Chris Forrester – Curriculum Vitae (CV)

Here you can find my recent work activities and contact details

Employers & Contacts

Seb Barker 2012 (freelance)
Compositing on Feature film “The Sweeney”

MiniVegas 2012 (Freelance)
Keizersgracht 630, 1017 ER Amsterdam, The Netherlands +31 (0) 20 820 22 60
Compositing on Intel Ultrabook

EyeD Creative 2012 (Freelance)
212A Tower Bridge Road London SE1 2UP 020 7407 1440 Mirko Parmigiani
Moshi Monsters advert

DeadPixels 2011 – 2012 (Freelance)
Top Floor, 21a Noel Street. London W1F 8GR. 0207 287 5550 Chris
Compositing on Westfields Christmas advert.
Compositing on Foxy Bingo & Maplins

Airside 2011-2012 (Freelance)
339 Upper Street, Islington, London. N1 0PB 0207 3549912 Sibylle Preuss
Supervised stop motion shoot and the compositing for a short internal brand film for a telecoms company.
Lead on the compositing for the music video “Flashman – To The Victor The Spoils”
Compositor on Simply Health advert, and work on various pitches.

Uli Meyer Studios 2010-2011 (Freelance)
1st & 2nd Floor, 190 Camden High street, Camden Town. London NW1 8QP 0207 2842828 Matt Saxton
Compositing on Domestos toilet cleaner, Raid Bug spray, Honey Cheerio’s, and Nestle Cookie Crisp
Commercials and creating animatics for client testing

Tandem Films 2007 – 2009 & 2011 (Freelance)
26 Cross Street N1 2BG, 0207 6881717
Worked on short form adverts, Cocopops, Weight Watchers, Kinda Bueno, Guardian Newspaper.
Provided services also for an in house film.
Compositor on stop motion advert for Heinz Pasta Pouches.
Services provided for PC World / Currys adverts

Beanimation 2001 June – 2009 June (Full time) 2009-2011 (Freelance)
13 Risborough Street SE1 0HF, 0207 6202595 Gayle Martin
Compositing with clients using an AE setup, working on projects from linetest stage to finished
product. Jobs include, Chocpic (Nestle), Nesquik (Nestle), Harry Hill, Domino’s Pizza (Sky One),
BBC, Wolfblast (Sky Sports), Cartoon Network, Gatorade, HSS, Optiumum, Spee (Henkel)

Th1ng 2010 (Freelance)
199 Wardour Street, London. W1F 8JP 07970720597 Ru Warner
Compositing on Rice Crispies characters for a packshot

Post-Production London Recruitment Company ‘Escape Studios’ 2010-2011 (Freelance)
Work produced for clients advertising, Dove, Vision Express. Carlsberg, Ford and others.
Comfortable jumping into new companies and teams. I am at ease deciphering other peoples files and work methods.

Wordsearch Film 2009-2010 (Freelance)
85 Clerkenwell Road, London EC1R 5AR, 020 7269 0060 David Groundwater
Compositing of video wall visual for architectural visualization.

One Hand Clapping 2009-2010 (Freelance)
172a Arlington Road NW1 7HL, 0207 428 9857 Paul Mckeown
DVD content designed and authored.
Compositing on Dido music video.
3D and Compositing for Ironman2 virals,
Elton John “If It Wasn’t For Bad” music video,
Senit music video

BeglanBrothers 2009 (Freelance)
0203 0528708 Charles Beglan
Compositing services provided on a Kelloggs stop motion advert and print artwork

www.KateSullivan.co.uk 2009 & 2011 (Freelance)
07788738828 Kate Sullivan
News At Bedtime cartoon sketch ( http://tinyurl.com/newsatbedtime ) Compositing and 3D.
Titles for a Film London shortfilm

Hatch.tv 2009 (Freelance)
07949 869054 Antoine Piazza
Short form editing on FCP with clients

McKeown/Devita Productions 2007 – 2009 (Freelance)
172a Arlington Road NW1 7HL, 0207 428 9857 Paul Mckeown
Compositing on Lily Allen/Mark Ronson music viral,and various other music videos (Fear of Music, Andy Burrows, Johnny Flynn) and short form adverts (pot noodle)

The Victorians 2007 – 2008 (Freelance)
07959 342624 Mark Harrison
Editing for short form adverts/ sponsorships mostly for the computer games market (THQ) and compositing

 

 

  • Proficient in the Adobe range of products
  • After Effects CS3-CS5.5
  • Nuke X 6.3
  • Many third party plugins
  • Photoshop, Flash, Illustrator
  • Anime Studio,  formerly MOHO (vector animation, similar to flash)
  • Synth Eyes 2011
  • Imagineer Systems Mocha Pro (rotoscoping, tracking, removal)
  • Toonz (paint and trace)

I edit on a Final Cut Pro (FCP) HD setup (AJA Kona card), but previously used a DPS Velocity System SD. I can operate a Sony DVW-A500P Digital Beta cam Deck, and UVW1800P beta cam deck. I use NUKE by the Foundry in the production environment.  I am able to create my own gizmos to simplify common tasks.  I am at ease using the 3D environment in NUKE, I am able to use projection mappings for removals and cleanplate generation.  I have used NUKE closely with Maya, sending and receiving different data ie Cameras, Objects.

Experience working with Maya, and lightwave (3d packages) building and texturing of simple objects and animating them to accomplish what I have required for different adverts. Maya has been used for producing projection mapping and matte paintings. I have used Boujou and SynthEyes 2011 for match moving, to be used in either Maya or my chosen compositing package.