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Dune

Denis Villeneuve

Blade Runner 2049

Denis Villeneuve - Oscar for "Best Visual Effect" -British Academy of Film and Television Arts for "Best Visual Effect"

Dune

Denis Villeneuve

Blade Runner 2049

Denis Villeneuve - Oscar for "Best Visual Effect" -British Academy of Film and Television Arts for "Best Visual Effect"

FEATURE FILMS

Explore the projects I have been working on

Dune

Denis Villeneuve - With Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Jason Momoa

Feature adaptation of Frank Herbert's science fiction novel about the son of a noble family entrusted with the protection of the most valuable asset and most vital element in the galaxy.

Oscar nominee for Best Visual Effect

BAFTA nominee for Best Visual Effect

Blade Runner 2049

Denis Villeneuve - With Ryan Gosling, Dave Bautista, Robin Wright, Mark Arnold

Feature adaptation of Philip Dick about Young Blade Runner K's discovery of a long-buried secret leads him to track down former Blade Runner Rick Deckard, who's been missing for thirty years.

Oscar - Best Visual Effect

BAFTA - Best Visual Effect

Devotion J.D. Dillard - With Serinda Swan, Jonathan Majors, Glen Powell A pair of U.S. Navy fighter pilots risk their lives during the Korean War and become some of the Navy's most celebrated wingmen.	Moonfall Roland Emmerich. With Halle Berry, Patrick Wilson, John Bradley A mysterious force knocks the Moon from its orbit around Earth and sends it hurdling on a collision course with life as we know it.	The Lost City Aaron Nee, Adam Nee - With Sandra Bullock, Channing Tatum A reclusive romance novelist on a book tour with her cover model gets swept up in a kidnapping attempt that lands them both in a cutthroat jungle adventure.
Jungle Cruise Jaume Collet-Serra - With Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt, Edgar Ramírez A small riverboat takes a group of travelers through a jungle filled with dangerous animals and reptiles but with a supernatural element.	Venom - Let there be Carnage Andy Serkis - With Tom Hardy, Woody Harrelson, Michelle Williams Eddie Brock attempts to reignite his career by interviewing serial killer Cletus Kasady, who becomes the host of the symbiote Carnage and escapes prison after a failed execution.	Fast & Furious 9 Justin Lin - With Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Jordana Brewster Dom and the crew must take on an international terrorist who turns out to be Dom and Mia's estranged brother.
Dolittle Stephen Gaghan. With Robert Downey Jr., Antonio Banderas, Michael Sheen A physician who can talk to animals embarks on an adventure to find a legendary island with a young apprentice and a crew of strange pets.	Maleficent Joachim Rønning - With Angelina Jolie, Elle Fanning, Harris Dickinson Maleficent and her goddaughter Aurora begin to question the complex family ties that bind them, unexpected allies and dark new forces at play.	Dumbo Tim Burton - With Colin Farrell, Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito, Eva Green A young elephant, whose oversized ears enable him to fly, helps save a struggling circus, but Dumbo and his friends discover dark secrets beneath its shiny veneer.
Fantastic Beasts - The Crimes of Grindelwald David Yates - With Eddie Redmayne, Johny Depp, Jude Law The second installment of the "Fantastic Beasts" series featuring the adventures of Magizoologist Newt Scamander.	Mowgli - Legend of the Jungle Andy Serkis - With Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Benedict Cumberbatch A human child raised by wolves must face off against a menacing tiger named Shere Khan, as well as his own origins.	Mary Poppins Returns Rob Marshall - With Emily Blunt, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ben Whishaw A few decades after her original visit, Mary Poppins, the magical nanny, returns to help the Banks siblings and Michael's children through a difficult time in their lives.
Deadpool 2 Tim Miller - With Ryan Reynolds, Karan Soni, Ed Skrein, Michael Benyaer A wisecracking mercenary gets experimented on and becomes immortal but ugly, and sets out to track down the man who ruined his looks.	Thor Ragnarok Taika Waititi - With Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Cate Blanchett Imprisoned on the planet Sakaar, Thor must race against time to return to Asgard and stop Ragnarök, the destruction of his world, at the hands of the powerful and ruthless villain Hela.	The Nutcracker and the Four Realms Lasse Hallström, Joe Johnston - With Mackenzie Foy, Tom Sweet, Meera Syal, Ellie Bamber. A young girl is transported into a magical world of gingerbread soldiers and an army of mice.
The Mummy Alex Kurtzman - With Tom Cruise, Russell Crowe, Annabelle Wallis An ancient Egyptian princess is awakened from her crypt beneath the desert, bringing with her malevolence grown over millennia, and terrors that defy human comprehension.	Ghost in the Shell Rupert Sanders - With Scarlett Johansson, Pilou Asbæk, Takeshi Kitano Major Mira Killian is the first of her kind: A human saved from a terrible crash, who is cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier devoted to stopping the world's most dangerous criminals.	Wonder Woman Patty Jenkins. With Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Connie Nielsen, Robin Wright When a pilot crashes and tells of conflict in the outside world, Diana, an Amazonian warrior in training, leaves home to fight a war, discovering her full powers and true destiny.

