Experience & Portfolio

Richard Welnowski, EMMY AWARD WINNER, the founder of Compositing Expert, has over twenty years experience in image creating, compositing, and editing for professional and commercial work for film and video production.

Areas of expertise include video and film production using the state of the art technology including HD from its early introduction in 1988 up to today's HD 24P.

Awards and projects include:

“THE ORCHESTRA ” 1990 EMMY AWARD
for Outstanding Achievements in Special Effects.
Produced for PBS, Canal+, & NHK. Directed by OSCAR winning director: Zbig Rybczynski.

"The Orchestra" also received Prix Italia, Grand Prix at Festival in Tokyo and Hi Vision Award, Tokyo 1990.

"KAFKA" 1992 GOLDEN GATE AWARD at the San Francisco International Film Festival. In this film Richard Welnowski created the greatest number of compositing layers (over 100 in each frame). This film broke the record for the longest virtual camera travel (over one kilometer) with an entirely artificial background. Directed by OSCAR winning director: Zbig Rybczynski.

"Lazy Town" Winner of BAFTA 2006 Award

Selected HD work and Productions:

2008

We The People, IMax film - technical director. Filming all scenes with Viper on green backing for compositing into 3D computer generated background.Footage will be resized to 4k and printed on 65mm film for presentation in IMax theaters.The film scheduled to premiere this fall, portrays the events surrounding the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

Bernstein Arpeggio - (in pre-production stage) director, concept, research and preparation: 56 min Visual Film, a presentation of the music and life of Leonard Bernstein. An imaginative fusion of musical performance, narration and striking visual imagery. Music by virtuoso classical guitarist Lucian Plessner will be featured.In cooperation with Leonard Bernstein NYC Office, Unitel Germany, Kansas City Public Television and others.

2007

Test for IMax, Thomson Viper FilmStream, DVS uncompressed recording, shooting on blue screen for 2k/4k compositing with 3D background.Output test in 2D and 3D for Imax film format.

December, Vietnam episode on National Geographic channel, air in HD

National Geographic "Day Under Fire" DP,Three pilot episodes shot with Wide Awake Films from Kansas City

Wilderness Civil War battle shot in Virginia Viper, Clipster mobile setup is used. Temperature 96 deg. explosions, smoke a lot of people as war can be seen. Recording to Clipster in uncompressed mode. All visualization on set fully HD, producers and directors love this mobile setup.

Vietnam, X-Ray battle shot on location in Mississippi

Saipan battle shot on location in South Carolina

Test shooting for National Geographic,Viper Fim Stream mode, uncompressed 16:9 and 2.37:1 low light setup, hospital - Civil War.

Viper Shooting in West. Death Valley temperature about 100 deg, Arches in Utah. Film Stream 2.37:1 and 16:9 444.

No Network shooting movie completed end of January. April, first cut is done and footage moved to post production, compositing and special effects will be done in Iceland, grading in Germany. In movie theaters at the Christmas time.

2006

November 2006 started Island-Norway production, 90 min feature film "No Network" Richard-as TD. The Digital FilmStream production, similar work flow as 35mm (no cables to the recorder) using Viper Film Stream camera in wide mode, Venom FlashPak, Clipster uncompressed disc recorder, Cine-tal monitor for on set LUTs and picture evaluation. The test, transfer Film Stream files to 35 mm film proved, the highest quality result outperforming traditional film.

September 2006 completed second season for LazyTown, 18 more episodes, the successful children show, Winner of BAFTA 2006 Award, presented already in 102 countries around the world. High end shooting with the latest HD digital film technology, motion control, real time compositing into 3D computer generated backgrounds.

Commercial, artistic visualisation for Detroit car show 2006, client Mercedes. Introduction for new Mercedes diesel, pollution free technology, BlueTek. A life artistic show include HD real time compositing; eight choreographed dancers dressed in blue and nature background composited on their bodies.

Director of Photography for 30 sec spot for Nickelodeon, "Backyardigans", second promo, shoot in Kansas City, MO. HD shooting and compositing into 3D Computer generated background

2005

Director of Photography for 30 sec spot for Nickelodeon, Lazy Town first promo, shoot in Kansas City, MO. HD shooting and compositing into 3D Computer generated background

30 sec spot for Nickelodeon, Director of Photography, Technical Director. This National spot was the first introduction for promoting Lazy Town merchandise. Technology. live compositing with ultimatte HD digital, Viper camera, and DVS Clipster for uncompressed HD recording...Work flow for this Spot started with animatics, where camera position and Computer Graphic was predefined for many layers of compositing in each frame.Spot awarded with Tally Award 2006

Technical consulting for a new generation of Lazy Town studios in Iceland, to shoot 18 more epizodes in 2006.

Promo "LazyTown" for Nickjr TV, Technical Director. For the summer of 2005 we have created more than 100 jingles to interract with kids during the broadcasting program. Find more about LazyTown production at www.nickjr.com for technical PR please check CompositingExpert-News

2004

CompositingExpert in Iceland, one year shooting and live compositing for 36 epizodes for Lazy Town, Nickelodeon production. This show is rated as the top children show in USA and also 79+ other countries. Find more about LazyTown production at www.nickjr.com

2003

Advertising spot for Italian circus "Zucchero" director

FC KOELN spots, ultimatte HD digital compositing for film , high end commercial shoot on blue screen, Viper camera directly to DF disk recorder.

"Perspectives" directing, cinematography, editing, 40 min. film shoot in Greece.

"SunGun" conceived and directed music video, CineAlta HD camera, shooting on blue screen with motion control system and motion tracking. Computer generated background and animated characters composited for super hyper surrealistic look.

2002

Special lectures-digital film making at "Animation Campus" Munich, Germany

Collective photo exhibition in Wroclaw, celebration of 50 years ZPAF

Directing, shooting short comic films with Andrey Jigalov

"Looking Inside" ballet transformation, written for film by Richard Welnowski, First Prize in Prague at International Ballet Festival

"Mandana" -directing and cinematography, short TV promo for new song, presented by SAT1, RTL

HD-consulting, digital imaginery and HD projection was used as background for "Orpheus and Euredickie" students work for Academy of Art and Media (KHM-Cologne)

2001

- "WAS TUN GEGEN STEIGENDE SPRITPREISE" - Bundesministerium Umwelt
HD 24P spot for movie theaters. This was the first commercial in Europe to shoot directly to Directors Friend capturing unit.

1992
"KAFKA" - Telemax, Les Editions Audiovisuelies
"CURTAINS" - opening sequence for "Tonight Show" for NBC

1991
"MANHATTAN" - Zbig Vision and NHK Enterpreises USA, Inc.
"WASHINGTON" Zbig Vision and NHK Enterpreises USA, Inc.
"VH-1 JINGLES" VH-1 promo

1989
"THE ORCHESTRA" - Zbig Vision and EX Nihilo, cooprod.NHK, Canal+, PBS

1989
"GMF GROUPE" - Zbig Vision and EX Nihilo
"CAPRICCIO NO 24" - TVE's "The Art of Video"
"YOU BETTER DANCE" music video for "The Jets", MCA Records
"COWBELL" music video for Takeshi Itoh, CBS Records

1988
"FLUFF" - RAI-TV
"BlUE LIKE YOU" - music video for Etienne Daho, Virgin Records

Richard Welnowski was formerly CEO of Zbig Vision.
See www.zbigvision.com for more project experience.

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