In Depth

Short Film

January - August 2023

Junior Compositor

IMDB

I originally joined In Depth as a Roto/Prep Artist during my first year of study at Escape Studios. Upon joining the project at the start of the post-production stage, I took on the role of Compositor due to a lack of overall artists.

Throughout this project I was learning a lot of new skillsets and techniques that would greatly benefit me into a head start of knowledge down the road. I practised some of my first keying work, with greenscreen footage, where I struggled with despilling and refining the thin hair detail of the actors. I was also learning about the process involved in virtual production at the same time using unreal engine in a direct link to nuke with the unreal reader node. This was and still remains a new process so we often found ourselves struggling with issues never seen before and have to work our way around them.

Overall this was the first big project I worked on. It taught me much about the process, pipeline, skills and teamwork I would have to develop for future projects, and am thankful for the opportunity to have worked on it. It is not the best work I have produced but it remains one of my favourite for it was the start of my career working as an artist