Chas Jarrett is an Oscar and BAFTA nominated, and VES winning Visual Effects Supervisor. He began his career as a lighting cameraman and Steadicam operator shooting music promos, sports and documentaries. This experience in live-action production has brought a thorough understanding of traditional lighting and camera techniques to his work in visual effects. - - - - - - - - - - In 1998 he joined The Moving Picture Company (MPC) and worked on a wide variety of film and television projects as an animator and lighting Technical Director. He soon established himself as a project supervisor on commercials, broadcast projects and then feature films. His credits include: Sequence Supervisor for The World is not Enough, CG Supervisor for Harry Potter 1 & 2 and VFX Supervisor for a number of high profile features including Troy, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (for which he received a BAFTA nomination) and Poseidon (for which he received an Oscar nomination). In 2005 Chas joined MPC's board of directors. After being twice loaned-out to supervise for director Tim Burton – first on a music video for The Killers (for which he received a VES nomination) and then as the production VFX Supervisor for the film adaptation of Sweeney Todd for Dreamworks/Warner Brothers, Chas left MPC in 2007 to work as an independent visual effects supervisor.
Chas is currently based in London working on a project for Dinsey. |
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