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Manni
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Lead Lighter at a Legendary VFX Studio.
You've seen my work.
Aotearoa/New Zealand
Deadpool & Wolverine
I think I worked on this...pretty sure I touched the skull in some of those shots.
November 16, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Sizzle Reel
Godzilla x Kong | Senior Lighting | wētāFX
November 9, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Almost no one understands color.

imgs.xkcd.com/comics/color...
#vfx
March 7, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Just image search tulip fields in holland. You het the most amazing millions of tulip reference footage.
January 18, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Light Travel
AVATAR, 2009

January 9, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Love those little Banksy sculptures. Basically everything he does is great. It's my kind of Art #banksy
January 4, 2025 at 1:13 AM
The moon at night is not very bright. It's bright like a piece of paper lit by a candle 1.8m away. Moon lighting in movies is done by adding lights on set to mimic a moon.
December 18, 2024 at 10:39 PM
I Love the soft warm lighting of:
If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)

DIRECTOR - Barry Jenkins @bandrybarry
CINEMATOGRAPHER - James Laxton
COLORIST - Alex Bickel
December 16, 2024 at 8:19 PM
Candy Floss Head
December 15, 2024 at 12:26 AM
Got this right with the first try because I know this shot in detail. Credit to the matte painting.
December 11, 2024 at 1:02 AM
Time Travel
Stevie Stardust TV Series, 1999
I tried a few faky things to make this look good. This was before the use of Ray-Traceing or ambient occlusion for production.
December 10, 2024 at 12:01 AM
Christmas came early. I got a P-Touch Cube label printer. It's glorious!
December 7, 2024 at 11:08 PM
The size of the Pacific is humbling.
December 6, 2024 at 9:55 PM
Light Travel
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes - 2024
Proud of this little sequence. Apes are so fun to light.
#vfx #cgi #apes
December 5, 2024 at 8:40 PM
Light Travel
Luxo 1991 - AMIGA Reflections Animator
At the time you needed I had an external framebuffer to display a single 24Bit image. Then photograph it with a film camera from your 14" CRT monitor.
November 30, 2024 at 4:14 AM
Sticky Note
Pass splitting. Less is more.
November 27, 2024 at 5:29 AM
Lift off
Air Planes are a marvel of engineering.
November 25, 2024 at 6:30 PM
Mood for Love (2000)
This movie looks fantastic.
November 23, 2024 at 7:52 PM
Check your sources. Paris, Texas looks different on Shotdeck
November 23, 2024 at 7:28 PM
Light Travel
Bliss to work on sequence like this.
The Adventures of Tintin, 2011
November 23, 2024 at 12:36 AM
Light Travel
One of my all time favorite projects.
The Adventures of Tintin

November 21, 2024 at 12:58 AM
Light Travel
Amiga 2000 - Reflections Animator
December 1991/92
4x5 test exposure on Polaroid
November 18, 2024 at 5:11 AM
People love the dancing patterns of caustics lights.
I rendered a few caustics for a movie that plays an around water.
#vfx #caustics #light
November 16, 2024 at 3:53 AM
I ❤️ to organize my work with sticky notes. I stick the flat on my desk. When I finished a task I move them to the ‚done pile‘. I prefer that over digital or paper notebooks as I can see task clearing up.
Most of the time it’s a simple reminder. Sometimes it‘s to clarify my mind to improve a shot.
November 16, 2024 at 1:23 AM