Lighting & Compositing Showreel

My 3D Lighting showreel highlights my skills in Feature Animation and VFX, featuring collaborations with top studios like MPC and DNEG. It includes visuals from notable productions such as Netflix's Nimona, Sony's The Garfield Movie, and Disney's The Lion King. Each piece showcases my technical and artistic abilities, enhancing storytelling through captivating lighting.

RECENT WORK

  • That Christmas (2024 Netflix)

    That Christmas (2024 Netflix)

    That Christmas is an upcoming computer-animated Christmas fantasy comedy film produced by Locksmith Animation, animated by DNEG Animation and distributed by Netflix. It is directed by Simon Otto and based on a series of children's books by Richard Curtis.

  • Garfield Animated film

    Garfield (2024 Sony Pictures)

    I recently completed working on Garfield - an animated feature film based on the popular comic strip about a sarcastic, lasagna-loving cat.

  • Nimona Poster

    Nimona (2023 Netflix)

    I am very proud to have worked on Nimona which is out on Netflix and nominated for an Academy Award! Nimona is based on the graphic novel by the same name written by ND Stevenson

  • The Twits Movie poster

    The Twits (2025 Netflix)

    I worked on The Twits feature animated film at Jellyfish Pictures over 10 months. I was responsible for sequence Lighting & Compositing. We fully utilised a USD workflow with Houdini/Solaris and Karma renderer. Comp was done in Nuke.

  • The Lion King movie poster with a lion and cub against a sunset.

    The Lion King (2019 Disney)

    I worked on the Academy Award nominated Disney's The Lion King for almost a year from 2018. I joined the team at MPC Film London as a Lighting TD. It was a great honour and a dream-come-true moment for me to work on the reimagining of this iconic film.

  • Mr Spam Gets A New Hat Poster image

    Mr Spam Gets A New Hat

    Mr Spam Gets a New Hat is project that tested new technology at Dneg. We used Unreal Engine to craft this film and achieve visual fidelity to has outpaced anything done in a game engine at this calibre.

  • Rons Gone Wrong Poster Image

    Rons Gone Wrong (2021 Disney)

    This is DNEG Animation's first feature animated film and it was a pleasure to be part of this special journey. I was a lighting artist on this show for around 7 months.

  • Cursed Poster Image

    Cursed (2022 Netflix)

    I worked on Cursed at DnegTV for half a year as a Lighting TD dealing with integrating CG elements seamlessly with what was shot on set, including city extensions, props and creatures.

  • Neon text reading 'The New Pope' on a black background.

    The New Pope (2020 HBO)

    I wrapped on The New Pope for HBO. The challenge here was creating the vast environment of The Vatican and the thousands of CG crowd agents. Something new I started to do was Layout which I found to come quite natural with Lighting and now I am doing a lot more of.

  • The Dark Crystal with Netflix, Jim Henson Company logos

    Jim Henson's The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (Netflix 2019)

    I worked on the Netflix TV remake of Jim Henson's cult classic - The Dark Chrystal. I started my time with the talented team at Dneg in London on this project as a Lighting TD.

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 Resumé / CV

  • February - March 2025

    Lighting Scenes for the studio utilising Houdini with USD/Solaris

  • December 2023 - September 2024

    Working as a Key Lighting & Comp artist I am responsible for creating the sequence lighting across various parts of the show.

    Houdini Solaris • Nuke

    Current project: The Twits by Roald Dahl (Netflix 2025)

  • DNEG Animation

    February 2020 - November 2023
    Working on the cutting edge of Animation.

    Expert with the following software

    Katana x Renderman • Nuke • Maya • Linux • Unreal Engine • Photoshop

    Recently completed projects: Ron's Gone Wrong (2021 20th Century Studios), Mr Spam Gets a New Hat (2022 dir Bill Joyce), Nimona (2023 Netflix)

    Lighting Artist - Dneg TV

    Feb 2019 - Feb 2020 (1 year) Lighting and Layout

    Clarisse • Nuke • Maya • Linux

    Completed projects: The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (Netflix) The New Pope (HBO) Cursed (Netflix)

  • Jan 2017 - Present
    ACM SIGGRAPH London is a non-profit organisation. We are aim to inform, promote and connect the computer graphics community in London. We organise events once or twice a month and host the Bring Your Own Animation one a month. For more info about us visit https://london.siggraph.org/

  • Apr 2018 - Feb 2019 (11 months)

    I worked as a Lighting Artist at MPC Film London, working on the very exciting The Lion King film. The challenge was to create natural looking lighting with artistic control. I learned a lot and worked with an amazing team of talented and experienced artists!

    Katana • Renderman • Nuke

  • Jun 2017 - Mar 2018 (10 months)

    At Blue-Zoo I was working on a childrens' TV show for the BBC called Go Jetters 2. The show had a quick turnaround per episode and featured a different location and adventure for the characters. It was always interesting to be working on new environments and the challenges that come with it. My favourite character - the sparkling unicorn - Ubercorn!

    Maya • Redshift • Nuke

  • University of Hertfordshire

    Bachelor’s of Arts Degree, 3D Animation and Modelling

    2014 - 2017

    The 3D Animation degree at Herts was very intensive and in depth and helped me develop my skills, interest and knowledge about animation, film, storytelling and all the technical skills associated with the medium. I learned so much at UH and developed a new passion during my studies - photography. While honing my biggest interest in animation - lighting, I discovered photography. We were fortunate enough to have easy access to top-notch equipment and support and I used every opportunity to take advantage of these services. Now photography is a big part of my creative passion and complements my job as a lighting and compositing artist.

    Maya • Arnold • Nuke • Mari

  • Lighting • Visual Effects • Real-time Rendering • Photography • Graphic Design • 3D • Graphics • Video Editing • Compositing • Film

Unreal Pride - Short Dance Video made in Unreal Engine

I've been learning to use all the new features with the newly released Unreal Engine 5 and through my exploration I ended up creating this short dance music video. I decided to make it Pride themed as it goes well with the time of the year but also because I believe LGBTQ rights across the world have been challenged like never before and we as creators and entertainers should be using our skills and talent to help create a better, more accepting and inclusive world. I fully utilised the new MetaHumans by Epic Games for my characters and used the CitySample project from the Matrix they released as the backdrop for the dance by augmenting it to include Pride banners and messaging.

Music rights owned by their respective owners - ODESZA - The Last Goodbye.