PRODUCTION MANAGER
Virginie Marchand
CO-LEADS (LA/VAN)
Vin Nguyen
Simon Twine
Brian Rust
SUPERVISORS
Dave Hodgins
Hanzhi Tang
Michael Melchiorre
James Reid
VENDOR
Digital Domain
Compositing Supervisor (acting-as)
Compositing Lead
Blackwidow
2020
Work for Black Widow's "Red-Room crashing from the sky" sequence was split into two teams, with Los Angeles and Vancouver taking on shots for anything above ground level and Montréal taking care of anything close-to or on the ground. Overall VFX supervision was driven from the Los Angeles studio.
Digital Domain Montréal had just opened up as a new studio and Black Widow was one of the first projects— I was sent over from Vancouver to lead a team of 10 compositors with an offer of promotion to Compositing supervisor. I declined the title but accepted the responsibilities.
The Montréal work involved:
Maintaining consistent colour throughout the sequence for plates shot under various daylight conditions.
Enhancing the plates with fires and debris from the fallen Red-Room.
Embers, ash and smoke generated in Nuke.
A last minute re-imaging of the ending with re-shoots.
Asset builds that could be used to blend the bluescreen-set from the re-shoot with clean plates from the original on-location shoot.
Setting looks & creating setups, assigning and balancing work-loads, bids, representing artist's work in reviews, QC'ing and reviewing work, and picking up artists' work as the show wound down.














