make something out of nothing. Only given individual
pieces of a scene the compositor's job is to take each
exclusive element and combine them to make a cohesive.
For the past four years I have been learning the techniques used for compositing.
Using software such as: Discreet Logic's Effect and Combustion, Adobe's After
Effects, Alias|Wavefront's Maya Fusion, and recently Nothing Real's Shake I have
fine-tuned my skills and have acquired a strong understanding of what is needed
to complete the postproduction process. I have had experience with keying,
rotoscoping, motion tracking, color correction, lighting, and other elements such
as the addition of 2D shadows, reflections, blurs, glows, and other elemental
filters/sparks.
More often than not the job of a compositor is to
These images display the work I did on an in-class project for a "Nokia" commercial. Above a 3D roach, created in Maya, was combined with a live action character to help accentuate his squalid living conditions. The use of motion tracking, color correction, keying, and the addition of 2D shadows to the roach and television antenna were needed to complete this advertisement. All of the compositing elements and storyboards for this project were completed by myself.