NFTS Digital Effects graduates have worked on the UK’s recent box office hit films including the latest james Bond film Spectre, which has just taken a record-breaking £43 million in the UK in its first week, as well as The Martian (£33.7m) and Everest (£10.56m) and are prevalent in the VFX and post teams in the hotly anticipated Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens.
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The team on Spectre includes John Seru (Sequence Supervisor), Roni Rodrigues (Compositor), Adam Arnot (Compositor), Herbert Butler (Colourist), Carlos Ciudad (VFX Production Manager), Sarah Byers (Matchmove Artist), animation graduate Dean Koonjul (Compositor), Carlo Bagliolid (Lighting TD) who graduated earlier this year, and current student ‘Puff’ Pisanwalerd who worked as a Compositor on the title sequence. Read more about Carlo and Puff here.
Carlos Ciudad is also the Visual Effects Production Manager on The Martian (directed by Sir Ridley Scott and starring Matt Damon), along with Roto/Prep Artist Andrew Scattergood; Compositor Nicholas Zissimos; Dillan Nicholls (Lead Compositor); Victor Tomi (Compositor); Jorge Canada Escoriheula (Compositor); James Brennan-Craddock (Visual Effects Artist) and Samuel Walsh (Character TD and Animator).
There are 10 NFTS grad credits on the forthcoming Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens including Ben Lock who was the VFX Producer.
The NFTS’ two–year Masters course in Digital Effects is taught by internationally acclaimed tutors who also work professionally in the DFX industry. First year students learn the core skills of Colour, Compositing or CG, before specialising in one of these crafts in their second year. The skills they learn and the technology they use mean that they are ready to enter the industry as soon as they graduate. A staggering 95% of graduates from this course are employed in the film and television industry.
John Rowe, Head of NFTS Digital Effects MA course, said: “It is fantastic to see so many of our graduates working on these exciting and innovative productions across all of the crafts: Colour, Compositing and CG. The fact that there are so many graduates involved on the same projects in so many different departments - including some who only graduated this year or who are still current students - is testament both to their talent and the quality of the teaching they receive. Congratulations to all of them.”
Our next Digital EffectsMA course starts in January 2016. For your chance to join the NFTS - the No. 1 International Film School – make sure you get your applications in by November 19th, 2015.
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