Four Ways to Destroy South Aspen High

4 Ways to Destroy South Aspen High is a 13-minute student film created as the final senior thesis project for the VFX program at SCAD. Produced from September 2025 to May 2026, the film was shot anamorphic in January 2026, with VFX work wrapping in April 2026. The production demanded a non-traditional VFX pipeline, and I served as one of two compositors and the team's sole match move artist across our four-person VFX crew.

As the sole match move artist on the film, I tracked every shot requiring 3D camera solves, providing the foundation the rest of the team built their CG work on top of. The anamorphic lens introduced non-standard distortion characteristics that had to be accounted for throughout the tracking process, making this a more involved workflow than a typical spherical-lens pipeline. More info can be found HERE

As one of two compositors, my work centered on two main tasks — matching CG element, occasionally created by other artists, seamlessly into live-action plates, and removing and extending set details to support the story's practical environments. This required close attention to matching lens characteristics, grain, and color response so the CG elements would hold up against anamorphic footage. Additionally AI workflows were utilized to streamline rotoscoping throughout each shot of the film.