Project: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2016)
Role: Compositor
Company: Industrial Light and Magic
Time on Project: 7 months

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows is a very silly film, but it was a lot of fun to work on. The work was primarily the fully CG characters - the 4 turtles as well as new characters Bepop and Rocksteady, as well some environment work.

The character design and animation style changed slightly from the first film, giving the characters a more cartoony style, which was fun to work with. And as usual from ILM, the renders of the characters looked great. So the major work of compositing was in getting the characters to really feel like they were in the plate photography.

Composite - CG characters and Statute of Liberty torch.

Composite - Cleanup of standin actors, adding CG characters.

Composite - Cleanup of standin actors, adding CG characters. The most challenging thing for this shot was in restoring Megan Fox's hair where she was in front of the turtles.

Composite - Cleanup of standin actors, adding CG characters.

Composite - CG characters.

Composite - CG characters.

Composite - CG characters.

Composite - CG characters