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Congratulations to the multitude of Ex’pression College Alumni who worked on Captain America: The First Avenger!

Many of our Animation & Visual Effects alumni worked as stereoscopic rotoscope artists for The Base Studio, converting this movie from 2D to 3D. In all, The Base Studio converted about 1000 shots from 2D to 3D! Alumnus Dylan Jutt, Class 65, is also the Resident Maya Generalist at The Base Studio. Check out his company bio on their website. For more info about the 2D to 3D conversion process for Captain America: The First Avenger, read the article with Jordon Freda, Producer at The Base Studio, on ComicBookMovie.com. The Base Studio is located in Foster City, CA.

For many of the graduates that worked on this film, it marked their first feature film credit. We caught up with a couple of them and this is what they had to say.

Melissa Flores:

“It was amazing just knowing that something I was working on millions of people would be viewing. I consider it a great stepping stone for my career in the industry.”

Airyque Ervin:

“Stereoscopic rotoscoping is a little different from traditional rotoscopoing. Typically when we roto, we go 1-2 pixels inside the silhouette. Stereo roto is 1-2 pixels outside the silhouette. Speaking of “silhouette”; that is the name of the program we used. It was a little challenging learning the new software, but thanks to the education from Ex’pression, I was able to adapt and learn it very quickly. Through much hard work and my diligent efforts on the project, I was able to land my first official credit on a feature film.”

Ex’pression College Graduate credits on Captain America: The First Avenger

• Nick Alixopulos, Class 57
• Alyson Asami, Class 78
• Taylor Blete, Class 86
• Edward Brugge, Class 70
• Nicole Burch, Class 86
• Kathy Carlston, Class 80 (uncredited, Evil Eye Pictures)
• Nathaniel Chung, Class 83
• Dominic Constantine, Class 74
• Airyque Ervin, Class 77
• Anthony Evans, Class 74
• Olivia Fernandez, Class 82
• Aaron Fetherkile, Class 64
• Melissa Flores, Class 64
• Travis Gorman, Class 80 (uncredited, Evil Eye Pictures)
• Scott Gudahl, Class 78
• Sebastian Guerne, Class 86
• Warren Hirsch, Class 76
• Alex Kasten, Class 67
• Brian Malmstrom, Class 70
• Nereyda Pimentel, Class 83
• Brian Salcedo, Class 84
• David Schrijn, Class 75
• Jonathan Scion, Class 78
• Phillip M. Shaw, Class 85
• Keith D. Simpson, Class 74
• Ryan Soule, Class 77
• Matthew Suggett, Class 86
• Thomas Sydnor, Class 81
• Barry Tuttle, Class 74
• Jeanette Vera, Class 76