Leigh Took - visual and miniature effects supervisor.

I am a VFX and Models Supervisor who has worked in the film and TV industry since 1978.

I served as an apprentice learning the classic techniques of matte painting, and miniatures, at Pinewood Studios for ten years, working on many major feature films, I then left Pinewood to go freelance to work with the late great Derek Meddings on Batman Never ending Story 2 , After than set up a mattes and miniatures facility at Bray Studios,

Over the last twenty-five years, I have supervised miniature,optical and digital effects on feature films,TV,commercials and pop promo's.

I am also a director of Mattes and Miniatures Visual Effects Ltd, based at Bray and Pinewood, leading a crew experienced in all aspects of designing, construction and filming visual effects, My base at Bray Studios includes model and special effects workshops, motion control and matte studio, and these, with the digital facility at Pinewood allow me to combine the best of traditional techniques with the new.

In 1978 Leigh Took started an aprentership at Pinewood Studios with Cliff Cully in Matte Painting and Miniature construction and Photography, Over a 15 year period worked on hundreds of films commercials, TV programs,