News / Updates Portfolio Resume Links Contact ![]() Designer/Compositor email: ff [at] cameronneilson.com ![]() |
_CURRENT EMPLOYER
Industrial Light & Magic, San Francisco, CA
_FILM EXPERIENCE
Senior Compositor
Transformers: Age of Extinction, Noah, The Lone Ranger, Pacific Rim, Star Trek Into Darkness, Now You See Me, The Avengers, Cirque Du Soleil, Thor, The Other Guys, Iron Man 2, Tree of Life, 2012, Ninja Assassin, Star Trek, Benjamin Button, Speed Racer, Rush Hour 3, Pirates of the Caribbean 3, Fantastic Four 2, Spiderman 3, Happy Feet, World Trade Center, Poseidon, The Producers, Fantastic Four, Catwoman, The Matrix: Reloaded, The Matrix: Revolutions
_PREVIOUS WORK EXPERIENCE
Evil Eye Pictures, San Francisco, CA
_SKILLS / SOFTWARECompositing Supervisor, Designer, Tools Developer | Winter 2006 - Summer 2012 _Managed Compositing Department and Dept Tools _Creative Direction of Show Assets _Develop/Maintain Production & Pipeline Tools Giant Killer Robots, San Francisco, CA Senior Compositor / Designer | Spring 2005 - Winter 2006 _Shake Compositor, After Effects, and some 3D for various films. _Designed, built, and managed GKR Intranet. Created MySQL/ASP webapp tools for Asset Management, Production Data (show/seq/shot info, camera reports) and Client Feedback Tracking. ESC Entertainment, Alameda, CA Chief Graphic Designer / Compositor | Fall 2002 - Fall 2004 _Shake Compositor, Graphic Designer, Motion-Graphics Artist for: The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions, The Ladykillers, Catwoman, & Constantine. _Managed ESC Corporate Identity. Designed, built and managed internal & external websites. Freelance Designer, San Francisco, CA Fall 2000 - Fall 2002 _Various Print, Web, and Video projects. Embark.com, San Francisco, CA Senior Graphic Designer, Creative Director | Fall 1998 - Fall 2000 _Built, managed, and mentored a team of designers and production artists. Managed scheduling for multiple design projects. _Co-Managed site wide redesign of embark.com from conception to implementation. Freelance Designer, San Francisco, CA Winter 1998 - Fall 1998 Center for Information Design, Saratoga Springs, NY Designer / 3D Artist | Fall 1997 - Winter 1998 _Projects ranged from Print & Web Design, to full 3D CG services, including the modeling, animation, lighting, and production of a CG short for the Asia Society NYC.
Primary Software
_EDUCATIONNuke, Maya, Shake, After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere, Final Cut Pro Secondary Software Silhouette, Combustion, Commotion, Dreamweaver, Boujou, MS Office Other Expert with PC, Macintosh, Unix / Linux. Expert in Python, PHP, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Ajax, JQuery, ASP. Familiar with MEL, C++, Perl
Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
_OTHERFall 1993 - Spring 1997 BS - Fine Art, with focus in Graphic Design and Computer Animation Academy of Art College, San Francisco, CA 1998 - 1999 Additional classes in Maya
Freelance Photographer
_Work Published in Food & Wine, Sunset, & 7x7 Magazines |