Andrew Zeller Email & Phone Number

Vancouver, Bc, Ca

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Doing what I love: helping people realize their compositing, visual effects, and career goals as a mentor, coach, and teacher. Our 6 month Compositing course can be taken entirely online! My next class starts in 2025.

Vancouver

We design, develop, and deliver the best education possible to align with a person's unique vision of what they want to learn. We also produce educational resources for individuals and companies, collaborating with top artists, filmmakers, talent, and educators.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Continued to do the work I did in my previous role, for both DNEG and ReDefine: research, create, support, and deliver training programs in collaboration with the Global DNEG teams.Training Highlights:Launched Global Training Newsletter, AI Fundamentals Course, Keying Workflows Course, Interactive Time Management Course, KeenTools Presentations with Practice Materials, Compositing Knowledge Shares, Training Sessions for Training Team Members

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

ReDefine is a global VFX and animation boutique, providing high-quality, tailored creative production services to studios, filmmakers, and streaming companies. As part of the DNEG family of companies, ReDefine leverages the benefits of access to DNEG’s market-leading technology infrastructure while bringing an agile and bespoke service to each market.In my role, I...- Ran live training for ReDefine and DNEG artists in North America and Europe. - Helped lead Greenlight and… Show more ReDefine is a global VFX and animation boutique, providing high-quality, tailored creative production services to studios, filmmakers, and streaming companies. As part of the DNEG family of companies, ReDefine leverages the benefits of access to DNEG’s market-leading technology infrastructure while bringing an agile and bespoke service to each market.In my role, I...- Ran live training for ReDefine and DNEG artists in North America and Europe. - Helped lead Greenlight and Internship programs.- Planned, designed, and created internal training videos and courses.- Spoke at SIGGRAPH 2022 to introduce the unique training initiatives at ReDefine and how we exchange knowledge with DNEG. - Developed and sourced internal training documentation, images, and video based on requests from every department. - Worked together with the global DNEG training team to provide supportTraining Highlights: Compositing Core Fundamentals, Compositing Greenlight, Time Management Presentation, Intro to Linux, xSTUDIO Training Videos and Live Presentations, Grading documentation for Colourists, Q&A with BlackMagicDesign Show less

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi (2022)Lost Ollie (2022)CG integration with live action, deep compositing, working with elements from matte painting, generalist, lighting, and FX departments.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Peacemaker - Season 1: Episode 2: Best Friends, For Never (2022)Raised by Wolves - Season 2: Episode 2: Seven (2022)Keying and compositing elements, as well as some paintout work.

Vancouver, Canada Area

Taught students how to do basic to advanced compositing, paint, roto, tracking, keying, interview, & self-marketing skills; troubleshooting technical problems with their shots, resumes, & cover letters; assisted with curriculum design. Worked with the Lead Compositing Instructor, Ganz Ramalingam. Instructed 10 classes of Compositors (85 students) in total.Software Taught: NukeX, MochaPro, SilhouetteFX, Neat VideoAndrew’s students have gone on to work as Compositors, Roto… Show more Taught students how to do basic to advanced compositing, paint, roto, tracking, keying, interview, & self-marketing skills; troubleshooting technical problems with their shots, resumes, & cover letters; assisted with curriculum design. Worked with the Lead Compositing Instructor, Ganz Ramalingam. Instructed 10 classes of Compositors (85 students) in total.Software Taught: NukeX, MochaPro, SilhouetteFX, Neat VideoAndrew’s students have gone on to work as Compositors, Roto Artists, RotoPaint Artists, and BG Prep Artists at multiple VFX studios across North America, South America, Europe, and Asia including:Animal Logic, Artifex, Atomic Fiction, Bad Clay Studio, Barnstorm VFX, BRON Animation, CoSA, Crafty Apes, CVD, DNEG, Digital Domain, Distillery VFX, Framestore, Fuse FX, Ghost VFX, Goodbye Kansas Studios, Hydraulx, ILM, Image Engine, Ingenuity Studios, Lightfarm Studios, Luma Pictures, MARZ, Method Studios, Milk VFX, Mill Film, MPC, Mr. Wolf, Mr. X, Od Studios, Outpost, Phosphene FX, Pixomondo, Rodeo FX, Scanline, Side Street Post, Solstice Studios, Sony Pictures Imageworks, SSVFX, Stargate Studios, The Embassy, Umedia, Vitality, Yannix, Zoic Studios, and more! Show less

Vancouver, Canada Area

King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017)Baywatch (2017)xXx: Return of Xander Cage (2017) Aliens: Zone of Silence (2017)Live by Night (2016)Assassin's Creed (2016)Spectral (2016)Hell or High Water (2016)"The Family" (2016) - 9 episodes: 102 - 108, 110 - 111Pee-wee's Big Holiday (2016)Painting, rotoscoping, cleanup, BG prep, digital makeup, plus other 2D and 3D compositing tasks.

Vancouver, Canada Area

Fantastic Four (2015)Hardcore Henry (2015)Created mattes, painted out tracking markers, and addressed client notes for my shots during a 2 month practicum. Learned Autodesk’s Flame software package on the job.

Vancouver, Canada Area

Prepared students for the Cambridge BEC (Business English Certificate) exam. All 30 of my students who took the official exam passed and received a certificate. Created and implemented original lesson material for additional classes in intermediate grammar and advanced conversation.

Seodaemun-Gu, Seoul, Korea

Wrote, directed, and edited 17 commercials for a Korean design company to advertise the iconic rabbit-shaped phone case. Attended design exhibitions in South Korea and the UK for marketing and sales; acquired distribution for products throughout Europe.

Seongbuk-Gu, Seoul, Korea

Led English classes for over 300 students at Yongmoon High School. Designed educational materials: including 2 workbooks (40 pages each) and 12 PowerPoint presentations. Also managed a 3-week intensive filmmaking course, a weekly English conversation club, and a 2-week English seminar to improve students’ college entrance essays.

Occidental, California

Wrote, directed, and edited 3 feature length films and 10 short films. Shot and edited: 4 weddings, plus 3 corporate videos at factories in China for Fetco Home Decor's designers. Met and surpassed expectations of clients and viewers.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), East Asian Languages, Literatures, And Linguistics

Activities and Societies: Perspectives Magazine: Treasurer: 2011-2010, Assistant English Editor: 2009-2010, Journalist: 2008-2009.

Diploma In Advanced Visual Effects Compositing

"A 12 month intensive Compositing program covering skill sets such as camera tracking, basic 3D asset generation, photo-realistic 2D / 3D.

Certificate With Practicum (192 Hours Of Instruction And Practice), Teaching English As A Second Or Foreign Language

The TESL Certificate with Practicum is a joint program by the University of British Columbia (Canada) and Ritsumeikan University (Japan).