EXPERIENCE



SENIOR COMPOSITOR FREELANCER – 2016 – 2017Freelanced for MPC london with the position of Senior compositor on Pirates of the Caribbean 5. (4 months)Senior compositor the majority of the time working for Time Based Arts on commercials for clients Such as BMW, Mercedes, Issey Miyake and many more.

SENIOR COMPOSITOR MCP- 2015

Senior Compositor on Fast and Furious 7

SENIOR COMPOSITOR BLACK GINGER 2014

Senior Compositor on the feature “Blended”

SENIOR COMPOSITOR LOCO VFX- 2013 – 2014

Senior compositor on Disney’s “The games maker”, Weinstein Companies: “Kite” and “Mandela’s gun”

SENIOR COMPOSITOR BLACK GINGER – 2012

Worked on both international and national commercials for a few months.

COMPOSITING SUPERVISOR – TRIGGERFISH ANIMATION STUDIOS – 2010 – 2012

Managed team of 7 compositors, finishing over 1600 stereo shots on animated feature “Zambezia”. Responsible for approvals, supervision and artistic direction. Developed internal tools for stereo nuke stereo pipeline. Released 2012.

SENIOR NUKE COMPOSITOR – BLACK GINGER 2008 – MID 2010

Composited for NBC Knight Rider, Warner Bros : Free Willy Escape from pirates cove and Tangshan ( Aftershock, joint venture between technicolor Beijing, Blackginger, Loki vfx Toronto and MPC London released on IMAX )

SENIOR EDITOR / PIPELINE PRODUCER – PORTAL FILMS JAN – MARCH 2009

Edited, graded the feature “Everyman’s Taxi” (short freelance job)

FREELANCE OFFLINE / ONLINE EDITOR AND COMPOSITING – 2007 – 2009

Worked primary with commercials and television series.

COMPOSITOR / ONLINE / OFFLINE EDITOR – MINISTRY OF ILLUSION – 2006 – 2007

Visual Effects compositor for film and television medium, working in own suite with clients on a daily basis. Primarily in Shake, FCP and Colour.

TRAINER – AFDA JOHANNESBURG – 2005

Trained final year graduation students in Shake and Maya operation

EDUCATION

• Apple shake 4.0 certification – Soho Editors johannesburg 2007

• Bachelor of Arts Honors – Motion Picture medium – AFDA Johannesburg 2005Majored in Digital Visual Effects. (Won best VFX for the second time)

• Bachelor of Arts – Motion Picture medium – AFDA Johannesburg 2004Majored in digital visual effects, sub-majored in Editing and Sound Design.