Behind the Scenes with Rodeo FX: Creating the Environments of Netflix's Damsel

VFX Supervisor Mathieu Dupuis is passionate about every detail in a visual effects project and it’s evident when collaborating with him. In his compositing career, he worked on some of the most complex and groundbreaking films like 300, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and Avatar. His more recent projects include massive hits like Millie Bobby Brown’s Damsel, Dune, Better Call Saul and Marvel’s Oscar-nominated Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.

Mathieu’s early career working with Flame began in Montreal at some of the city’s first visual effects hubs like Buzz Image Group, Hybride and Oblique FX where he moved from Lead Compositor to Compositing Supervisor on The Expanse, and A
Breath Away. His career at Rodeo FX started on a high note with work on Overlord, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald and Stranger Things season 3, then moved onto the film Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey (as comp supervisor).

Mathieu is also well versed in production and loves what a strong team working in sync can do to elevate a project. Bringing an idea from one’s imagination into an efficient pipeline and realising full-fledged CG realities still gives him a jolt every
time.