Introduction

Francis Joseph V. Wong
Digital Rotoscope Artist

Rotoscoping Demo Reel:
http://vimeo.com/channels/franciswong1982

Objective:
To be part of a Prominent and Dynamic Post Production Firm where I can contribute my skills, professional experiences, and qualifications as a roto artist. My key contributions will be in the technical 2D matte creation, Articulated Rotoscoping, keying, assisted 2D tracking, and project management aspects.

Skills of Specializations:
Articulated Rotoscoping |2D Point Tracking | 2D Planar Tracking | Stabilizing Shots | Chroma Keying | Procedural Keying | Alpha Channeling | Garbage Masking | 2D Paint | Rig Removals | Matte Compositing.

Software Weapons Used:
Rotoscoping, Tracking, Paint, keying, Compositing Tools: Imagineers Mocha Pro 3.02, Silhouette SFX 5, Adobe After Effects CS6, Adobe Photoshop CS6, and Nuke x 6 | OS Platform: Windows 8 Pro x64 / OS X Mountain Lion

Qualifications:
• In depth knowledge of the VFX Pipeline in Post Production from shot plates, roto/paint, keying, matchmoving, matte painting, 3d modeling, animation, rendering, compositing, and hardware concerns.
• In depth understanding of standard video principles, formats, resolutions, frame rates, aspect ratios, bit depths, colour space, LUTS, multipass keying, articulated rotoscoping, stereoscopic and compositing.
• Proficient in Handling 2k.4k film.1080p HD.SD pal ntsc resolution pipelines such as proxies, comp management, disk caching set ups, and render settings for output.
• Proficient working knowledge on both layer and node based compositing tools.
• Sufficient background in broadcast formats, NLE, Motion Graphics, and Design.
• Keen eye for details, resourceful, team player, and on constant progress of learning new techniques as software technology evolves.
• Proficient in Oral and Written English. Computer Savvy and can learn easily
• Can easily get along with others and adapt to any working conditions
• Initiative, honest, accept comments, ask questions if dont understand, solve project problems, follow instructions and good working attitude.

Work Experience

Freelance Remote Work Foreign: (2009 - current)

FishnorFowl (London) May 10, 2013 - May 11, 2013
Position: Freelance Roto Artist
Job Role/Project Desciption: Rotoscoping HDTV spot for a Musical TV spot

United.Front.Design (California) April 03, 2013 - May 04, 2013
Position: Freelance Roto Artist
Job Role/Project Desciption: Rotoscoping HDTV spot for Futurama TV Series 2013

Play nicely.co.uk (England) February 12, 2013 - March 28, 2013
Position: Freelance Roto Artist
Job Role/Project Desciption: Rotoscoping Feature Film Trailer Pain & Gain 2013

United.Front.Design (California) January 13, 2013 - January 18, 2013
Position: Freelance Roto Artist
Job Role/Project Desciption: Rotoscoping HDTV spot for Futurama TV Series 2013

Rise VFX (Germany) November 27, 2012 - December 08, 2012
Position: Freelance Rotoscope Artist
Job Role/Project Desciption: Rotoscoping for Episodic Borgia's Season3 HDTV Series

BemoTV (California) November 23, 2012 - November 25, 2012
Position: Freelance Rotoscoping/ Tracking Artist
Job Role/Project Desciption: Rotoscoping HDTV spot ad

RV Films (CA) November 20, 2012 – November 22, 2012
Position: Freelance Rotoscoping/Tracking Artist
Job Role/Project Desciption: Rotoscoping HDTV ad spot

BemoTV (California) November 16, 2012 - November 21, 2012
Position: Freelance Rotoscoping/ Tracking Artist
Job Role/Project Desciption: Rotoscoping HDTV spot ad

BemoTV (California) September 21, 2012 - October 09, 2012
Position: Freelance Roto Screen Replacements / Tracking Artist
Job Role/Project Desciption: Rotoscoping HDTV spot ad

United.Front.Design (California) September 26, 2012 - October 01, 2012
Position: Freelance Roto Artist
Job Role/Project Desciption: Rotoscoping HDTV spot for Disney

BemoTV (California) September 05, 2012 - September 11, 2012
Position: Freelance Roto Screen Replacements / Tracking Artist
Job Role/Project Desciption: Rotoscoping HDTV spot ad

Rise VFX (Germany) August 17, 2012 - September 11, 2012
Position: Freelance Rotoscope Artist
Job Role/Project Desciption: Rotoscoping for Episodic Borgia's Season3 HDTV Series

Fishnorfowl (London UK) August 28, 2012 - September 03, 2012
Position: Freelance Roto Screen Replacements / Tracking Artist
Job Role/Project Desciption: Rotoscoping HDTV spot ad

United.Front.Design (California) August 15, 2012 - September 08, 2012
Position: Freelance Roto Artist
Job Role/Project Desciption: Rotoscoping HDTV spot for Disney

SMI VFX (Los Angeles) July 21, 2012 – August 10, 2012
Position: Freelance Roto-Key-Paint Artist
Job Role/Project Desciption: Roto-Keying-Painting for a feature film

