Stuart Willis
Editor VFX Supervisor at Draft Zero: a screenwriting podcast
Greater Melbourne Area Australia
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Top SchoolStuart Willis is an award-winning filmmaker, editor and VFX supervisor based in Greater Melbourne with nine years’ focused experience leading post-production, on-set VFX and animation workflows. As founder of Studio Stu and a consulting post supervisor at Future Associate, he blends creative direction with hands-on technical leadership to shepherd projects from script to final composite. His background spans major studio features and boutique productions—from dailies coordination on a Pirates of the Caribbean film to layout and stereography supervision—giving him fluency across large-scale pipelines and indie sensibilities. Trained in narrative filmmaking, screenwriting and directing at the Victorian College of the Arts, he pairs formal storytelling craft with practical production management (including Scrum) to keep complex teams delivering under pressure. He also produces a long-running screenwriting podcast and brings an actor-directing perspective from Mike Leigh–style training, a less obvious strength that helps him get nuanced performances out of VFX-driven scenes.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
TV Writer's Studio and Writer's Lab, TV Writer's Studio and Writer's Lab at Epiphany InternationalScrum Project Management, Scrum Project Management at Scrum AllianceMasters of Film and Television (Narrative), Advanced Screenwriting, Advanced Directing, Most Outstanding Overall Post-Graduate Student, Masters of Film and Television (Narrative), Advanced Screenwriting, Advanced Directing, Most Outstanding Overall Post-Graduate Student at Victorian College of the ArtsShort scene and Long scene improvisation, Short scene and Long scene improvisation at Improvisation Australia'Under Pressure' Masterclass with Kate Dennis, 'Under Pressure' Masterclass with Kate Dennis at Australian Director's GuildLLB (Hons), Intellectual Property and Constitutional History, LLB (Hons), Intellectual Property and Constitutional History at Macquarie UniversityThe Mike Leigh Method with Robert Marchand, The Mike Leigh Method with Robert Marchand at 16th Street Actors StudioPhotography, Photography at Australian Centre for PhotographyDirecting Actors Masterclass with Kate Woods, Directing Actors Masterclass with Kate Woods at Australian Directors GuildStory Structure Masterclass, Story Structure Masterclass at Stephen Cleary
Github Skills (22)
macos-big-sur10
timer9
period8
wait7
macos5
twine3
youtube2
javascript2
python2
cli2
music2
backup2
command-line-utility2
vue2
podcast2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Draft-Zero-Podcast/dz-shownotes
Apr 2018 - Aug 2020
Contributions:190 commits in 2 years 4 months
Draft-Zero-Podcast/dz-transcripts
Apr 2018 - Dec 2019
Contributions:43 commits, 29 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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