EPISODIC

Foundation

Josh Friedman, David S. Goyer - With Lou Llobell, Jared Harris, Lee Pace

A complex saga of humans scattered on planets throughout the galaxy all living under the rule of the Galactic Empire.

Locke and Key Meredith Averill, Aron Eli Coleite, Carlton Cuse - With Darby Stanchfield After their father is murdered under mysterious circumstances, the three Locke siblings and their mother move into their ancestral home, Keyhouse, full of magical keys	The Irregulars Tom Bidwell - With McKell David, Thaddea Graham, Jojo Macari Set in Victorian London, the series follows a gang of troubled street teens who are manipulated into solving crimes for the sinister Doctor Watson and his mysterious partner Sherlock Holmes.	Shadow and Bone Eric Heisserer - With Jessie Mei Li, Archie Renaux, Freddy Carter Dark forces conspire against orphan mapmaker Alina Starkov when she unleashes an extraordinary power that could change the fate of her war-torn world.

SHOWREEL

A showreel is a video portfolio used by artists to share their work and apply for job. The video below is my showreel from 2019.

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Prep the footage, extract greenscreen, clean impurities

Gather all computer generated imagery (CGI) from other departments

Merge them by layer of depth

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WHAT IS
VFX COMPOSITING ?

A Visual Effect Compositor (or Digital Compositor) is the last artist of a long chain. His role is to gather all computer generated imagery (CGI ) from other departments and to compose them into the final footage, like the most advanced patchwork.

His skills are as much technical like green screen extraction, tracking or retiming elements as artistic with a great knowledge of light, color and composition. Such artist is able to modify any element (photography, video, painting...) and integrate them in a picture with harmony and precision to create a believable and photographic picture.

On a photographic level, a VFX compositor must observe and analyze the world to be able to transcribe it on a realistic level. He must understand how the light in the physical world is reacting and affecting materials (wood, metal, skin...). A lot of physics interact such as reflection, refraction, transparency or subsurface scattering.

• Why is the sky blue ? What exact blue depicts the dawn, noon or evening ?

• Does the light react the same on wood, metal and flesh ?

Finally the artist reproduces the artefacts and impurities from the camera such as :

• grain • bloom • lens distortion • lens flare

• dust and finger prints on the camera.

The camera deforms the picture and the spectator has unconsciously integrated these transformations as "this is how a movie looks like", the VFX compositor has to replicate them.

The video below from Roy Peker brilliantly shows the different aspects of the art of compositing

FEATURE FILMS

Devotion

J.D. Dillard - With Serinda Swan, Jonathan Majors, Glen Powell A pair of U.S. Navy fighter pilots risk their lives during the Korean War and become some of the Navy's most celebrated wingmen.

Moonfall

Roland Emmerich. With Halle Berry, Patrick Wilson, John Bradley A mysterious force knocks the Moon from its orbit around Earth and sends it hurdling on a collision course with life as we know it.

The Lost City

Aaron Nee, Adam Nee - With Sandra Bullock, Channing Tatum A reclusive romance novelist on a book tour with her cover model gets swept up in a kidnapping attempt that lands them both in a cutthroat jungle adventure.

Jungle Cruise

Jaume Collet-Serra - With Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt, Edgar Ramírez A small riverboat takes a group of travelers through a jungle filled with dangerous animals and reptiles but with a supernatural element.

