Sheriff's Car Destroyed - 'Super 8', Paramount.
Coordinated lighting and comp team to match reference photos
Source the window reflection elements from client footage library
QC composites and fx elements
Supervise compositing and FX teams

Creature Smashes Window - 'Super 8', Paramount.
Breakdown division of labor between comp, fx, paint departments
Source window reflection elements from HDR photography
Supervise sourcing and animation timing of window crack element
QC composites and design multiple versions for review

Creature Trashes Convenience Store - 'Super 8', Paramount.
Plan pipeline for use of 2D tracking of locked off CG elements
Source practical dust and smoke elements
Design compositing template for assembly of CG lighting passes

Kids run past midground house - 'Super 8', Paramount.
Create catalog of stock fire elements for compositor use
Select fire and smoke elements and create rough layout artwork
Plan timings and paths of missle hits using layout artwork
Create 3D geometry in Nuke for use as matte elements of house

Kids run through play park - 'Super 8', Paramount.
Create catalog of stock fire elements for compositor use
Select fire and smoke elements and create rough layout artwork
Supervise matte painting creation for house damage
Patch/paint dolly track from floor

Kids run past 3 burning houses - 'Super 8', Paramount.
Create catalog of stock fire elements for compositor use
Select fire and smoke elements and create rough layout artwork
Layout 3D geometry for compositor use with practical FX elements
Plan division of labor between comp, paint, roto, matchmove, and CG

Train station matte painting - 'Super 8', Paramount.
Paint and composite initial matte painting and comp layout
Build 3D scene in Nuke for projection of matte paintings and mattes
Patch greenery and grass around FG with patches from other plates
Blend photo source of sky with matte painting using haze layer

Main Street water tower - 'Super 8', Paramount.
Provide comp template and supervise assembly of CG tower elements
Work with compositor to create variations of color correction for tower
Plan division of labor between matchmove, comp and paint teams
Grade HDR photography to match plate for use by lighting TD's

Jeep drives away from fire cloud - 'Super 8', Paramount.
Paint and composite initial matte painting and comp layout
Plan comp method for treeline extraction from plate photography
Provide reference photos for matte painting artists
Supervise compositor manipulation of matte painting for revisions

Goblins pour powder - 'Spiderwick Chronicles' Feature Film, Paramount
Matchmove stock dust and smoke elements for most powder effects
Integrate CG powder effects for bigger pouring actions
Composite and color correct CG creature elements
Defocus CG elements to match BG plate

Troll drags kid in tunnel - 'Spiderwick Chronicles' Feature Film, Paramount
Create matte element of flashlight for obscuring creature
Matchmove stock dust effects for creature hand and footfall
Create matte element of actor to cast shadow on CG creature
Composite and color correct CG troll to match plate

Goblin hit by car door - 'Spiderwick Chronicles' Feature Film, Paramount
Composite and color correct CG elements over BG plate
Add practical leaf blowing elements to CG leaves to enhance hit and fall
Match plate defocus on CG characters
Add practical slime element to door hit

Hoggy in tree - 'Spiderwick Chronicles' Feature Film, Paramount
Tune translucent look of Hoggy ears using rotoshapes and keyed mattes
Integrate CG shadow pass of Hoggy and enhance with 2D silhouette element
Replace hilight areas of branch in plate with bark texture in shadow areas
Composite and color correct CG Hoggy passes to match plate

Wide shot Benjamin carries Thomas - 'Benjamin Button', Paramount/Warner Bros.
Replace pink colored screen element with matte painting of house
Create matte elements for thin branches using Maya tracking data
Replace ugly plate trees with patched tree elements and Maya tracking data
Add tree silhouettes in house windows to match camera parallax

Closeup of Thomas - 'Benjamin Button', Paramount/Warner Bros.
Replace pink colored screen element with matte painting of house
Key FG character hairs from green hue in BG trees for matte element
Color correct matte painting for integration into plate
Color correct plate trees to remove pink spill

Thomas runs with baby - 'Benjamin Button', Paramount/Warner Bros.
Replace modern skyline with matte painting of 1918 skyline beneath bridge
Create movement in smoke still images using animated distortion effect
Key left side of screen and insert matte painting of building
Color correct matte painting for integration into plate

Thomas holds baby - 'Benjamin Button', Paramount/Warner Bros.
Replace modern skyline with matte painting of 1918 skyline
Match misty haze over matte painting element
Distort reflections of lights in water to match look of plate reflections
Match grain in matte painting to anamorphic plate grain

Jack sparrow and boat - 'Pirates 3', Walt Disney Pictures
Bluescreen extraction and stabilization of boat
Create shadow element using 3D camera data and corner pins
Remove tracking markers on BG salt flats plate
Color correct ship miniature for bleached look

Pirate falls towards water - 'Pirates 3', Walt Disney Pictures
Create water element using several practical elements
Add shadow effects to water surface
Bluescreen extraction of FG
2D matchmove of water element

Jack holds sinking boat - 'Pirates 3', Walt Disney Pictures
Stitch together oversized water element from several offset plates
Add shadow effects to water surface
Matchmove miniature element of ship deck to FG actor plate
Bluescreen extraction of FG