Flying Hippo

David Booth Visual Effects Supervisor

Profile David Booth is one of the most highly experienced and respected Visual Effects Supervisors in Australia. He was worked on many high profile feature films including Australia, Knowing, Bright Star, Charloe’s Web and To Catch A Fire. He also has an impressive track record in television, having worked on projects including Farscape, Jason and the Argonauts and Walking With Dinosaurs, all of which earned him Emmy nominaons. He won an Emmy Award for his work on Hallmark’s Alice In Wonderland, and went on to work on Stephen King’s Nightmares and Dreamscapes. David recently worked on the feature film Sanc- tum, directed by Alister Grierson and produced by James Cameron, and is presently working on Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby.

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FEATURES

2012/ THE GREAT GATSBY Visual Effects Arst/ Bazmark Producons 13 Supervisor Dir: Baz Luhrmann GODDESS Visual Effects Arst WildHeart Films Dir: Mark Lamprell 2011 MAGIC PIANO Visual Effects Supervisor BreakThru Films Dir: Marn Clapp 33 POST CARDS Visual Effects Arst Portal Pictures Dir: Pauline Chan THE FLYING MACHINE Visual Effects Supervisor BreakThru Films Dir: Marn Clapp 2010 SANCTUM Visual Effects Supervisor Universal | Lightstorm Ent Dir: Alister Grierson ICE Visual Effects Director Power (UK) Dir: Nick Copus CANE TOADS: THE CONQUEST Visual Effects Arsts Screen Australia | Parcipant 3D Media Documentary Dir: Mark Lewis 2009 KNOWING Digital Effects Arst Summit | Escape Arsts Dir: Alex Proyas BRIGHT STAR Composing Apparion | BBC Films Dir: Jane Campion 2008 AUSTRALIA Visual Effects Supervisor Fox | Bazmark Films Dir: Baz Luhrmann Flying Hippo

THE BANK JOB Visual Effects Supervisor Lionsgate | Omnilab Dir: Roger Donaldson 2006 CATCH A FIRE Visual Effects Supervisor Focus Features | Working Title Dir: Phillip Noyce CHARLOTTE’’S WEB Visual Effects Supervisor Paramount | Walden Media Dir: Gary Winick 2004 HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS Visual Effects Sony Pictures Classics Dir: Zhang Yimou THUNDERSTRUCK Visual Effects Supervisor Icon (Australia) Dir: Darren Ashton

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2011 SPARTACUS: GODS OF THE Visual Effects Supervisor - Starz Media ARENA. Sauce VFX Creator: Steven S DeKnight

2006 NIGHTMARES AND DREAM- Visual Effects Supervisor TNT | Coote/Hayes Producons SCAPES: FROM THE STORIES OF Dir: Various STEPHEN KING Emmy Award Nominaon FARSCAPE: THE PEACEKEEPER Visual Effects Supervisor SYFY | Jim Henson Company | RHI WARS Dir: Brian Henson Emmy Award Nominaon 2001 JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS Visual Effects Supervisor NBC | RHI Entertainment Emmy Award Nominaon WALKING WITH DINOSAURS: Visual Effects Supervisor BBC “BALLAD OF BIG AL” Dir: Tim Haynes DINOTOPIA Visual Effects Supervisor ABC | RHI Entertainment Dir: Marco Brambilla 1999 ALICE IN WONDERLAND Visual Effects Supervisor NBC | RHI Entertainment Emmy Award Winner Dir: Nick Willing

2001 - 2007 Visual Effects Supervisor DIGITAL PICTURES ILOURA Involved in the pre-producon, producon and post produc- on of all visual effects for Digital Pictures Iloura. This includes script breakdown and budgeng, technical and design input for all forms of effects; previs, shoot supervision, and post pipeline structuring and supervision through to final delivery. Flying Hippo

1998 - 2001 Visual Effects Supervisor FRAMESTORE, LONDON

1997 - 1998 Visual Effects Supervisor/ ANIMAL LOGIC, SYDNEY Senior Technical Director

1995 - 1996 Senior Digital Arst SOHO 601, LONDON

1990 - 1995 Senior Technical Director/ ANIMAL LOGIC, SYDNEY Digital Arst David was an integral part of the setup of Animal Logic and instrumental in all aspects of technical direcon on all high- end jobs. He was also involved in the early development of Flame. Examples of award winning Jobs include Adidas, Hyun- dai, Singapore Airlines, Nike.

1986 - 1990 Technical Director VIDEO PAINTBRUSH COMPANY, SYDNEY Instrumental in the installaon of the country's first Quantel Harry, plus the development of the 3D department. David assisted Quantel in the development of Harry updates, offer- ing valuable insight gleaned from working on a large number of high-end TV commercials, program tles and corporate idenes.

AWARDS AAFTA Finalist - 2011 Best VFX - Sanctum Emmy Award Winner - 1999 - Alice in Wonderland Internaonal Monitor Award 1999 - Best VFX - Alice in Wonderland Emmy Award Nominee - 2000 - Jason and the Argonauts Emmy Award Nominee - 2001 - Walking with Dinosaurs Emmy Award Nominee - 2004 – Farscape – ‘The Peacekeeper Wars’ Internaonal Monitor Award - Best Editor - 1997 Ford Probe Rocket Various other local and internaonal awards

Contact informaon:

David Booth P.O. Box 4110, CastleCrag, Sydney 2068 T: +612 8090 6512 M: +61 (0) 448 881 539 Skype: flyinghippo02 Flying Hippo

Email: davidb@flyinghippo.com.au