VFX Artist Spotlight Series #07 - The Compositor
Details
The Compositor – Stylization – Tips and Tricks
with Chris Van Dyck
Date
Wednesday, March 26th, 2014
Time
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
RSVP
*To register on-line see form at the bottom of the page (http://vesvancouver.com/events/vfx-artist-spotlights/the-compositor/#Register)
- Please be advised that no pictures or video are permitted during this event (due to the sensitive nature of some of the material)
Presented By – The Foundry- Nuke (http://www.thefoundry.co.uk/products/nuke/) , Visual Effects Society – Vancouver Section , Lost Boys | School of Visual Effects (http://www.lostboys-studios.com/)
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Special thanks to our event sponsor
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Overview
The primary focus of this talk will showcase the mindset of a Compositor for ILM/Weta and Compositing Supervisor for Method Studios . He will speak about his experience regarding the following:
The process of Stylization, Colour Correction, & selective treatments (in camera effects and atmospherics ) & how it can be essential to telling a story within each shot.
How to build some custom flares, lens dirt, lens hits in nuke
He will also showcase some examples over his career for stylization. ie. 300 / Tron / Mass Effect 2 & 3
Some breakdowns for Stylization in here.. http://vimeo.com/73670420
Speaker Bio
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Chris van Dyck
Chris van Dyck is a Vancouver-based VFX and Compositing supervisor in the commercial, film, and television industry. With a decade of experience, he has worked at some of the top studios around the world: WETA Digital, Industrial Light & Magic, MPC, Rising Sun Pictures, Animal Logic, The Embassy and Prime Focus. Some of his most notable credits include: The Hobbit 1 & 2, Thor 2, Life of Pi, Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon, Tron: Legacy, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Ironman and Frank Miller’s: 300.
For four years, Chris was VFX Supervisor and co-founder at Faction Creative, an award-winning boutique style visual effects company that employed over 25 people and delivered effects for such shows as: Underworld 4, Apollo 18, H Plus: the digital series, Lost, Killers, Mass Effect 2 & 3, Invictus, and the Haunting Hour. Currently he is a board member on the VES: Vancouver Chapter and is working as the Lead Compositor on Game of Thrones at Look FX.chrisvandyck.com (http://www.chrisvandyck.com/)
Artist Demo Reel
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Select Speaker Credits
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Come join us as Chris shares his vast experiences working with various VFX Pipelines.
Event Location
Lost Boys | School of Visual Effects (http://www.lostboys-studios.com/)
Suite 200 – 495 Railway Street
Vancouver, B.C. Canada
Email: contact@lostboys-studios.com
Studio Phone: (604)558-4999
*Plenty of free street parking available along Railway Street and Jackson Ave.
Annex Pro (http://www.annexpro.com/)
Annex Pro is a Vancouver, BC-based VAR* for software, hardware and IT infrastructure to the Media & Entertainment Industry. Since 1983, Annex Pro has been consulting, training, and supporting the creation of visual effects, animation, games, TV/film and all kinds of digital media. Discover our product list (http://www.annexpro.com/products/)
Visual Effects Society (http://vesvancouver.com/)The Visual Effects Society (VES) is the entertainment industry’s only organization representing the full breadth of visual effects practitioners including artists, technologists, model makers, educators, studio leaders, supervisors, PR/marketing specialists and producers in all areas of entertainment from film, television and commercials to music videos and games. Comprised of a diverse group of more than 2,500 members in 29 countries, the VES strives to enrich and educate its own members and members of the entertainment community at large through a multitude of domestic and international events, screenings and programs.
Lost Boys | School of Visual Effects (http://www.lostboys-studios.com/)Based in Vancouver Canada, Lost Boys | School of VFX is North America’s top dedicated visual effects school offering an intensive ten month Visual Effects Compositing Program and an eight month Effect Technical Director Program. Boasting over a 98% placement rate, Lost Boys is the preeminent school of visual effects. For more information please visit our website at www.lostboys-studios.com (http://www.lostboys-studios.com/), www.lostboys-vfx.com (http://www.lostboys-vfx.com/) or join us on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/SchoolOfVFX .
The Foundry – Nuke (http://www.thefoundry.co.uk/products/nuke/)The company's award-winning NUKE (http://www.thefoundry.co.uk/products/nuke/) compositing product was born out of industry-proven technology developed at Digital Domain. An aggressive development schedule has created a product that is today the de facto standard in VFX compositing. A key addition has been support for stereoscopic imagery and the OCULA (http://www.thefoundry.co.uk/products/ocula/) toolset, which have facilitated VFX on groundbreaking productions including AVATAR, TRON: LEGACY and HUGO, winner of the 2012 Oscar® for Best Visual Effects
NUKE is the industry standard Swiss army knife for film, battle tested on the most ambitious visual effects projects ever attempted and proven to deliver a robust pipeline able to adapt and scale to any production demand.
VFX Artist Spotlight Series #07 - The Compositor