Venom - Let there be Carnage

Andy Serkis - With Tom Hardy, Woody Harrelson, Michelle Williams Eddie Brock attempts to reignite his career by interviewing serial killer Cletus Kasady, who becomes the host of the symbiote Carnage and escapes prison after a failed execution.

Fast & Furious 9

Justin Lin - With Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Jordana Brewster Dom and the crew must take on an international terrorist who turns out to be Dom and Mia's estranged brother.

Dolittle

Stephen Gaghan. With Robert Downey Jr., Antonio Banderas, Michael Sheen A physician who can talk to animals embarks on an adventure to find a legendary island with a young apprentice and a crew of strange pets.

Maleficent

Joachim Rønning - With Angelina Jolie, Elle Fanning, Harris Dickinson Maleficent and her goddaughter Aurora begin to question the complex family ties that bind them, unexpected allies and dark new forces at play.

Dumbo

Tim Burton - With Colin Farrell, Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito, Eva Green A young elephant, whose oversized ears enable him to fly, helps save a struggling circus, but Dumbo and his friends discover dark secrets beneath its shiny veneer.

Fantastic Beasts - The Crimes of Grindelwald

David Yates - With Eddie Redmayne, Johny Depp, Jude Law The second installment of the "Fantastic Beasts" series featuring the adventures of Magizoologist Newt Scamander.

Mowgli - Legend of the Jungle

Andy Serkis - With Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Benedict Cumberbatch A human child raised by wolves must face off against a menacing tiger named Shere Khan, as well as his own origins.

Mary Poppins Returns

Rob Marshall - With Emily Blunt, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ben Whishaw A few decades after her original visit, Mary Poppins, the magical nanny, returns to help the Banks siblings and Michael's children through a difficult time in their lives.

Deadpool 2

Tim Miller - With Ryan Reynolds, Karan Soni, Ed Skrein, Michael Benyaer A wisecracking mercenary gets experimented on and becomes immortal but ugly, and sets out to track down the man who ruined his looks.

Thor Ragnarok

Taika Waititi - With Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Cate Blanchett Imprisoned on the planet Sakaar, Thor must race against time to return to Asgard and stop Ragnarök, the destruction of his world, at the hands of the powerful and ruthless villain Hela.

The Nutcracker and the Four Realms

Lasse Hallström, Joe Johnston - With Mackenzie Foy, Tom Sweet, Meera Syal, Ellie Bamber. A young girl is transported into a magical world of gingerbread soldiers and an army of mice.

The Mummy

Alex Kurtzman - With Tom Cruise, Russell Crowe, Annabelle Wallis An ancient Egyptian princess is awakened from her crypt beneath the desert, bringing with her malevolence grown over millennia, and terrors that defy human comprehension.

Ghost in the Shell

Rupert Sanders - With Scarlett Johansson, Pilou Asbæk, Takeshi Kitano Major Mira Killian is the first of her kind: A human saved from a terrible crash, who is cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier devoted to stopping the world's most dangerous criminals.

Wonder Woman

Patty Jenkins. With Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Connie Nielsen, Robin Wright When a pilot crashes and tells of conflict in the outside world, Diana, an Amazonian warrior in training, leaves home to fight a war, discovering her full powers and true destiny.

EPISODIC

Locke and Key

Meredith Averill, Aron Eli Coleite, Carlton Cuse - With Darby Stanchfield After their father is murdered under mysterious circumstances, the three Locke siblings and their mother move into their ancestral home, Keyhouse, full of magical keys

The Irregulars

Tom Bidwell - With McKell David, Thaddea Graham, Jojo Macari Set in Victorian London, the series follows a gang of troubled street teens who are manipulated into solving crimes for the sinister Doctor Watson and his mysterious partner Sherlock Holmes.

Shadow and Bone

Eric Heisserer - With Jessie Mei Li, Archie Renaux, Freddy Carter Dark forces conspire against orphan mapmaker Alina Starkov when she unleashes an extraordinary power that could change the fate of her war-torn world.

SHOWREEL

WHAT IS VFX COMPOSITING ?

WHAT IS
VFX COMPOSITING ?