Steve
Wright is a senior visual effects artist and trainer with over 20
years of production experience creating digital effects for over
60 feature films, including three years working with the Digital
Intermediate process. As a senior digital compositing artist and
2D Technical Director he has an unusual combination of both artistic
and technical understanding of Digital Compositing and Digital Intermediate.
His extensive film credits include "Ray", "Ali",
"Traffic", "Air Force One", "Batman
& Robin", and many, many others. He is also a public speaker,
published author, writer, and a widely recognized expert in the
digital effects industry. His independent services include:
As a master
trainer Steve has special expertise in the complexities of
compositing with log film
images and has conducted training for major visual effects
facilities both domestically and around the world on the art
and science of Digital Compositing. He has traveled to Canada,
Macedonia and India several times to conduct training classes,
as well as to Rochester, NY to train the Kodak engineering
department how to transition from Cineon to the Shake compositing
program and has also conducted numerous Master's Compositing
classes for Pixel Corps in San Francisco. For more details
click here to go to Steve's Training
page.
Steve's excellent training classes have garnered high praise
like this:
"It
was a pleasure to have Steve spend time with our
Research and Development Community! His ability to
design and deliver a customized program is a testament
to his experience in solving visual effects problems
with artistry and science."
- Mark Henry,
Director Entertainment Standards, Eastman Kodak Company
As the 2D Technical Director and a Senior Compositor
at Kodak's Cinesite, Steve has created digital effects
shots for a long list of top Hollywood films. His earlier
production experience includes eight years experience as
an in-house digital effects producer and supervisor for CGI
studios. He is highly experienced with client interface,
storyboard breakdown, production bid preparation, and project
management and has extensive technical and artistic experience
with digital effects, film restoration, image processing,
3D computer animation, and even digital ink and paint for
cel animation. His production experience includes three years
as a 3D animator and almost 17 years of compositing and digital
effects. His production credits include over 60 feature films
and over 70 broadcast television commercials plus numerous
special venue projects. His many feature film credits are
listed on IMDb or
click here to see a summary of all of his work on his Credits
page.
Steve is an engaging writer and has published "Digital
Compositing for Film and Video", a very popular
book on digital compositing now in its second edition and
fourth printing. He is currently working on his second
book, an introduction to digital compositing, and has also
published many articles on the Digital Intermediate process
for both on-line and hardcopy magazines. If you would like
to preview some of these articles click here to go to Steve's Articles
page.
His early digital effects career actually started in the
80's when he worked at Atari designing
and programming video games. From video games he joined Robert
Abel & Associates, an award winning founder of the
3D animation industry. After the closing of Robert Abel and
Associates Steve partnered with Steven Sidley to establish
Sidley Wright & Associates, a computer animation studio
in Hollywood for seven years. It was there that Steve purchased
three Pixar P2 compositing computer systems and mastered
the art and science of digital compositing. From there he
joined Kodak's Cinesite,
a world leader first in feature film compositing then in
Digital Intermediate. Joining Cinesite as a Senior Compositor,
his command of the technology won him a promotion to 2D Technical
Director. Click here to see Steve's Resume
page.
UPCOMING EVENTS CALENDAR
2010
Now
Available – 3rd
edition of "Digital
Compositing for Film and Video" available
in stores and at Amazon.com today!
New material on 3D compositing,
stereo compositing & multi-pass CGI compositing plus
a BONUS 3D Primer!Order
your copy today! September
2010
-Nuke Particular tutorial for Red Giant coming
soon! September
19th - 25th
-Steve conducts a one week Intro
to Nuke Compositing Workshop at the Maine Media Workshops in Rockport,
Maine September
26th - October 2nd-Steve conducts a one week Advanced Nuke
Compositing Workshop at the Maine Media Workshops
in Rockport, Maine October
11th - December 3rd-Start of next 8
week online Nuke Workshop hosted by the CGSociety. Registration opens on
September 13th!
2009 Engagements February
16th – April 12th - Steve's
8 week online VFX class "Compositing
with Shake" hosted by the CGSociety. February
16th – virtual guest instructor for 2 hour
Shake Compositing class at Rochester Institute of Technology
(RIT). February
18th – virtual guest instructor for 4 hour
lab class on Shake Compositing at Rochester Institute of
Technology. February
23rd - 24th –speaking engagement at the School
of Communication Arts in Raliegh, North Carolina
on the topic of "Compositing Visual Effects." April
27th - 29th– Steve conducts VFX compositing
training at Ubisoft in
Montreal, Canada. June
19th - 21st– Steve conducts a 3-day Nuke Workshop
Intensive in Los Angles with Weynand
Training September
28th - November 22nd – Steve conducts an 8
week online Nuke Workshop through CGSociety. October
25th - 28th –Steve is doing Nuke training at Troublemaker
Studios (Robert Rodriguez) in Austin, Texas November
21st –Steve delivers a remote greenscreen
lecture to Northwest Florida State College. December
8th –Steve is the keynote speaker at LA ACM Siggraph event
- 3D Compositing:
The Industry's New Workflow Paradigm.
Steve
Wright is a senior visual effects artist and trainer with over 20
years of production experience creating digital effects for over
60 feature films, including three years working with the Digital
Intermediate process. As a senior digital compositing artist and
2D Technical Director he has an unusual combination of both artistic
and technical understanding of Digital Compositing and Digital Intermediate.
His extensive film credits include "Ray", "Ali",
"Traffic", "Air Force One", "Batman
& Robin", and many, many others. He is also a public speaker,
published author, writer, and a widely recognized expert in the
digital effects industry. His independent services include:
Master
Compositing Trainer
