VISUAL EFFECTS SUPERVISION

Visual effects supervision involves the design, production and creative approach and orientation to improbable or impossible events, historical or fictional encounters in realities or environments we do not know specifically as a reality, or as imaginative fantastical places of a future we have not yet experienced, (where  an unhindered science fiction may become science fact through stories, dreams or hallucinations). Visual effects is a way of looking at the world interpretively to solve problems which exist between a believable understanding of the perception of our realities  and the interpretative world of the imagination. Generally we use science and mathematics to  simulate the same reality in a manipulatable, dynamic 2d and 3d representative environment, where the minutiae  of reality can be re-enacted using captured imagery, computer technology and/or scaled model technologies and the human practice of artifice.  Visual effects exists in the realm of suspended belief and surprise, and involves holding the many collective parties collaboratively together through a design stage (where possibility has a grounding in interpretation through specialist equipment, practices and achievable creative tolerances enacted by mind, body and specialised tool), a production stage (where replication and simulation blend the analogue with the digital in the liminal stage to reveal a new understandings about reality) and the reception and iterative stage (where the lucidity of production finds its grounding in new reality.

TED LASSO SERIES FOR APPLE+

Ted Lasso follows the antics, events and politics of a best intentioned American football coach joining Richmond FC in London, England. Unbeknownst to Ted Lasso (Jason Sedakis) English football is a slightly different game. The series featured a number of shots that had to be filmed in a Premiership football stadium simulating Richmond FC meeting some of the more well known English football teams. Because of contactual obligations regarding Premiership television rights it was not possible to film the match sequences in a Premiership stadium on a match day with full crowd. Crystal Palace stadium was used as a background to match day shots. A separate exterior match shoot for the on pitch action was shot at night under floodlight on a separate athletics pitch with blue screen sections & hoardings around the pitch to enable some separation for main action. Crowd section were filmed where possible with the numbers of extras in the stadium alongside sprites for background crowd, so that matched pitch foreground action, background stadium & additional crowds could be added cost effectively for the match scenes and sequences of cast on the pitch during match days. Main episodes in Ted Lasso Series 1 with VFX were "The Hope that Kills You", "Tan Lines" and "Biscuits"

with  directors Tom Marshall, Elliott Hegarty, MJ Delaney with producer Tina Pawlik & show runner Bill Lawrence.

Korn Ferry "Be More Than" Commercial was directed by Nono Ayuso & produced by Aziza Bhattia, Alice Windeler & Danny Fagerson for Salt TV. The commercial was shot in London & Madrid by DOP Xavier Amores with grade by Danny Wood, CG Tony Landais and  Flame Eldon Snellgrove, Carl 

 Grinter VFX Supervised & VFX Produced the commercial involving animation of flying pancakes, removal of car and skateboard rigs. 

Greenies 20 second stop frame animated commercial   VFX Supervision and VFX Production for rig removals and separate layers of background and animation which were cleaned up and composited using Flame for

director Jeff Low, producer Kwok Yau at Biscuit Filmworks for advertising agency Adam and Eve DDB.

National Museum of Qatar gallery 8 narrative immersive film projection - VFX Supervision and VFX production of social history film completing VFX shots enhancing horse and soldier numbers at 8K resolution  for director Peter Webber, producer Kwok Yau, exec producer Ricardo Cebellas for  Doha Film Institute to tell the story of Qatari tribes uniting under one flag.

National Museum of Qatar Gallery 8 narrative film projected at large scale on the wall of Gallery 8 required extensive testing to ensure its immersive scale didn't make audiences fall over and feel nauseous. Films installation was supervised for  projection into the museum for director Peter Webber, producer Kwok Yau and Exec Producer Ricardo Cebellas at Doha Film Institute.

Bohemian Rhapsody feature film VFX shots supplier  for close up performance shots retouching prosthetics, adding lighting interactions to stage shots for DNEG VFX Supervisor Paul Norris.

American Assassin feature film VFX shots supplier for previz & post viz helicopter shots, fight scenes in penthouse apartment requiring compositing of background, rig removals, blood splatters to DNEG.

Doritos Heatwave commercial undertaking VFX supervision/VFX production by Carl Grinter for director Jeff Low, producer Kwok Yau at production company Biscuit Filmworks for advertising agency AMV BBDO. The dragon character was a puppet operated on set by two puppeteers who were removed from all shot with any rigs or scaffolds. Fire plates were shot separately and composited into shots with Nick Bennet and Russ Shaw. Computer animated balloon created by Dave Childs.

