Puss in Boots
Dreamworks Animation’s Fall 2011 release of Puss in Boots, details the origin story of everyone’s favorite feline from the Shrek franchise. I worked as a Lighting and Compositing Artist for...
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Megamind
Dreamworks Animation’s 2010 Release Megamind, tells the story of what happens when a super villain is left without a super hero to battle. The villain is forced to become the...
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Legend of the Boneknapper Dragon
How to Train Your Dragon: Legend of the Boneknapper is a short film taking place after the events of the first film. Hiccup, Astrid, Tuffnut, Ruffnut, Snotlout and Fishlegs put...
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Shrek Forever After
Shrek Forever After marks the conclusion of Dreamworks Animation’s highly successful Shrek franchise. I joined the film to light and composite shots in the Dungeon escape...
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How To Train Your Dragon
How to Train Your Dragon was my first film at Dreamworks Animation. I joined the film near the end, lighting several shots on the film as well as several Dragon...
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A Christmas Carol
I was hired to work at Image Movers Digital (Los Angeles) to do “911″ work on Disney’s A Christmas Carol. My work was mostly in the Bob Cratchit “ice skating”...
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Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs takes it’s story for the highly successful children’s book of the same name. Sony Pictures Animation expanded on the book and created a whole...
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BOLT
My first feature animated film was Disney Picture’s BOLT. For over 9 months I was tasked with lighting and compositing shots in the movie across sequences and teams. In addition,...
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The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
My final project at Rhythm and Hues was in assisting the development of the look of the Yeti characters featured in Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. Over a few...
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Meet The Robinsons
While working at Digital Domain I was crewed on Meet the Robinson stereoscopic conversion project. Our work consisted of taking the flat 2d plates generated from Disney Animation and converting...
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The Golden Compass
While working at Rhythm and Hues I was crewed on the Academy Award Winning The Golden Compass as a co-lighting lead on the ending sequence of the movie. My work consisted...
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Happy Feet
Rhythm and Hues was awarded overflow work from Warner Brothers’ smash hit and Academy Award Winning Happy Feet. I became the main Lighting Lead on this project, with two teams...
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Superman Returns
As the Lighting Lead for the newly created Houdini Lighting team on Warner Brothers’ Superman Returns I was first tasked with creating documentation and training for all lighters. From that...
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COX Communications
While working at Rhythm and Hues I worked on several commercials for COX Communications which launched their new digital spokesperson, Digital Max. I lit and composited many shots as well...
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Constantine
While working at CIS Hollywood, I was brought on for the final month of working on Warner Brothers’ adaptation of the DC comic Hellblazer; Constantine. My duties were modeling and...
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Ultraviolet
While working on Sony Picture’s Ultraviolet at CIS Hollywood I was tasked with modeling and texturing a futuristic city based on the modern city of Shanghai. Using reference photos I...
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Garfield
My second project at Rhythm and Hues was Fox’s Garfield where I lit many shots across several sequences integrating Garfield into the live action...
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Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
My first project at Rhythm and Hues was Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed. Being a big Scooby Doo fan this was a great film to work on. I quickly because...
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Graduate Thesis
My final focus of research while at Ohio State was on HDRI and IBI. My graduate thesis direction was to appeal to those without lighting skills who still wanted to...
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