Vilmos Thernesz

  

 

Personal Profile

Originally film DoP, more than 10 years industry experiences as compositor, painter, 2D lead, VFX supervisor, VFX cinematographer, colourist.
Special skills are photorealistic aspect, cognition and use the natural optical laws, the character of lights, and the artless view of the surfaces.
Strength in the usage various softwares.

  

 

  
 
 
 
 

Personal information

EU Citizen, free working permit
Residency: London, Budapest
Nationality Hungarian
Date of birth 26.08.1961
Marital Status married, children: 1 girl (15 y) 1 boy (11 y)
Address Bodor u. 20. 1138 Budapest, Hungary
Email vilmos@thernesz.com
Phone: +36305069096

Work experience:

09.2010 -                    DigicPictures Budapest  Lighting TD, senior compositor
11.2009 - 07.2010    Titania MasterPro Budapest, Pulses and Waves production, VFX supervisor
09.2009 - 10.2009    NVizible London digital compositor
10.2007 - 06.2009    Oberon VFX Budapest
Founder in 2000. Senior compositor, vfx supervisor, 2D lead in all projects. Matte and texture painter, Lustre colourist, 3D artist, vfx cinematographer in some projects. At the beginning with two artists, later on leading around thirty in the production peaks. 
The position involved managing the all divisions, compositing of the most difficult shots, overall vfx planning, creating complete vfx breakdowns, on set supervising, post prod supervising, making the footages and high-res photos for the vfx  layers.
Oberon VFX has specialized for photorealistic visual effects mainly in the feature film market.
06.2007 - 09.2007    Machine FX London digital compositor
08.2000 - 05.2007    Oberon VFX Budapest senior compositor, vfx supervisor,
02.1980 - 08.2000    DoP, cinematographer in different projects.

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Educations:

1989-1993 M.A. in cinematography ( Hungarian Academy of Theatre and Film)
Masters were among others Vilmos Zsigmond ASC, Billy Williams BSC, Haskel Wexler ASC
1984-1988 M.A. in History and Literature (Eötvös Loránd University Budapest)
1983 Photographer (Hungarian Film laboratory)

Advanced skills:

Apple Shake, Foundry Nuke, Adobe Photoshop, Autodesk Lustre, Autodesk Edit, cinematography (lighting), photography


Experiences:

Autodesk Flame, Autodesk Smoke, Autodesk Maya, Eye on Fusion, 2D3 Bojou, Adobe After Effects, Silicon Grail Rayz, Quark Xpress


Awards:

Study on Photography 3 Awards Nimes 1990: Grand Prix, Best experimental film, Best montage (director, DoP, Hungarian Film academy)
Csaba Bollok: Silver Age 2 Awards Saint-Petersburg 1994: First Film Prize, Prize of the Russian Television (DoP, Hungarian Film academy)
The Paper  Camera Hungarian 1999 Best nonfiction production (director, DoP, Hungarian Television)

Features:


Mike Newell: Prince of Persia: The sands of time (digital compositor Nvizible London)
Andrei Konchalovsky: Nutcracker: The Untold Story (final compositor, sequence supervisor,  Oberon Studio Budapest)
Roland Emmerich: 10000 BC (digital compositor Machine FX London)
David Dobkin: Fred Claus (digital compositor Machine FX London)
Kenneth Branagh: The Magic Flute (digital compositor Pridentum Budapest)
Marta Meszaros: The Unburied Man (final compositor, visual effects supervisor, 2D lead, matte painter Oberon Studio Budapest)
Jozsef Pacskovszky: Four Seasons in Space (senior compositor, lead 2D,
visual effects supervisor, painter Oberon Studio Budapest)
Istvan Szaladjak: Bird Saviour, Clouds and Wind (senior compositor,  visual effects supervisor, colourist Oberon Studio Budapest)
Andor Szilagyi: Mansfeld (senior compositor, visual effects supervisor, Oberon Studio Budapest)
Tibor Szemzo: A Guest of Life (visual effects supervisor)
Michael Steiner -- Mein Name Ist Eugen (leader compositor, painter)
Attila Bokor: 56 Drops of Blood (Lustre colourist, compositor)

Lajos Koltai: Fateless (revisualization supervisor, animate compositor)
Bela Tarr: The Man from London (revisualization supervisor)
Mihaly Gyorik: The Valley of Fear (revisualization supervisor)
Csaba Czinkoczy: Moon in Seventh House (revisualization, layout artist)
Anthony Waller: Nine Miles Down (revisualization, layout artist)



Selected Commercials:

Rauch, (DoP,  vfx cinematographer, director, vfx supervisor, compositor)
Pepsi, (DoP, vfx cinematographer, director, vfx supervisor, compositor)
Coca Cola - Twister (DoP, vfx cinematographer, vfx supervisor, compositor)
Mc Donald’s, (DoP, vfx supervisor, compositor)
Heineken - Soproni (DoP, vfx cinematographers, vfx supervisor, compositor)
T-Mobil, (vfx supervisor, compositor)
Globus, (DoP, vfx cinematographers, vfx supervisor, compositor)
Nestle, (vfx supervisor, compositor)
Theodora, (DoP, vfx cinematographers, vfx supervisor, compositor)
Radio 1, (DoP, vfx cinematographers, vfx supervisor, compositor)
K&H bank (vfx supervisor, compositor)
Uniqa (vfx supervisor)
Astra Seneca (art director, vfx supervisor, compositor)
Mizo ( DoP, vfx cinematographers, vfx supervisor, compositor)

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
 


Part-time teacher of visual effects technologies for cinematography students at the Hungarian Film Academy at 2006 .
Part-time teacher of visual effects technology at Budapest College of Communication and Business at 2009.
Part-time teacher of cinematography and visual effects technology at DINEX Filmschool Budapest.

I love riding my motorbike, and I am a fan of angling (in my younger years I even
attended competitions and became a national champion).