Los Angeles Visual Effects

UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA **** - ****

Bachelor of Arts - Theater (Independent study of Media)

**** ********** ** ******* – Franklin Arts and Sciences Outstanding Alumni Award 1997 Emmy – Outstanding individual achievement in a craft Address: Los Angeles, CA

Mobile: 1-310-***-****

Email: *******@*****.***

Demos:

Supervisor/ Ar st/ Chris Wells

Image Trading Company Demo

IMDb:

www.imdb.com/Chris Wells/VFX

LinkedIn:

www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-wells

C H R I S W E L L S

V I S U A L E F F E C T S / D I G I T A L S U P E R V I S O R A N D P R O D U C E R ABOUT ME EXPERIENCE

SUPERVISOR / PRODUCER IMAGE TRADING COMPANY

2013 - CURRENT Independently owned visual effects / digital creative resource for film, television, advertising, technical visualization, and all other emerging

media. Crew sizes range from just me, to a large

group of seasoned professionals depending on the

scope of work. My primary duties include VFX

supervision of entire productions, on-set

supervision, pre / post-production work,

breakdowns of both the creative scripted work,

and project budgets. I am also an “on the box”

artist, usually tackling most of the complicated 3D and 2D work using a variety of techniques, old and new.

SUPERVISOR / ARTIST

2000 - 2013

ARTIST

1994 - 1999

From staff artist to 3D Department Supervisor(1),

and then, Facility VFX Supervisor at a list of

prominent VFX Film and Commercial Production

Companies (2). I was tasked to manage large crews

on some of the biggest and most creative VFX

heavy movies and media of the time.

3D / Digital artist primarily for commercial and

new media projects(3).

EDUCATION AND AWARDS

CONTACT

Currently entering my third decade in

the post / digital field. My career began

in commercial digital production

creating 3D effects. After working

around the United States on various

projects, I decided to make Los Angeles

my home. For the next 10+ years, I

worked as a 3D and VFX Supervisor at a

few facilities working on tent-pole

Feature Films and large market Ad

Campaigns. In 2013, I decided to venture

out on my own to work on Feature Films

and all other Media related projects.

Primarily targeting Independent Films,

and “In House” marketing campaigns

under the banner of “Image Trading

Company”.

• Thirty years of experience in post-production, with twenty of those years as a facility and production side VFX Supervisor / Producer.

• Experienced at communicating creative goals to and from Directors, budget assessments, and time goals to the production team.

• A strong knowledge of all things VFX from pre-production to final delivery, i.e. script breakdown, bids, pre-vis, department head collaboration, on set supervision, editorial support, post VFX, etc.

• Focused on helping both production and VFX crews to maintain a well communicated and calm project. “Don’t panic, it’ll be fine!”

• Team sizes range from one to hundreds depending on the size of the show and the number of vendors involved.

• Literate in most VFX and post-production standard software.

• Proudly still an «on the box» artist on every show regardless of responsibility level.

STRENGTHS

Visual Effects Supervisor / Producer (Production) - FILMS Turn Me On – visual effects supervisor / vendor (Release 2024) Director: Michael Tyburski Production: Truant Pictures

- Creating digital environments and exterior locations. (3D foliage) Atmospheric effects, matte paintings, and basic set enhancements

- Digital clean up

- graphic design

- post vfx budgeting and creative reviews

Afghan Dreamers "Rule Breakers"– visual effects supervisor / vendor (Release 2024) Director: Bill Guttentag

- Digital environments and locations

- Atmospheric and “war time” effects.

- 3D animations

- Replacements, clean ups and basic comps

Saturn – visual effects supervisor / Producer (Release 2024) Director: Eric Esau Production: Mew Studios

- Creating digital environments and exterior locations. Atmospheric effects, matte paintings, actions effects, clean-up, and basic

Set enhancements, dynamic explosions

- Digital make up

- post vfx budgeting and creative reviews

- vfx supervisor and lead artist.

Summer of Violence – visual effects supervisor / vendor (Release 2024) Director: Nicki Micheaux Production: Three60 Films

- pre production design

- Creating digital sets, and exterior locations, matte paintings, Actions effects, clean-up, and make-up enhancements.

- post vfx budgeting an reviews

Susie Searches – visual effects supervisor / Producer (Release 2023) Director: Sophie Kargman Production: 141 Entertainment

- pre production script breakdown / design / pre vis

- vfx budgeting and reviews

- Creating digital environments, sets, animated CG items, matte paintings, Graphics and SPFX / make-up support.

The Valet – visual effects supervisor / vendor (Temprimental Films) Director: Richard Wong Production: Lionsgate / HULU

- Creating digital environments, sets, exterior locations, matte paintings, clean-up, and Beauty enhancements. (189 shots)

BreakWater - Visual Effects Supervisor / Producer (Release 2022) Director: Stewart Hendler and Jamieson Fry Production: SnapChat

- pre production design / pre vis / scouting

- vfx budgeting and reviews for multiple vendors

- on set shot design, supervision and elements shoots.

