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Rookie Awards 2019

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Paul Oakley

Paul Oakley

Lead Lighting Technical Director

Paul started working at MillFilm as a runner way back in 2000 having no CG experience, armed only with a degree in Fine Arts and a passion for Visual effects. After a brief period of making coffee and asking questions with lots of late night’s training himself. He has been a VFX artist for 14 years within most of the top VFX facilities in London as well as Core Feature Animation in Toronto and currently Pixar Animation Studios in California.

Having worked as a Lead Lighting Technical Director, Lead Modeller and Head of Tracking, his experience includes both Animated feature films and Visual effects on over 30 feature films. These include films such as Black Hawk Down, Children of Men, Golden Compass, The Tale of Despereaux, Avatar, Cars2, Brave, Monsters University, The Blue Umbrella and also several Harry Potter films.