Leads hands-on compositing for advertising projects, overseeing shot quality and team delivery while coordinating with VFX, CG and production teams to solve creative and technical challenges.
Compositor (Freelancer)
📜 Description
- Collaborate with Compositing and Visual Effects Supervisors on creative and technical approaches to assigned shots
- Execute shots from briefs and direction provided by Lead Compositors and VFX Supervisors
- Integrate 2D, 3D, and live-action elements to visual-effects film standards
- Meet schedules and show deadlines; communicate timing with Production and Leads
- Manage workload, time, and supervisor feedback
- Apply colour-space knowledge and keying skills to create clean mattes and seamless composites
🛠️ Requirements
- Minimum of 5+ years of experience
- Excellent working knowledge of Nuke and production experience
- Familiarity with stereo compositing and multiple render passes
- Strong eye for detail, composition, colour, and lighting
- Strong organisation, communication, and interpersonal skills; proactive and collaborative work ethic
- Ability to multitask, prioritise, and solve problems
- Understanding of colour-space principles and working knowledge of the Hollywood pipeline
- Desirable: practical photography lighting, VFX pipeline, client communication, or programming and coding experience
Full job description
Compositors seamlessly integrate all the layers or elements of a shot, including live-action and computer graphic elements.
Compositors work closely with Visual Effects Supervisors and CG Supervisors to composite the numerous elements that complete visual-effects shots.
Responsibilities:
Working in collaboration with the Compositing Supervisor and Visual Effects Supervisor to evaluate the creative and technical approach to assigned shots
Taking briefs and direction from Lead Compositors and VFX Supervisors to execute assigned shots
Integrating 2D, 3D and live action elements to high-end visual effects film standard
Meeting schedules and show deadlines
Ongoing communication with Production and Leads regarding schedules and deadlines
Taking responsibility for own workload, time management and notes/feedback actions required by Supervisors
Balancing the creative and technical aspects of each shot
Working with a good knowledge of colour space principles
strong keying skills, with the ability to extract clean mattes, manage edge quality and deliver seamless output
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