- Creating digital environments, sets, exterior locations, matte paintings, Weather events, clean-up, and Beauty enhancements. Blonde (Release 2022) - (Temprimental Films)

Director: Andrew Dominik Production: Plan B / Netflix

- Recreating period-based scenery

- Adding environments to photography

- Multiple face enhancements

He’s all that - (Temprimental Films)

Director: Mark Waters

- Compositing crowds

- Creating digital fire shots

- Multiple sign and phone replacements

The Unholy - (Temprimental Films)

Director: Evan Spiliotopoulos Production: Screen Gems Composited multiple digital crowds for covid safe production!

- Same scene multiple unit photography

Barb and Star go to Vista Del Mar - (Temprimental Films) Director: Josh Greenbaum Production: Lionsgate

Compositing for several internal and external greenscreen and Crowd shots

Skylines

Director: Liam Odonnel

- Composited multiple digital characters and environments Mosquito State – Visual Effects

Director: Filip Jan Rymsza

- Created digital environments including interiors and underwater scenes Susie Searches (Short) - Visual Effects Supervisor / Producer Director: Sophie Kargman

- Creation of backgrounds and environments and face replacements

- vfx budgeting and reviews

Light As A Feather - Visual Effects Supervisor / Producer Production: Awesomeness TV / HULU

- pre production design / pre vis / scouting

- vfx budgeting and reviews for multiple vendors

- on set shot design, supervision and elements shoots.

- Creating digital creatures, sets, exterior locations, matte paintings, Actions effects, clean-up, and Beauty enhancements.

“1982” - Visual Effects Supervisor - ITC

Production: Tricycles Logic Director: Oualid Mouaness

- Creating end sequence of war and destruction to blend with cell animated character.

- designed destruction look of retro feel of 1982 Lebanon Seberg (Against all enemies) - Visual Effects

Production: Nelly Films / NETFLIX

- Replacing environments and exterior locations.

- Production fixes / editorial splits / beauty work The Unsettling – Visual effects supervisor - (Temprimental Films) Production: Awesomness TV

- Creating smoke and fires in background

- production fixes

- enhanced production fire and destruction

Point Blank - Visual Effects

Production: Netflix

- Replacing environments and exterior locations.

- QC Fixes

Robert The Bruce - Visual Effects Supervisor / VFX producer Production: Yellow Brick Films Director: Richard Gray

- Creating digital environments and exterior locations. Atmospheric effects, matte paintings,

actions effects, clean-up, and basic set enhancements.

- post vfx budgeting and creative reviews

- vfx supervisor and lead artist.

- Title design

Destroyer - Visual Effects Supervisor / VFX producer Production: 30West / automatic entertainment Dist: Annapurna Pictures Director: Karyn Kusama

- pre production design / pre vis / scouting

- on set shot design, supervision and elements shoots.

- Creating digital sets, and exterior locations, matte paintings, Actions effects, clean-up, and Beauty enhancements.

- post vfx budgeting an reviews for multiple vendors To All The Boys I Loved Before - Visual Effects Supervisor / VFX producer Production: Awesomeness Films Dist: Netflix Director: Susan Johnson

- Creating beauty fixes, simple editorial adjustments and screen comps.

- vfx supervisor and lead artist.

Unicorn Store - Visual Effects Supervisor / VFX producer Production: Sycamore Pictures Director: Brie Larson

- pre-production planning and budgeting for vfx shoot days

- Supplying creative effects and enhancements for "magical" scenes

- onset vfx design, supervision, and data wrangling.

- post vfx budgeting an reviews

The Female Brain - Visual Effects Supervisor / VFX producer Production: Black Bicycle Entertainment Director: Whitney Cummings

-Supervised and produced and designed basic splits, clean ups, beauty work and screen inserts.

Hot Summer Nights - Visual Effects Supervisor / VFX producer Production: Imperative Entertainment Dist: A24 Director: Elijah Bynum

- pre-production planning and budgeting for 32 day shoot

- Supervising an producing for multiple vendors

- Creating 3d and 2d atmospheric effects, enhanced action shots and location replacement - post vfx budgeting an reviews

- Title design and creation.

Live to Tell (Aka “The Warfighters”) - Visual Effects Supervisor / VFX producer (in Post Production)

Production: Film 45 / The History Channel Director: Stewart Hendler

- Enhancing and creating recreations for a war time narrative.

- Action effects, 3d sets and vehicles.

- pre-production planning and budgeting for an 8 episode shoot.

- onset vfx design and supervision

- post vfx artistic supervision and scheduling.

