My Visual Effects Work

2012 Los Angeles Limo / Before & After from marc dominic rienzo on Vimeo.

be sure to see the vfx test done for this work:
http://www.vimeo.com/8243098

VISUAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects Producer: Josh R. Jaggars
Visual Effects Supervisors: Volker Engel, Marc Weigert
Digital Production Manager: Danielle Costa
VFX Producer: Julia Frey

CG Effects Supervisor: Ari Sachter-Zeltzer
Compositing Supervisor: Marc Dominic Rienzo
CG Supervisor: Michael Grobe

Project Managers: Katharina Koepke, Magdalena Wolf
Visual Effects Coordinators: Katie Spinelli, Lisa Marra
Visual Effects Accountant: John D. Vaughan
Playback Operator: Chris F. Moore
Post-Visualization Artist: Tom Bruno Jr
Production Assistant: Kohl Harrington
Data Wranglers: Gord Dunick, Stephen Chan
Virtual Camera Operator: Alastair Macleod

Lighting and Modeling Lead: André Cantarel
Lighting Lead: Greg Tsadilas
Lead Compositor: Niki Bern
Matte Painting Supervisor: Ivo Horvat
Modeling Lead: Justin Mijal
Texture Leads: Greg Strasz, Federico Rivia

Senior CG Effects Artists: Sam Khorshid: Joe Scarr: Christian Zurcher, Attila Zalanyi

CG Effects Artists: Derek Blume, Rudy Cortes, Jason Crosby, Rif Dagher, Nick Damico, Brian DeMetz, Wayne England, Ian Farnsworth, David Glicksman, Joe Gunn, Ahmed Hassan, Alessandro Nardini, Goran Pavles, Will Shepherd, Gavyn Thompson, Mike Walls

Senior Lighting TDs: Erick Schiele, Joe Mangione

Lighting TDs: Curtis Cardwell, Robert Freitag, Anthony Juno Han, Justin Lloyd, Nathan Millsap, Alex Scollay, Marion Spates, Rodrigo Teixeira

Compositors: Dan Akers, Brian Begun, Krista Benson, Ante Dekovic, Peter Demarest, Christina Drahos, Eddie Gutierrez, Jason Halverson, Nicholas Kim, Anthony Kramer, Joshua LaCross, Mark M. Larranaga, Jessica Laszlo, Gresham Lochner, Charles Meredith, Salima Needham, Robert Nederhorst, Christian Schermerhorn, Nabil Schiantarelli, Clancy Silver, Maciek Sokalski, Stefano Trivelli, Stacey Weigert, Joseph Zaki

Modelers: Matan Abel, Moriba Duncan, Apollo S. J. Kim, Andrew Swihart, Pouya Zadrafiei

Senior Matte Painters: Dylan Cole, Michele Moen, Rick Rische
Matte Painters: Dark Hoffman, Alex Nice
Texture Artists: Chris Duncan, Paul Fedor, Brian F. Ripley

Animators: Robert Diaz, John Kubasco, Conrad Murrey
Matchmovers: Francis L. Camacho, Gary Laurie

Massive TD: Philipp Hartmann
Roto and Paint Lead: Edgar Diaz
Nuke TD: Nathan Dunsworth
Pipeline TD: Paul Hormis

Lead Pipeline Developer: Patrick Wolf
Pipeline Programmer: Bilal Azam
Senior IT Manager: Jack Ghoulian
I/O Manager: Andrew Whitelaw
IT Coordinator: Dennis Murillo
Render Wranglers: Ramon Hernandez, Daniel Sang Yong Lee, Melanie Tucker
Production Accountant: Laura Tiz

And the rest is a collection of Commercial work i’ve composited on.

Etrade Retirement from Maciek Sokalski on Vimeo.

Boost Mobile Ladies Man from Maciek Sokalski on Vimeo.

NBA Wow from Maciek Sokalski on Vimeo.

NBA Anticipation from Maciek Sokalski on Vimeo.

U2 & Green Day “The Saints Are Coming” from Chris Milk on Vimeo.

Chevrolet “Natural Selection” from marc dominic rienzo on Vimeo.

Production Company: SWAY Studio
EP: Shira Boardman
Directors: Mark Glaser and John Allardice
DP: John Allardice
CD: Mark Glaser
HOP: Matt Winkel
Live Action and VFX Producer: Romi Laine
Production Coordinator(s): Hannah Yates, Nathan Boldman
Editor: John Allardice
VFX Supervisor: Rob Nederhorst

Agency: MacLaren McCann/ Toronto
GCD/AD: Chris Harrison
VP/Director of Broadcast: Franca Piacente
VP/Group Account Director: Richard Phillips
Account Director: Jay Miles
Account Supervisor: Eric Baldakin
Account Executive: Daniel Clark

CG Supervisor: Aaron Powell
CG Vehicle Lead: Daniel Buck
FX Lead: Greg Tsadilas
Digital Artist(s): Daniel Buck, Wayne England, Robert Glazer, Kevin Kipper, Robert Meyers, Aaron Powell, Greg Tsadilas
Compositor(s): Sean Devereaux, Jay Frankenberger, Feliciano di Giorgio, Rob Nederhorst, Marc Rienzo, Maciek Sokalski

Music: Grooveaddicts/ LA
Composer: Tenderbox
Producer: Dain Blair

Mezzo “Leap” from marc dominic rienzo on Vimeo.

This is ‘LEAP’, one of the two Mezzo commercials directed by Joseph Kosinski. The live action was shot on 35mm against greenscreen, and composited into an all cg environment using Nuke. Visual effects were done at Sway Studio. Mezzo was nominated for a VES award: Best Compositing in a Commercial.

see the breakdown here:
http://www.vimeo.com/1454172

Full credits for Mezzo “Leap” and “Race”:

Agency: Timmerman &Tan/Singapore
Creative Director: Michael Tan
Agency Producer: Serene Chiu

Production Company: Rokkit/ London
Director: Joseph Kosinski
DP: Claudio Miranda
EP: Dan Dickenson
Producer: Luke Jacobs


Visual Effects: SWAY Studio
EP: Shira Boardman
Creative Director: Mark Glaser
VFX Supervisor: Robert G. Nederhorst
VFX Producer: Matt Winkel
Compositing Supervisor: Marc Rienzo
FX Lead: Greg Tsalidas
CG Supervisor: Aaron Powell
Texture Lead: Rob Meyers
Compositors: Sean Devereaux, Jay Frankenberger, Feliciano di Giorgio, Maciek Sokalski, Lou Pecora
Paint & Roto: Nicole Yoblonski, Toshihiro Sakamaki, Lee Croft, Lucinda Chee
Tracking: Danny Zobrist, Jay Frankenberger
Architectural Designers: Kevin Cimini, Oliver Zeller
Terragen Development: Matt Fairclough
VFX Coordinator: Hannah Yates
Storyboard Artist: Nathan Boldman
Production Coordinator: Joyce Pan
Production Assistant: Daughn Ward

Sound Design: Machinehead
Sound Designer: ***ody & Chris Mann
Music Supervisor: Jason Bentley
Audio Post: Machinehead
Composers: Chris Mann, Elvin Estela

here is a link to an article featuring Mezzo in American Cinematographer:
simpletricksandnonsense.net/pdf/ac_april_2006.pdf