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Steve Wright, a senior digital effects artist with over 20 years
of production experience, has created digital effects shots for
over 60 feature films and 70 broadcast television commercials.
He has extensive production experience over a wide range of features
including such films as "Air Force One", "Ali", "Batman & Robin",
and many, many others. His production experience includes IMAX
films, image processing, film restoration, cgi, titling, and even
stereoscopic ride films. In addition to digital effects, Steve
also worked within Cinesite's digital intermediate group
so his expertise includes several years experience with the digital
intermediate post-production process. He is also a writer, speaker,
lecturer, and trainer on digital effects and digital intermediate
and has published a highly rated book on digital compositing. Steve
now offers his extensive digital effects and digital intermediate
expertise on a consulting and freelance basis.
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IMDb link: Steve
Wright IV
Book link: "Digital Compositing for Film and Video"
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Visual Effects Supervisor
Steve has extensive production experience with 2D and 3D digital
effects on big budget feature films in studios large and small.
His detailed understanding of the technical issues and production
procedures for the creation of digital effects makes him an excellent
candidate for visual effects supervisor. He is highly experienced
with storyboard breakdowns, scene planning, and well qualified
for visual effects studio selection and qualification.
Digital Intermediate Supervisor
For several years Steve was the Technical Director for Kodak's
Cinesite Digital Intermediate (now Laser Pacific) and has shepherded
a dozen feature films through the DI process. He has an in-depth
understanding of how to set up a feature film for a smooth DI experience
including the visual effects shots, opticals, and titling. The
DI process is a new technology and does not yet have established
industry practices which makes it difficult for filmmakers to prepare
and make good choices. As your Digital Intermediate Supervisor,
Steve will select and qualify the most cost-effective DI facility
that is appropriate for your feature, coach your editorial, post-production,
and digital effects staff on how to prepare for a DI, and be your
representative at the DI facility to smooth its flow through the
process.
Digital Effects Consulting
Highly experienced working with 35mm film as well as video, Steve's
production experience goes beyond digital effects to include image
processing, film restoration, digital cel animation, digital intermediate,
and digital cinema. Beyond his extensive production experience,
he has also mastered the science and math behind these processes
and has published a very popular book on the subject, "Digital
Compositing for Film and Video". If you need an expert on
digital effects on your business team, Steve is the man for you.
Author and Writer
Steve Wright has extensive publishing credits in the fields of
digital effects and digital intermediate. In addition to authoring
his own popular book on digital compositing, has also written the
corporate Digital Intermediate "white paper" for DIP
R-evolution's Assimilate 2K color corrector product and published
several articles on the Digital Intermediate film finishing process.
If you need an expert on digital processes to write technical or
marketing documents for your business, Steve is the writer for
you.
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Articles page
Speaker and Lecturer
Steve is also a highly rated speaker and lecturer on the subjects
of digital effects, digital intermediate, and digital cinema. His
many speaking engagements include: Siggraph; keynote speaker at
trade symposiums; and guest lecturer at RIT (Rochester Institute
of Technology). His talks are highly informative, entertaining,
and richly supported with visual examples. Steve is also the author
of the highly rated book on digital effects, "Digital Compositing
for Film and Video" (Amazon.com).
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Freelance Digital Effects
As a freelance digital effects compositor, Steve produces feature
film effects shots using a Mac G5 with Shake 4.0. His extensive
production experience guarantees excellent technical and artistic
work which can be turned around on a very tight schedule. Steve
regularly delivers 2k feature film compositing and is an expert
on compositing Cineon or DPX log images. Jobs are sent and received
on DVD, firewire drives, and ftp sites.
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Digital Effects page
Feature Film Titling
Steve has also completed the titling (main titles, lower thirds,
subtitles, end titles, end crawl) for 19 projects, almost all for
feature films. He is expert in compositing titles over 2k feature
film log images plus creating title safe versions for 4x3 pan and
scan. Jobs are sent and received on DVD, firewire drives, and ftp
sites.
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Title Credits page
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Shake or Cineon Training
Steve is also a master trainer and an expert on Cineon and Shake
compositing software. His Shake training clients include Kodak's
film engineering department in Rochester, NY, plus Masters'
Classes on Shake compositing for PixelCorps in San Francisco. His
advanced Shake training includes productivity tips, creating macros,
compositing with log film scans, and cgi compositing with log images.
Training materials are provided, prepared in advance and customized
to the requirements of the facility.
Log (Logarithmic) Image Compositing
Steve is one of the most experienced and knowledgeable senior
compositors on the arcane subject of compositing log images for
feature film. With eight years of production experience at Kodak's
Cinesite, he learned the science and math of compositing log images
from Kodak's original creators of the process. Expert in
both the art and science, Steve can teach your staff how to pull
mattes and composite with log images, combine linear elements such
as matte paintings or HiDef video with log images, properly composite
and color correct linear cgi elements with log images, and convert
all cgi shots to log space and color correct them. On-site hands-on
training experiences of a couple days to one week or more are available.
Training materials and images are provided.
Master Compositor Training
Regardless of the platform or the brand of compositing software
you use, there are universally applied principles for all digital
effects compositing. Steve will train your staff on the core techniques
of matte extraction, despill, compositing, color correction, motion
tracking, 2D animation, wire and rig removal, plus warps and morphs.
A special emphasis is placed on productivity techniques to enhance
the throughput of the digital artist in order to shorten production
schedules and lower costs to ensure the financial success of the
digital effects facility.
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