Max Steel - Visual Effects Supervisor

Production: Mattel / Dolphin Films. Dist: Open Road Films Director: Stewart Hendler

-Creating the digital character (our co-star ) “Steel”

- Supplying energy effects, fluid effects, 3D sets, digital doubles, matte paintings, action effects, clean –up, and one very large digital creature.

- pre production vfx designer /pre visualization / shot budgeting / and show planning for financiers.

- onset vfx design, supervision, and data wrangling.

- vfx supervisor for shows vendors / lead artist / vfx quality control for @500 vfx shots/ maintaining shot schedule with vendors.

Escape Plan – Visual Effects Supervisor

Production: Summit Entertainment / Emmit - Furla films. Dist: Summit Entertainment

Director: Mikael Hafstrom

- Creating fully digital vehicles, sets, and exterior locations. Digital doubles, matte paintings,

Actions effects, clean-up, and set enhancements.

- pre production design / pre vis / scouting

- on set shot design and supervision and elements shoots.

- vfx supervisor and lead artist.

Take shelter – Visual Effects Supervisor

Production: Hydraulx Films Dist: Sony Classic Films Director: Jeff Nichols

- Created large storms, backgrounds, weather patterns, flocking birds, fully digital interior and clean-ups.

- pre production consulting / scouting

- vfx supervision / lead artist / shot management

Visual Effects Supervisor (facility)

2012 Looper (hydraulx) – Dir: Rian Johnson

Primary visual effects vendor. Actor enhancements and modifications, set recreations, digital

Vehicles, weapons, blood, explosion enhancement.

2011 Captain America (LOLA fx) – Dir: Joe Johnston Augmenting “Red Skull” facial features. Beauty work. 2010 Jonah Hex (Hydraulx) - Dir: “Warner Bros”

Primary visual effects vendor. Digital scene creation, digital actor, vehicle and animal creation.

Enhance and create weapons, and action elements.

2011 Green Lantern (Hydraulx) - Dir: Martin Campbell

- Digital character (Head) replacement and alien vehicles. 2010 The A-Team (Hydraulx)– Dir: Joe Carnahan

Complete digital environments (cities), multiple digital characters, vehicles, and action elements.

2010 The Book of Eli (Hydraulx)– Dir: “Hughes Brothers” Complete digital environments and vehicles. Action elements . 2009 “2012” (Hydraulx)– Dir: Roland Emmerich

Complete digital environments / set replacements. Digital vehicles and actors. Fluid dynamics.

2009 Aliens in the Attic (Hydraulx)– Dir: John Schultz Digital set, sky and environment replacements. Minor action elements. 2008 Bedtime Stories (Hydraulx) - Dir: Adam Shankman Full digital environments and sets. Digital characters and crowds. Dynamic simulations / action

Elements.

2008 The Incredible Hulk (Hydraulx) - Dir: Louis Leterrier Action elements, integration of “Hulk” into live action scenes. Digital actor and vehicle creation.

Monster creation / animation. Digital environments. 2005 Deuce Bigalow 2 (Zoic Studios) – Dir: Mike Bigelow Digital sets, beauty work, vehicles and all sorts of assorted nonsense. VFX Support Supervision/artist:

2011 - Battle Los Angeles

2010 - Gulliver's Travels

2010 - Skyline

2010 - Knight and Day

2009 - Avatar

3D Supervisor(hydraulx):

2009 - Case 39

2008 - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

2008 - Meet Dave

2008 - Jumper

2007 - AVPR: Aliens vs Predator - Requiem

2007 - The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising

2007 - The Invasion

2007 - Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer

2007 - Live Free or Die Hard

2007 - Shooter

2006 - 300

2006 - X-Men: The Last Stand

2006 - Poseidon

2005 - Æon Flux

2005 - Syriana

2005 - The Fog

2004 - Venom

2004 – Fantastic Four

2004 – The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lava Girl

Artist:

2004 - The Day After Tomorrow

2004 - Van Helsing

2004 - Torque

2003 - Looney Tunes: Back in Action

1996 – Fled (MacQuarium)

COMMERCIALS – Artist:

Hydraulx – 3D supervisor

- Clients: Alpine, Apple, Coke (America), Coke (China), Crest, Fresca, Jeep, Lincoln, Norfolk Southern, PlayStation, Scion, Starbucks, US Marines Digital Labs / Sight Effects – 3D Artist

- Clients: Capri Sun, Computer Associates, EDS, Gateway, Geico, Lexus, MySAP, Nexium, UPS

Click3X – 3D Artist:

Clients: Applebees, Baush and Lomb, Texaco, Ciba Vision, Coke, Cox Cable, Disney Store, Fairview Health, FTD, GTE, HP, IBM, Jumex Juice, Maxfli, The Learning Channel, McDonalds, Mello Yello, Motorola, NASDAQ, Niklaus Golf, Nortel, Office Max, OPEL, Pepsi, Regio, South Trust Bank, Independent: Star Trek Defiant “DVD”

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