heist" bridge sequence, I had to Paint out the entire Vault Truck driving down the freeway. As well as composite in new background mountains and CG(computer generated) lamp posts

Software: NukeX and Photoshop

Task: This shot required a ton of plate restoration. Removing all the wires, cables, production tents/crew and rebuilding the K-rail on the bridge as well as removing the camera rig and wires on the Hero Car. I used projection cards,  2D trackers, corner pins, and grid warps to frame by frame animate still images to track onto the car and ground to make it look as if their was nothing to do on this shot.      

Software: NukeX and Photoshop

Task: In this "Vault Heist" street sequence, I had to Paint out numerous on set camera cars, cranes, car ramps, and practical vault.  

Software: NukeX and Photoshop




Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1596343/combined

Hugo 2011

Task: In this shot the actor (Sacha Baron Cohen) had a safety wire on him that needed to be Painted out for the entire shot. This was a native stereo movie, meaning it had 2 (two) left and right eye footage, so the paint out had to be spot on in both eyes to make for a seamless stereo shot.

Software: NukeX and Photoshop

Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0970179/combined

Sucker Punch - 2011

Task: This was one of my compositing shots in the movie. My task was to integrate and track in a BG (background), add a CG(computer generated) vehicle in the FG (foreground), with CG planes flying around in the BG and add effects like fire, smoke, and bullet tracers flying around in the shot.

Software: NukeX

Task: In this shot the hero talent was wearing a wire rig harness to make her spin in the air while dropping into frame. So I took several pictures of a coordinators belly at work in 6 different angles. Then took those photos into Photoshop and stitched them together. Afterwards in Nuke I projected that stitched Photoshop file on simple cylinder geometry and animated a couple grade nodes to make shadows and highlights interact on it. Lastly I had to use the Paint Brush tool to paint frame by frame the other areas of shadow removal of wires and motion blur edges to push this shot to final stages. 

Software: NukeX and Photoshop




Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0978764/combined

A Nightmare on Elm Street - 2010

Task: This task was to paint out the reflection of the girls mom (Connie Britton), then composite a separate plate of Freddy Kruegar's (Jackie Earle Haley) into the mirror acting as if he is her reflection.
I had to warp, time-offset, re-time, and color correct Freddy into the mirror to give him the exact movement of the mom's reflection movement.

Software: NukeX



Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1179056/combined