Shrek

I joined the lighting team on Shrek as a Technical Director. Working inside DreamWorks Animation’s proprietary shading and lighting pipeline, I helped turn the film’s stylised look direction into final shots. It was an amazing production to learn from because the visual world was both technically ambitious and completely full of personality.

The film brought together expressive characters, richly varied environments, and a deliberately playful visual tone. Compositing my own shots, I worked closely with surfacing and FX so that all the elements felt like they belonged to the same wonderfully odd world.

It remains a privilege to have worked on a film that has endured so strongly. Shrek continues to mean a great deal to the people who grew up with it, as well as to new audiences discovering it today. I am proud to have contributed to a production whose characters and humour have stayed part of so many people’s lives.