ITV Dancing on Ice Pre show 90 second titles produced by Sam Rees-Jones for Lifted Entertainment & ITV Studios to reveal the 12 new contestants starring in the show with Jane Torville & Christopher Dean. The Pre-title was directed by Robin Mason and shot against green screen by DOP Nick Brown. The London environments were CG animated and composited by Brian King with Carl Grinter VFX supervising & producing the project for ITV Studios.

Cadbury's Creme Eggs 50 years celebration commercial VFX Shots for director Zac Ella and producer Phil Myers at Craft Films and agency Elvis Communications with CG artist Tony Landais, Nuke artist 

Alex Hulse & Flame artist Eldon Snelgrove.

Iceland "Power of Frozen" campaign commercials and sponsorships  across 1 year of campaigns undertaking   VFX Supervision and VFX production for director Alan Friel at production company 76 and advertising agency Karmarama. Requirements were clean up and retouch of food and meals, addition of dynamic atmosphere effects and finishing.

Tiffany & Co Diamonds 130th Anniversary commercial VFX production, grade & retouch post production for director Dan Tobin Smith at Dan Tobin Smith Studio with Art Partner London

Apple iMac Pro Colour Clouds sequence for 2017 iMac Pro Launch on-set supervision and VFX production for director Dan Tobin Smih at Dan Tobin Smith Studio.

Red Light Short Film post production supervision for grade and finishing for director Joe Marcantonio (Feature debut Kindred (2020), producer Dominic Morris for Serotonin Films.

Beat Short Film with  VFX and post production supervision, grade and finishing for director Aneil Karia starring Ben Whishaw who Aneil has recently teamed up with again for debut feature Surge (2020)

Suzuki Vitara car launch commercial with VFX supervision and VFX production by Carl Grinter for director Michael Geoghegan and producer Ella Sanderson at Partizan Films for advertising agency Noah London with Peter Muggleston producing. Commercial featured car and crowd replication and street enhancement to fill the environments with Suzuki Vitara's, people and celebration bunting. Vic Parker graded.

Lexus NX car commercial content film following Lexus ambassador Will.I.am using the Lexus agility and road holding to reenact a live rendition of his music along a time line with VFX and post production supervision for  car launch film  for director Richard De Aragues and immersive art team Marshmallow Laser Feast with production company Minds Eye for PR and Comms agency Freuds.

Arts Council funded Fallen Circus 60 minute film VFX Supervision and VFX production for director Shelly Love with CG & 2D matte painted environments from green screen edit with CG artist Brian King.

Neil Gibson's Twisted Dark Graphic Novel Short Film 2D animation & post production supervision for His Dark Materials & Dr Who director Jamie Childs, exec produced Neil Gibson, producer George Arton.

Qatar National Day content film VFX supervisor and VFX production by Carl Grinter for film about flight, protection and security for director JT, producer Kwok Yau at Doha Film Institute promoting national unity and cultural identity.

Radox Channel 5 Weather sponsorships VFX Supervision and VFX production by Carl Grinter for photorealistic growing plants, trees and fruits for director Hamish Jenkinson at production agency Three Kings Agency / Prescription.

Keurig Coffee promotion film  showing the journey through the machine and coffee capsules all production, VFX supervision and VFX production with director Ed Salkeld for Mo Film and Keurig

Berocca Sport product launch sponsorships production, supervision, post production  for advertising agency JWT London with producer Scott Clark.

Bacardi "Beetle" Commercial CG and VFX production for director Henry Schofield at Partizan Lab  with CG artist Andy Hargreaves and VFX artist Jonny Hicks animating and compositing beetle respectively. 


Al Jazeera Sports "Stars" promotion VFX production for directors Adam Wells and Will Smith at production company GotGotNeed with VFX artist Leo Weston direct to channel.

Phillips "Squeaky Clean" Commercial   CG and VFX Production for advertising agency DDB London with CG artist Andy Hargreaves animating and composite by VFX artist Anthony Laranjo.

Lucozade "Evolution" Commercial VFX production for director Tony Kaye at Tony Kaye Films for advertising agency M&C Saatchi with VFX artists Adam Watson and Rufus Blackwell.