[digital] Visual Effects and Compositing

Introduction

Over the past 20 plus years, I’ve done just about every job imaginable in the worlds of movies, TV, radio, and music—from writing, producing, directing, and visual effects supervising to cinematography, recording, and even performing. I’m one of those fortunate people who has always just known what they wanted to do... make movies.

I made my first “film” at four years old (see Figure 1) by hijacking my father’s 8mm film camera and sneaking outside to surreptitiously film the gardener. It was by no means an epic, but even at that young age, I was already fascinated with movies. I had been bitten by the bug that early filmmakers called ...