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Rick Smith
Senior Compositor &
Lead Compositor
She Hulk:  Attorney at Law / 2022 / Disney Plus
She Hulk:  Attorney at Law / 2022 / Disney Plus

She Hulk: Attorney at Law / 2022 / Disney Plus

• Integrated CG Hulk and environment (deep) across multiple shots.

• Projected matte paintings (mountain/sky) onto geo for background.

• Added additional dust and atmosphere using stock elements and Nuke particles.

She-Hulk:  Attorney at Law / 2022 / Disney Plus

She-Hulk: Attorney at Law / 2022 / Disney Plus

She-Hulk: Attorney at Law / 2022 / Disney Plus

She-Hulk: Attorney at Law / 2022 / Disney Plus

She-Hulk:  Attorney at Law / 2022 / Disney Plus

She-Hulk: Attorney at Law / 2022 / Disney Plus

She-Hulk:  Attorney at Law  / 2022 / Disney Plus

She-Hulk: Attorney at Law / 2022 / Disney Plus

She-Hulk:  Attorney at Law  / 2022 / Disney Plus

She-Hulk: Attorney at Law / 2022 / Disney Plus

• Integrated CG Hulks and environment (deep) across multiple shots.

• Added additional dust and atmosphere using stock elements and Nuke particles.

She-Hulk:  Attorney at Law / 2022 / Disney Plus

She-Hulk: Attorney at Law / 2022 / Disney Plus

• Integrated CG Hulks and wall damage (deep) over live-action plate.

• Nuke projections for background additions of the medical cabinet.

• Monitor burn ins.

• Paint out of actors handled by another artist.

She-Hulk:  Attorney at Law / 2022 / Disney Plus

She-Hulk: Attorney at Law / 2022 / Disney Plus

• Integrated CG Hulks (deep) over live-action plates across multiple shots.

• Monitor burn ins.

• The real binder and paper from the live action plate was used in the final composite

• Paint out of actors handled by another artist.

She-Hulk:  Attorney at Law / 2022 / Disney Plus

She-Hulk: Attorney at Law / 2022 / Disney Plus

She-Hulk:  Attorney at Law / 2022 / Disney Plus

She-Hulk: Attorney at Law / 2022 / Disney Plus

Peacemaker / 2022 / HBO

Peacemaker / 2022 / HBO

• Integrated CG eagle, shadow, and tree stump (deep) over a live-action plate.

The Last of Us  / 2023 / HBO

The Last of Us / 2023 / HBO

• Integrated CG characters, environment, fire, smoke, ground dust (deep) over a Nuke projection of a destroyed building over multiple shots.

• Added additional fire and atmosphere using stock elements.

The Last of Us  / 2023 / HBO

The Last of Us / 2023 / HBO

The Last of Us  / 2023 / HBO

The Last of Us / 2023 / HBO

• Integrated CG renders of creatures, humans, fire, smoke (deep) over a live-action plate of a burning building and several actors.

• Removed scaffolding and handled shot clean up.

• Additional atmosphere and fire using the stock elements library.

Robocop / 2014 / Feature film

Robocop / 2014 / Feature film

• CG renders of: The robot hands and guitar.

• Nuke camera projections to rebuild the ground, knee and stomach.

Halo / 2022 / Paramount Plus series

Halo / 2022 / Paramount Plus series

• CG renders of: The city and vehicles.

• A matte painting of the background landscape was projected onto geometry.

House of the Dragon (Season 2)  / 2024 / HBO series

House of the Dragon (Season 2) / 2024 / HBO series

• CG set extension of the ship (everything above the hull).

• Sky replacement.

• Additional smoke and atmosphere added from the stock elements library.

• Original plate was time warped so that the first half of the shot was sped up 200%. Due to this, the dock workers needed to be painted out and then the original non-retimed versions of the dock workers needed to be reprojected back in their place.

Star Trek Discovery / 2019 / Paramount Plus series

Star Trek Discovery / 2019 / Paramount Plus series

  • Full CG shot.

Star Trek Discovery / 2017 / Paramount Plus series

Star Trek Discovery / 2017 / Paramount Plus series

Matte painting of a space station was projected onto geometry.

CG renders of the spaceships that dock at the space station.

Starfield projected onto geometry.

Star Trek Discovery / 2019 / Paramount Plus  series

Star Trek Discovery / 2019 / Paramount Plus series

• CG renders of: The landscape, asteroids, people, and floating ash particulates.

• Additional atmosphere by projecting smoke elements onto cards in Nuke.

Star Trek Discovery / 2019 / Paramount Plus series

Star Trek Discovery / 2019 / Paramount Plus series

• Integrated CG vehicles and set with live-action plate.

• Painted out an actor who the client wanted removed.

• Added atmosphere by placing smoke elements onto cards.

• Responsible for all the rotoscoping.

Star Trek Discovery / 2019 / Paramount Plus series

Star Trek Discovery / 2019 / Paramount Plus series

• CG renders of: The spaceship, buildings and landscape.

