VFX - Jesse Hildreth's Visual Effects Lighting and Compositing Demo Reel 2009

Winter 2009 version. Alvin and the Chipmunks 2, Night at the Museum 2, Speed Racer and various personal and student projects. This reel got me into Lucasfilm Animation. Now working on Clone Wars.

Category:

Film & Animation

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• Visual Effects
• Demo Reel
• Visual Effects Demo Reel
• Special Effects
• SCAD
• Lighting
• Lighter
• Lighting TD
• Jesse Hildreth
• jhildreth
• Jesse
• Hildreth
• Digital Domain
• Rhythm and Hues
• Speed Racer
• Night at the Museum 2
• FX
• VFX
• animation

[papirus00000]

from where is 2:10 scene?

[jhildreth11]

@papirus00000 it was a group project in college called Flight Lessons by Neil Helm. I setup the lighting and VFX suped the rest of the shots not seen here with several other lighters.

[candyman3]

Love the first plane shot, but u should have composed something more into it than just physical sun and sky ^^

[jhildreth11]

@candyman3 it was a modeling and texturing project. (My first one really) This was only to show off the model. The shot and animation itself with the sun, propellers and turrets moving was all a bonus to flash it up. Its all I had time to do.

[007chandradeep]

do i need to be good at drawing for the visual effects course? 

[jhildreth11]

@007chandradeep it helps you as an artist overall, but you dont really need it to do VFX. I can draw when I need to, but generally dont really get into it much. Certainly though, those who can draw really well will always have a great advantage over others.

[jhildreth11]

@pilot7180 Get an actual animation student to do the work for you, and then you have better material to work with. 4. Think outside of the box. most teachers show hall of fame from previous classes. Look and see what those students did, and then DONT do that. Do something new. I went all the way up to Charleston SC many times to get footage on a World War 2 Aircraft Carrier. Most other people modeled cars or flowers. 5. Dont ever model or light a damn car. ever

[jhildreth11]

@pilot7180 I had to dumb down many projects in the last week in order to just have SOMETHING to turn in. Dont get caught in that trap. 3. Group projects. I learned more and gained more demo reel material in one single group project than every class I had at scad. I wish I had done more early. Find some animation students (who dont know shit about lighting or compositing) and light and comp their projects. 90% of VFX projects contain un-animated and boring projects.

[mumphis18]

can i know the name of the music PLZ?

[koza05koza]

sick show-reel, sick music :D

[ndjarnag]

I wish you would add some dialog discussing your work. Great Vid!

[nuclearguineapig]

@Rizorn look in the description

[Rizorn]

name of the song used please?:)