Paul Charisse
Paul Charisse is a lecturer in Animation, and a specialist in facial animation. His first degree was in English Literature and Design Art. He has many years experience of animation within the games and movie industry. He has worked for a variety of VFX companies over the past 10 years, including work on the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy animating the character Gollum. He has also worked in a variety of roles such as an animator, modeller, rigger, crowd TD and pre-viz sequence designer on films including: “Prince Caspian”, “Stardust” “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix ” ,”Zorro II”, ”Hellboy II” ,”Brothers Grimm”.
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Research Interests
- Animation and facial animation
Professional Activities
- Speaker, 'Stina and the wolf': Film production as a tool for education, HEA Arts and Humanities Conference, Brighton, UK, 2016
- Speaker, "Making Avatar at a University" - Presentation to Secondary level students, 2014
- Participant, FEST New Directors New Films Festival, Espinho, Portugal, 2014
- Invited Speaker,'Stina and the Wolf': Feature Film production in Higher Education, Higher Education and the Creative Economy, London, 2014
- Speaker, Industry panel event at "Eastleigh film Festival", 2014
- Speaker, video presentation in "Dailies" section along side Pixar and Dreamworks, SIGGRAPH 2014, Vancouver, Canada
- Speaker, Talk on film production in Education at Eastliegh Film Festival student event, 2014
- Invited Speaker, Stina and the Wolf: Self-confidence through collaboration, The Itinerant Seminar in UK: Self confidence and Creativity, 2014
- Invited Speaker, Softimage Creatives, London, 2013
- Speaker, "Film production in Education" - Presentation to 6th form Students, 2012
- Visiting Lecturer, Drama Workshop Outreach and Auditions for Stina and the Wolf, the Gregg school in Southampton, 2010
Publications
[1] Charisse, Paul. "Stina and the Wolf", the 30th special edition of Vicon's publication "the Standard", 2015
[2] Charisse, Paul. "Archiving software and content in visual film effects: an insider's perspective." In Preserving Complex Digital Objects. Facet Publishing, 2014.
[3] Charisse, Paul, and Alex Counsell. "‘Stina & the Wolf’the Movie: feature film production in education." In 'Stina & the Wolf'the movie: feature film production in education. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2014.
[4] Charisse, Paul. "Stina and the Wolf", the 1st issue of Portsmouth RISE magazine (front cover feature), 2013