• Dust and debris elements created by Nuke particle system.

Star Trek Discovery / 2019 / Paramount Plus series

Star Trek Discovery / 2019 / Paramount Plus series

  • Full CG shot.

Borderlands / 2024 / Feature film

Borderlands / 2024 / Feature film

• Deep composited vehicle, creature, smoke and atmosphere.

• Integrated in additional 2d atmosphere elements from the stock element library.

Final Destination: Bloodlines / 2025 / Feature film

Final Destination: Bloodlines / 2025 / Feature film

• The live-action plate was shot on a set that had no practical fire or smoke.

• CG fire and dense smoke (deep) integrated with this plate.

• Nuke particles of embers, ash, and atmospheric elements.

• Rotoscope of actors were provided by other artists - all remaining comp work is mine.

Final Destination: Bloodlines / 2025 / Feature film

Final Destination: Bloodlines / 2025 / Feature film

• This full shot is much longer than what’s shown here. It was started very late in the project, so I split the work across four other compositors to make the deadline. The shorter version in the demo reel, only the first two seconds were composited by another artist - the rest is my work.

• Shot on a partial blue screen set. Both actors were fully keyed/extracted, and all set pieces were replaced with CG.

• Integrated CG fire and smoke (deep), and created additional embers and ash elements with Nuke particles.

Midway / 2019 / Feature film

Midway / 2019 / Feature film

CG renders of: The planes and anti-aircraft flak.

Sky projected onto geometry.

Midway / 2019 / Feature Film

Midway / 2019 / Feature Film

• Integrated CG ships, planes, water, and ant-aircraft flak (deep) across multiple shots.

• Projected skies and atmospheric elements onto geo in Nuke.

Midway / 2019 / Feature film

Midway / 2019 / Feature film

Midway / 2019 / Feature film

Midway / 2019 / Feature film

Midway / 2019 / Feature film

Midway / 2019 / Feature film

Midway / 2019 / Feature film

Midway / 2019 / Feature film

The Ambush / 2021 / Feature film

The Ambush / 2021 / Feature film

• CG renders of: The helicopter, missiles, missile smoke trails, and explosion debris (deep). Integrated over the live-action plate.

Warcraft / 2016 / Feature film

Warcraft / 2016 / Feature film

• Integrated CG orcs, knights, horses and environment (deep) into live-action plates.

• Handled keying/rotoscope of the actors

• Added dust/debris elements in Nuke.

• The first shot was finaled by another compositor.

Knight and Day / 2010 /  Feature film

Knight and Day / 2010 / Feature film

• Integrated a CG rolling SUV with the live-action plate.

• Rotoscoped the foreground vehicle and stuntman.

• Added additional smoke, debris and sparks.

Ben Hur / 2016 / Feature film

Ben Hur / 2016 / Feature film

• CG renders of: The hippodrome, crowd and dust. Composited over the live action background plate.

• Sky replacement.

• Rotoscoped the horses.

Ben Hur / 2016 / Feature film

Ben Hur / 2016 / Feature film

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She Hulk:  Attorney at Law / 2022 / Disney Plus
She-Hulk:  Attorney at Law / 2022 / Disney Plus
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law / 2022 / Disney Plus
She-Hulk:  Attorney at Law / 2022 / Disney Plus
She-Hulk:  Attorney at Law  / 2022 / Disney Plus
She-Hulk:  Attorney at Law  / 2022 / Disney Plus
She-Hulk:  Attorney at Law / 2022 / Disney Plus
She-Hulk:  Attorney at Law / 2022 / Disney Plus
She-Hulk:  Attorney at Law / 2022 / Disney Plus
She-Hulk:  Attorney at Law / 2022 / Disney Plus
Peacemaker / 2022 / HBO
The Last of Us  / 2023 / HBO
The Last of Us  / 2023 / HBO
The Last of Us  / 2023 / HBO
Robocop / 2014 / Feature film
Halo / 2022 / Paramount Plus series
House of the Dragon (Season 2)  / 2024 / HBO series
Star Trek Discovery / 2019 / Paramount Plus series
Star Trek Discovery / 2017 / Paramount Plus series
Star Trek Discovery / 2019 / Paramount Plus  series
Star Trek Discovery / 2019 / Paramount Plus series
Star Trek Discovery / 2019 / Paramount Plus series
Star Trek Discovery / 2019 / Paramount Plus series
Borderlands / 2024 / Feature film
Final Destination: Bloodlines / 2025 / Feature film
Final Destination: Bloodlines / 2025 / Feature film
Midway / 2019 / Feature film
Midway / 2019 / Feature Film
Midway / 2019 / Feature film
Midway / 2019 / Feature film
Midway / 2019 / Feature film
Midway / 2019 / Feature film
The Ambush / 2021 / Feature film
Warcraft / 2016 / Feature film
Knight and Day / 2010 /  Feature film
Ben Hur / 2016 / Feature film
Ben Hur / 2016 / Feature film
 

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