About Steve Wright

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:

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.