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Suelenโs journey into VFX was never part of the plan. She spent more than a decade in finance, mastering tax compliance, corporate law, and accounting. Her career was built on precision, logic, and structure. It was reliable and predictable until it was not.
Moving to Canada changed everything. The years of experience she had worked so hard to build no longer mattered. To stay in finance, she would have to return to school, spend thousands on tuition, and start from scratch. It was not just the financial cost that made her pause. It was the realization that she no longer saw a future in it.
That was when she turned to photography. At first, it was just a way to break from routine and channel her frustration, but it quickly became more. Photography trained her to think visually, compose images, balance light, and use color to tell a story. Every shot was a creative puzzle, a new challenge in problem solving.
It did not take long for her curiosity to expand beyond still images. If she could blend photographs, why not moving images. Compositing felt like the next step.
Determined to push her creativity further, Suelen enrolled at Alpha Chromatica Education (ACE) and dove into compositing. Nuke was nothing like photography. It was highly technical and demanded a different kind of problem solving.
One of her major challenges was her Keying Project. The goal was to replace a background and make it seamlessly match the foreground. Simple in theory, but the lighting between the subject and the new background did not match. She had to learn relighting techniques, balance exposure, adjust shadows, and refine every small detail to bring the scene together.
It was slow work, but she found herself drawn to the process. Every adjustment brought the shot closer to perfection.
Her background in finance gave her an unexpected advantage. Years of combing through data, analyzing patterns, and focusing on details trained her to work with precision. That same instinct translated into compositing, where pixel accuracy and meticulous adjustments made all the difference.
The transition was not easy. In a creative field filled with talented artists, it was tempting to compare progress. Suelen learned to trust her own pace, knowing that growth takes time.
Each project tested her problem solving skills, but it also built her confidence.
Those small wins added up. Reinvention was not about starting over. It was about transforming everything she had built into something new.
Growth was not about speed. It was about persistence, precision, and trusting the right people to guide her.
As Rumi said, โWhen setting out on a journey, do not seek advice from those who have never left home.โ
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Here are some of her landscape shots, capturing the beauty that first pulled her into the world of images.