About Steve
Steve
Wright is a senior visual effects artist with over 20 years of production
experience creating digital effects for over 60 feature films and 70
television commercials. His extensive film credits include "Ray", "Ali", "Traffic", "Air
Force One", "Batman & Robin", and many, many more,
all listed on IMDb.
As a senior digital compositing artist and 2D technical director he
has an unusual combination of both artistic and technical understanding
of digital compositing. He is also a public speaker, published author,
writer, and a widely recognized expert in the digital effects industry.
Steve now devotes his time to teaching and training VFX compositing.
As a master trainer, Steve conducts live classes, online workshops,
video tutorials, and has traveled to VFX
facilities around the world to
conduct digital compositing training for their entire staff.
Steve’s digital
effects career actually started in the 80’s at Atari where
he designed and programmed video games. From the video game
industry he then joined Robert
Abel & Associates,
the award winning leader of the 3D animation industry producing
leading edge cgi commercials for television. From Robert
Abel & Associates,
Steve and a partner opened Sidley Wright and Associates,
a VFX studio in Hollywood. It was at Sidley Wright that Steve
purchased the Pixar P2 compositing computer system, mastered
the art of digital compositing, and produced high-end VFX
compositing first for commercials, then for feature films.
He even developed a cel animation digital ink and paint system
that was used for a dozen television commercials plus the
special effects shots for five animated feature films. From
this rich background of digital compositing for commercials,
feature films, and even animated films, Steve was invited
to join Cinesite, Kodak’s premier digital
effects facility, as a senior compositor. His command of
the art and science of digital compositing quickly won him
a promotion to 2D Technical Director where he later became
the digital imaging go-to guy for Cinesite’s
ground-breaking Digital Intermediate operation.
For
the last few years Steve has focused on teaching and training
VFX compositing. He has published two very successful books,
the introductory “Compositing
Visual Effects” and
the more advanced “Digital
Compositing for Film and Video.” He
has traveled to VFX facilities around the world
to teach digital compositing in India, Macedonia,
the Czech Republic, Canada, and New York. He has
published Shake video tutorials on Lynda.com, conducted
several masters compositing classes for PixelCorps
in San Francisco, conducted online compositing
workshops for CGSocety, and was even hired by Kodak
in NY to teach their engineering department how
to transition from the Cineon compositing program
to Shake. Steve now folds this wealth of production
experience and training expertise into his own
training programs, workshops, and videos for the
rising stars of VFX compositing!
About Diane
Diane is a 20 year veteran of video production and post production
having worked in many capacities such as online assistant editor, Main
and ISO operator, videotape playback, and post production supervisor,
as well as having been a producer for digital visual effects
and digital ink and paint. She is now an accomplished Apple Certified
Trainer for Final Cut Pro editing software having served clients such
as KTLA, CNN, the Associated Press, KGO-TV, and others in addition
to teaching video operations for all of the major networks. Extremely
popular with her students, Diane is admired for her clarity of presentation
and patient training methods.
Diane’s superb understanding of applications software and her
clarity of presentation also make her an excellent tech writer with
experience writing such as Quantel’s Q-Edit Pro, iLife and iWork
Quick Start Guides for Apple’s High School Educator’s program,
the Assimilate RealTime 2k playback system (Scratch), as well as Grass
Valley’s NewsEdit system. She has also supported Diana Weynand’s
book development for her video books and several of Apple’s Final
Cut Pro books. She
is methodical, accurate, and extremely dependable.
Diane is a proud member of:
LA ACM-SIGGRAPH
Visual Effects Society
Digital Cinema Society
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