Patrick Heinen, Wylie Co. senior visual effects supervisor recently completed Dune for Legendary Pictures as the “in-house” team supervisor under the creative eye of Academy Award winning vfx supe Paul Lambert. Patrick lead a team of artists to complete roughly 400 post-vis shots and close to a 1000 visual effects finals for the film. Before Dune Patrick was a vendor supervisor for Terminator: Dark Fate and a supervisor at The Mill Los Angeles for many years.
Patrick also was a lead for one of the largest, most complicated virtual reality projects to date. The project, Google Spotlight Stories’ “HELP”. Detailed information about it can be found here.
Patrick has published white papers on the use of deep compositing in a visual effects pipeline. The research paper can be found here.