For this film we had a great collection of on set Spheron HDR images that capture all the color and light details of the ship interior.  They handed me the full inside gunship fighting sequence with John Malkovich and Josh Brolin and asked me to make all the shaders, do the simple animations, supervise the camera tracks, light, and final the 20 plus shots.  Using the best HDR image out of the collection I created linear color workflow shaders and matched the lighting on set with roughly 30 scaled and placed area lights, which allows Mental Ray with Maya rendering to do the magic.

I have to admit this is a little embarrassing to post my small contribution to the film Avatar, but here it is and in the movie theater this shot was the first with strong obvious stereoscopic effect.  My task was to create and animate drops of water floating and combining  in zero-gravity with RealFlow, then light and render out through Maya and Mental Ray.

For the destruction of Hawaii sequence (5 shots) I used Maya for Look-dev, lighting, and matte-painting camera projections of the Waikiki skyline, then fluids and dynamics for adding smoke, lava, and water splashes to destroy the city.

For this Adam Sandler film I worked on water simulations using Maya Fluids.  Once the water dynamic motion was approved I continued to work on the shots doing water Look Development and Lighting.  In addition to this I completed an environment shot as a generalist where I created Paint Effects plants and trees for the land, put in crocodiles swimming through the water, and final the lighting.

I did work on the film Meet Dave doing dynamic animation, look development, lighting and Flame compositing for a sequence where CG humans fly through the air with simulated plastic bags.