Shawn Barnett

Shawn Barnett was born in Kansas City on November 6th 1977 to William & Deborah Barnett and has one brother, James Barnett. Through the encouragement of his parents, Shawn pursued a creative career that would eventually lead him to the feature film and TV industry. With his first break at Legend 3D he quickly worked his way to the top to become "Comp Supervisor". Screen credited as the Comp Supervisor with Legend 3D on Transformers 3 Dark of the Moon. Shawn continually pushed himself and his team to create the highest quality visual effects and compositing for stereoscopic playback. With the experience of multiple feature films, Shawn has been able to work closely with industry leading studios like ILM, Digital Domain, Paramount, Sony, and DreamWorks to create and manage the production of visually stunning stereoscopic feature and catalog films, utilizing Nuke AE and CGI elements.

After supervising the re-release of Top Gun at Legend, Shawn moved on to work with Deluxe Studios in LA on John Carter, The Avengers and the re-release of Titanic. In 2012 Shawn began work with Pixomodo doing traditional 2D VFX Compositing on Spiderman, Game of Thrones along with many other award winning shows and feature films.

With Shawn's skills, experience and history of creative management he also implemented training programs to teach incoming employees (often strait out of college) how to stereo composite, along with training outsource facilities in India.

Having experience as a CGI Modeler/Animator and a College Instructor Shawn's goal is to continue to achieve creative perfection within the film industry and at some point return to teaching at the college level to share all his professional success and experience with students.