Tallis VFX (NY) June 26, 2012 – June 28, 2012
Position: Freelance Roto-Key Artist
Job Role/Project Desciption: Roto-Keying HDTV ad spot

RV Films (CA) June 19, 2012 – June 24, 2012
Position: Freelance Roto-Key Artist
Job Role/Project Desciption: Roto-Keying HDTV ad spot

Jump Designs.co.uk (London) April 19, 2012 – April 28, 2012
Position: Freelance Roto-Paint Artist
Job Role/Project Desciption: Roto-Painting HDTV horses ad spot

United.Front.Design (California) April 08, 2012 - April 26, 2012
Position: Freelance Roto Screen Replacements / Tracking Artist
Job Role/Project Desciption: Rotoscoping TV spot for Apple ipad,iphone4s,macbook

United.Front.Design (California) March 17, 2012 - March 21, 2012
Position: Freelance Roto Artist
Job Role/Project Desciption: Rotoscoping TV spot for WGN America

Visual Wright (Chicago) February 20, 2012 - February 28, 2012
Position: Freelance Roto-keying Artist
Job Role/Project Desciption: Roto-keying 2k hdtv spot for sports athletes

Morph Architectural & Visual Effects (Paris, France) February 02, 2012 - February 17, 2012
Position: Freelance Lead Rotoscope Artist
Job Role/Project Desciption: Tracking, Rotoscoping, Paint Work, Matte Creation on 24 full motion walking people inside and outside the building shot. The project is an exterior and interior building shot with walking people replaced with a 3D tracked CG interior building while preserving the people inside the building shot.

United.Front.Design (California) February 01, 2012 - February 18, 2012
Position: Freelance Roto Artist
Job Role/Project Desciption: Rotoscoping TV spot for dIY network

Dewmayfilms (LA) January 22, 2012 - January 25, 2012
Position: Freelance Lead Rotoscope Artist
Job Role/Project Description: Rotoscoping and creating mattes for a commercial spot

SMI VFX (Los Angeles) .January 03, 2012 - February 15, 2012
Position: Freelance RotoPaint / Match move Artist
Job Role/Project Desciption: RotoPaint/Wire removals for "Freerunner 2011" feature film

Visual Wright (Chicago) November 17, 2011 – November 25, 2011
Position: Freelance Roto-keying Artist
Job Role/Project Desciption: Roto-keying 2k hdtv spot for sports car and people

Yesreklame dk (Denmark) November 15, 2011 – November 22, 2011
Position: Freelance Roto-Paint-Tracking/screen replacement Artist
Job Role/Project Desciption: Roto-Painting 4k 360 rotation screens.pc for hp/ intel

Jump Designs.co.uk (London) November 13, 2011 – November 15, 2011
Position: Freelance Roto-Paint Artist
Job Role/Project Desciption: Roto-Painting HDTV sports spot

Republic VFX (LA - Shanghai) September 29, 2011 – October 21, 2011
Position: Freelance Roto-Key Artist
Job Role/Project Desciption: RotoKeying Mcdonalds HDTV Spot.

X & Y Studios (Australia) September 20, 2011 – September 29, 2011
Position: Freelance Roto-Key Artist
Job Role/Project Desciption: RotoKeying Disney HDTV Spot.

The Third Company .co.uk (London) September 4, 2011 – September 14, 2011
Position: Freelance Roto Artist
Job Role/Project Desciption: Rotoscoping MTV Elton John Music Video

CBS Network (N.Y) August 06, 2011 – August 27, 2011
Position: Freelance Roto-Paint Artist
Job Role/Project Desciption: Roto-Painting HDTV spot for sports channel

Bemo TV (California) June 13, 2011 – July 13, 2011
Position: Freelance Roto-Paint Artist
Job Role/Project Desciption: Roto-Painting HDTV spot for Ellie Goulding

Jump Designs.co.uk (London) June 14, 2011 – June 23, 2011
Position: Freelance Roto-Paint Artist
Job Role/Project Desciption: Roto-Painting HDTV sports spot

United.Front.Design (California).May 13, 2011 – May 18 2011
Position: Freelance Roto Artist
Job Role/Project Desciption: Rotoscoping TV series Futurama 2011

Martin Brinkerhoff Assoc. Inc MBA (Los Angeles) April 04, 2011 – May 06, 2011
Position: Freelance Roto-Key Artist
Job Role/Project Desciption: RotoKeying Stereo Pirates of the Carribean on stranger tides Feature Film (uncredited)

Two Thousand and Strong (Venice, California) April 23, 2011 – April 28, 2011
Position: Freelance Roto-Key Artist
Job Role/Project Desciption: Rotoscoping HDTV Commercial

United.Front.Design.(California) April 23, 2011 – April 27 2011
Position: Freelance Roto Artist
Job Role/Project Desciption: Rotoscoping TV series Futurama 2011

SMI VFX (California) March 11, 2011 – April 28 2011
Position: Freelance Roto Artist
Job Role/Project Desciption: RotoPaint/Wire removals for "Freerunner 2011" feature film

Jack Designs (New York) March 02, 2011 – March 18, 2011
Position: Freelance Rotoscope Artist
Job Role/Project Desciption: Rotoscoping 2 basketball players for a 30 sec tv spot.

