Fantastic Beasts VFX artist visits NUA

NUA was pleased to welcome Lighting and Look Development Technical Director Lorene Bettker, from BAFTA and Oscar award winning VFX studio Framestore to speak to students on the Animation, Film and VFX courses. Lorene recently finished work on Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them the latest film based on J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter universe. Other work includes Jungle Book and the TV special Thunderbirds Are Go! As well as the imminent sequel Kingsman: the Golden Circle due later in 2017. Lighting & LookDev TDs bring their experience of real-world lighting and photography and apply it to computer generated imagery (CGI). They are involved in the technical and artistic aspects of making the CGI fit in to the world that was originally shot on film.