I worked on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie from thousands of miles away

Sean Sevestre has played a cardinal relation successful the instauration of the caller blockbuster movie Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - contempt being thousands of miles distant from his Hollywood colleagues.

The 29-year-old Scottish creator has worked connected the ocular improvement of the deed caller movie for 2 years from his Edinburgh home.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, which stars Seth Rogan, Jackie Chan and John Cena, was released earlier this month.

Sean worked arsenic a conception creator connected the movie. He would gully the ideas, past a 3D animator would makes a graphic exemplary from his designs.

"So acold this is the astir interaction I've had successful a film," helium told BBC Scotland.

"Hollywood is precocious paced and breathtaking and the radical I worked with connected this movie reflected that.

"I felt highly respected and trusted. There was ever country for maine to effort worldly and to marque mistakes and to enactment connected things.

"When I watched the movie I thought it looked astonishing - determination is thing that has ever looked similar this before."

Sean spent a decennary teaching himself however to gully and marque films.

"I started a merchandise plan grade astatine assemblage erstwhile I was 17 but aft 4 weeks I discontinue due to the fact that it became wide it wasn't going to thatch maine what I wanted to do," helium explained.

"My mum past enrolled maine astatine creation assemblage connected a coating grade but again I near aft 2 weeks.

"I felt truthful powerfully astir it that I decided to thatch myself. My mum gave maine 2 years to spot if I could marque it work."

From his chamber successful Penicuik, Midlothian, helium began to thatch himself techniques utilizing the internet.

"My mum was reasonably sceptical but she trusted maine due to the fact that I'm not an irrational person.

"I had a burning occurrence wrong me. I was truthful superior astir it that I taught myself relentlessly each day.

"I studied the anatomy of the assemblage and however it moves and however airy works."

Sean said determination had been a batch to learn.

"I disappeared for 3 years and looking backmost it's a spot of a blur.

"I was obsessed successful a bully way. I pushed myself arsenic hard arsenic I could and gave up a batch of societal stuff."

When helium was 20, Sean helium felt helium had reached a bully basal level and started posting immoderate of his work connected sites wherever Hollywood producers look for caller talent.

It was past helium was asked to enactment connected the movie A Monster Calls, which starred Liam Neeson.

"I was truthful excited due to the fact that it felt similar a breakthrough

"All of a abrupt my mum could spot things were moving for me."

Sean said helium learned from his entrepreneurial dada to person the assurance to thatch himself.

He said: "My parents divorced erstwhile I was 5 and I would spot my dada successful the holidays. We would spell snowboarding and I would say: 'I can't snowboard.' He would say: 'I taught myself truthful tin you'."

Sean learned classical guitar and taught myself to bash competitory tricking, a signifier of acrobatics involving flips and twists.

"I got bully astatine tricking and this gave maine the assurance to cognize that I could thatch myself thing I enactment my caput to."

He was past commissioned to enactment connected popular superstar Lil Nas X's Starwalkin' video and directed his ain feature-length documentary, Perfect Storm.

Now helium has built a workplace successful his Portobello location successful Edinburgh.

"Now I really person to crook down enactment that comes successful which is an unthinkable spot to be," helium said.

"Growing up successful a tiny municipality successful Scotland I ne'er thought I'd extremity up moving successful Hollywood.

"But acknowledgment to the net I was capable to marque a sanction for myself successful the manufacture adjacent though I felt acold distant from that world."

Sean got a B successful Higher creation astatine Beeslack High School successful Midlothian.

He added: "I wasn't the creation guy, cipher expected this.

"I've not got this brainsick talent. What I bash is simply a effect of utmost deliberate signifier that has taken maine from being mean to idiosyncratic present with a reputation.

"Anyone who wants it severely capable tin bash it. It's dedicated clip and signifier and hard enactment continually sitting astatine the borderline of your quality that gets you there."

"I'm moving connected thing breathtaking conscionable now, but I can't speech astir it.

"I'm inactive pushing myself and looking to execute more.

"I'm precise blessed wherever I person got to but I don't privation to halt now."