Play nicely .co .uk (London) February 16, 2011 – February 22 2011
Position: Freelance Roto Artist
Job Role/Project Desciption: Rotoscoping TV Spot

Clockwork VFX (Dubai UAE) February 06, 2011 – February 08, 2011
Position: Freelance Rotoscope Artist
Job Role/Project Desciption: Rotoscoping 2 shot plates for a TVC spot

David Virtual Keys (CA) January 24, 2011 – Present
Position: Freelance Roto-Key Artist
Job Role/Project Desciption: RotoKeying virtual people shots on volume basis.

Luxvfx (Canada) July 22, 2010 – January 19, 2011
Position: Freelance Rotoscope Artist
Job Role/Project Desciption: Rotoscoping, 2dTracking, 2d Paint, Plate Reconstruction of 2d FX shots for Eureka Season 4 episodes 6 -13.

United Front Design (CA) November 04, 2010 – November 17, 2010
Position: Freelance Rotoscope Artist
Job Role/Project Desciption: Procedural Chroma Keying with Rotoscopes for a Disney Channel spot TVC

ScreenCraft (Australia) October 05, 2010 – October 12, 2010
Position: Freelance Rotoscope Artist
Job Role/Project Desciption: Rotoscoping of a full body soccer player for a tvc spot

MalditoMaus (Argentina) May 06, 2010 – July 03, 2010
Position: Freelance Rotoscope Artist
Job Role/Project Desciption: Wire and Rig Removals. Rotoscoping for a TVC spot.

Playnicely.co.uk (UK) April 05, 2010 – April 12, 2010
Position: Freelance Rotoscope Artist
Job Role/Project Desciption: Rotoscoping 3 4k shots for a TVC spot.

Riverkey Creative (Kansas US) March 12, 2010 – March 22, 2010
Position: Freelance Rotoscope Artist
Job Role/Project Desciption: Rotoscoping 6 baseball players for a 30 sec tv spot. I created mattes or alpha channels and render out RGBA channels in image sequences for compositing.

Jack Designs (New York) January 24, 2010 – February 3, 2010
Position: Freelance Rotoscope Artist
Job Role/Project Desciption: Rotoscoping 6 basketball players for a 30 sec tv spot. I created mattes or alpha channels and render out RGBA channels in image sequences for compositing.

Dewmayfilms (LA) October 25, 2009 - December 23, 2009
Position: Freelance Lead Rotoscope Artist
Job Role/Project Description: Rotoscoping and creating mattes for a feature film project this march 2010. I rotoscope 74 shots of full body, half body, close up body, face shots, procedural keying, painting, luma keying on underwater shots, walking people on church, and hair detailed subjects.

Big Machine Designs (LA) October21, 2009 - October 24 2009
Position: Freelance Lead Compositor
Job Role/Project Description: Tracking of 2d basketball courts for replacement of logos. Rotoscoping of Cheerleaders that overlaps on tracking points. Prepared Composite templates for the project so the client can change the logos on the basketball board anytime in the comp.

Morph Architectural & Visual Effects (Paris, France) September 6,2009 - October 20,2009
Position: Freelance Lead Rotoscope Artist
Job Role/Project Desciption: Tracking, Rotoscoping, Paint Work, Matte Creation on 24 full motion walking people inside and outside the building shot. The project is an exterior and interior building shot with walking people replaced with a 3D tracked CG interior building while preserving the people inside the building shot.

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Full Time Work Local:

RotoShape VFX (Remote,Homebase) October 2008 - Present
Position: Fulltime Lead Roto-Keying-Tracking-Paint Artist
Job Role/Project Description: Owner/ Mocha AE Artist

Cebu Denmark Animation Studios (Cebu City, Philippines) August 2009 - Feb 2011
Position: Fulltime Compositor
Job Role/Project Description: Leads the roto team responsible for creating mattes on 2k.4k HD shots, 2D tracking, matte compositing, quality checking of the group mattes, assign shot plates on the 2d team, rendering of the alpha channel mattes back to the client, and project assets management.

MK Andersen Outsourcing Inc. (Cebu, Philippines ) May 2006 – August 2009
Position: Fulltime Lead Digital Rotoscope Artist / 2D Compositor
Job Role/Project Description: Leads the roto team responsible for creating mattes on 2k.4k HD shots, 2D tracking, matte compositing, quality checking of the group mattes, assign shot plates on the 2d team, rendering of the alpha channel mattes back to the client, and project assets management.

Cebu TV Channel 28 Mediaworks (Cebu City, Philippines) May 2005 – April 2006
Position: Fulltime Motion Graphics Artist
Job Role/Project Description: Offline editing, Create and prepare shots for color grading, compositing of visual elements, station ID's and final output rendering for broadcast in local tv network.

Academic Qualifications

Bachelor of Fine Arts Major in Advertising Arts | Attended, 2000 – 2005 (Graduated)
University of San Carlos – Technological Center Talamban, Cebu City 6000, Philippines

Constantly learning everyday for current techniques and technologies to improve my current skills.