With experience came the need to feel complete as an artist so I choose to learn 2D Compositing as the next step on my career. Moved to London UK and took the Compositing for VFX Professional course at Escape Studios (18 weeks) where I proudly ended up doing the storyboard, production and directing my own visual effects academic showreel, which opened the doors of the Industry for me.
After Escape Studios I went to The Foundry, where I’ve worked with the Mari team, helping developing future versions, creating real world exercises to test Mari’s performance as a 2D and 3D painting tool. The first actual comp job came from ETC (Electric Theatre Collective), a new company based in London where I did a bit of everything, from keying to roto and some clean up for advertising and music videos.

The invitation from Double Negative came next where I stayed for 4 years, doing the whole journey from Roto to Paint to Comp, being a pro active artist, involved in different projects and responsibilities like supervision, training, recruitment, bidding, interviews and the development of in house tools as my passion is always to share the knowledge as the way to grow personally within a strong and balanced team. Been invited several times to lead or supervise a team, working closely with the production team, and following my old passion as a trainer, I ended up being involved in many activities like developing training videos, traveling to Singapore to train the team and ultimately overseeing the whole roto and prep department as a Site Wide Supervisor.

A huge highlight of my working life happened when I organized a Mini-Z Radiocontrol Car race, one of my hobbies, in the main atrium for a fund raising event!

In order to keep growing and challenging myself, I’ve decided to get out of my comfort zone and move to the Jedi Council, the legendary Industrial Light & Magic London, and fulfill an old dream of working in Star Wars (you might have noticed I’m quite a fan… just a tiny bit…) as an established Compositor. I’ve worked in some epic shows including Star Wars: The Force Awakens, 007: Specter, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Ant-Man and The Martian, alongside the most incredible team of Compositors, Leads and Supervisors that I’ve ever dreamed of. Been also involved in the redesign of the roto and paint pipeline and many weekly training events to help the young team to develop their skills and mentoring the runners in their initial steps.

The move to Vancouver and to join Scanline VFX was another personal choice, the search for an healthier life where me and my Family can enjoy not only to work, but to be close to Nature, do Sports and discover the joys of the Beautiful British Columbia. Life is driven by Crazy Dreams and Tough Reality, you just need to learn how to balance this two poles and you’ll find the sweet spot of working in the Visual Effects for the Film Industry.