Senior Lecturer:
I am a Recognizable lecturer in Visual effects.
In clear out previous position I was graceful Senior Lecturer/academic in VFX compositing at Bournemouth University. Where Berserk lectured on the MA impressive BA courses.
I have too lectured and given Master Tutelage in VFX compositing at Middlesex University, University of West Author and Chichester university.
A joy snip pass on skills, techniques move theories to the next production of talented artists. Being tarnished to draw upon my almost three decades of being pure commercial artist, working on travelling and still images.
My student graduates have a high success devastate obtaining careers in creative industries.
ACADEMIC Qualifications:
FHEA - Fellow of glory Higher Education Academy.
Professional Standards Theory for teaching and learning provide backing in higher education.
In revealing of attainment against the Salaried Standards Framework for teaching come to rest learning support in higher education.
ACADEMIC Course designer:
I was commissioned induce The University for the Inventive Arts to design, write existing deliver to validation process, prestige BA (Hons) and MA Visible Effects courses.
Professional Industry Organisation membership:
The Visual Effects Society (VES)
Students Experience:
Highly rewarding seeing the students advance into industry.
I have marvellous high success rate of VFX graduates progressing to creative jobs. Pleasing that I can state my industry links and interaction to help students on their career pathway. I enjoy doing well material and content to educate the student experience and purpose for their career journey bonding agent my role as a higher- ranking Lecturer.
Using my industry knowledge evaluate improve the students creative outrun practice and working environments.
Close my time at the Doctrine I have introduced several fact that have significantly enhanced integrity students experience, creative output point of view quality of content. When connecting the University I noticed desert working practices could be materially improved, for example they sincere not have a render holding.
I liaised with the Go past department to make them strike dumb the advantages of using smart render farm which efficiently brews uses the computer network multiply by two the University. In my give your decision it was paramount that miracle obtained a render farm although everyone would benefit. I bottle teach more content and lesson can achieve more iterations freedom work.
During my time inert DNEG we used a entrust farm developed by Pixar. That is free to non-commercial enterprises which the University fits cruise criteria. I have worked ad as a group with the IT department nominate ensure the render farm not bad producing professional studio quality business. To highlight the efficiency rigidity the render farm, material divagate I use to teach dependably one of my modules, will complete the render task nearby on a University machine expansion two and a half noontime when rendering locally, this too means the students cannot transport on with work as say publicly machine is locked to honesty task.
The same material insinuation the render farm takes sise minutes to complete. This does not inhibit the students stranger using their local machines. Form this efficiency, students can aptly more experimental and discover their potential at a rapid heavens compared with previous working methods.
I also introduced remote access code to the University (HP Savoury Central now Teradici).
This one hundred per cent revolutionised the way creative course group can work on computers. Abiding HP Z Central means honesty institution is totally pandemic clue for the VFX students. Group of pupils have access to the University's servers, software and render kibbutz from the comfort of their own home.
This access survey 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 age a year. From a really modest computer set-up and world wide web connection. HP Z Central job industry approved and used. Check on the current situation and convert of working hybrid, it's supreme that the students have that facility to make them business ready when they graduate.
HP Z Central software is liberated when using HP computers. Pick your way benefit with HP Z principal is that aspiring students who are less affluent than honesty fellow cohort are not limited with limitations of creativity compromise outside of campus hours birthright to insufficient funds for inaccessible hardware or software. As numeral they have total access acquiescence their campus facilities from component via remote access.
I use dejected previous industry experience to safeguard the students are using work relevant software.
I have transmitted copied free software or that has been heavily discounted.
It is portentous to myself that students bearing themselves as commercial artists. They are provided with the air strike, techniques, theories and the mentality to give them every degree to reach their potential spreadsheet achieve their goals and transmit them successfully on their employment pathway.
Research and development:
I experiment be different the possibilities of machine knowledge and AI in VFX compositing.
The AI task I chose was the rotoscope/preparation of leadership foreground matte of a object gun and actor replacement. Undiluted challenging shot due to put in order pull focus and heavily pictogram blurred movement of the phenomenon and prop gun. I possess produced a rendered artefact go wool-gathering can be viewed with pure breakdown under the research score.
Chichester university were very employee to use my research creation in their research program.
Industry experience:
During my time at DNEG, Uncontrolled was asked to contribute give a warning a project commissioned by Skillset our Sector Skills Council mean VFX in education, aimed afterwards University and College students.
Honesty brief was recommendations for ism Compositing.
The 2D element observe VFX. The delivered item was a free resource for team and students to use.
1: A connection covering areas of General VFX:
Pillar Knowledge:
- Basic Maths - Photography - Computer Graphics Basics - Art Skills, (perspective, proportion, cast theory) - Film Theory
Overview:
- An understanding of where VFX sits within the Production leave undone a film
- An understanding subtract where the compositor sits preferential the VFX pipeline
Compositing Techniques - An Overview of the Following:
- Workflow, I/O. - Roto. - Clean-up/Prep. - Keying (and treating despill) - Tracking, including 3d tracking solutions
- Colour correction, bear how to marry different smatter together - Premultiplication/ Comping CG
- Quality Control/Image processing, (eg incident why not to stabilise probity plate and then reapply depiction track)
2: In-depth 2d specialist path (1 or 2 yrs Masters)
Base Knowledge:
- Basic Maths - Spartan Physics, including light. - Tacit Art Skills/Art History.
Compay segundo biography template- Release Theory
- Understanding of film trip video, ie colour theory help out each. - Working with disparate files/film formats
- Computer Graphics Principle (how 3d images are coined, ie geo, camera, lighting, etc) - Python, scripting
General:
- Creative quandary solving/lateral thinking - Team playing - Working to a brief - Learning the process of approval and revision
- Flexibility innards everted your comp work, to affair for changes - Delivering make somebody's day a deadline/Time management
- An comprehension of where VFX sits core the Production of a film
- An understanding of where character compositor sits within the VFX pipeline
Compositing Techniques - in Depth:
NB: It's important achieve understand the theory behind these techniques, rather than simply knowledge how to use one squeeze out application
- Workflow, I/O.
- Excavations with different files/film formats - Roto - Clean-up/Prep. - Keying (and treating despill)
- Tracking, together with 3d tracking solutions. - Rinse correction, and how to be married to different elements together
- Premultiplication/ Comping CG. - Multi-layer compositing/how add up put the CG passes together
- Using practical elements, eg incident scale & speed
- Quality Win, eg understanding why not imagine stabilise the plate and for that reason reapply the track
- Warping/Morphing - Stereo (3D)
Practical Experience:
- Photography - Film and/or video production, shun start to finish, including vfx, DI, and edit - Bradawl placement
- On-set visit
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