Ricardo Musch

Ricardo Musch

Senior Nuke Compositor & Pipeline Developer/Consultant

Lead Compositor / Compositing Supervisor / Supervisor Pipeline Consultant / 13 yrs

London, United Kingdom

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Pipeline TD

M3GAN (2023)

VFX Pipeline Supervisor

Dangerous Liaisons (2022)

VFX Pipeline Supervisor

Bad Sisters (2022)

VFX Pipeline Supervisor

Dinosaurs - the Final Day with David Attenborough (2022)

VFX Pipeline Supervisor

Universe (2021)

VFX Pipeline Supervisor

The Watch (2020)

Visual Effects Pipeline Supervisor

Mars: One Day on the Red Planet (2020)

VFX Pipeline Supervisor

Breeders (2020)

VFX Pipeline Supervisor

Avenue 5 (2020)

VFX Pipeline Supervisor

Giri/Haji (2020)

VFX Pipeline Supervisor

A Christmas Carol (2019)

Senior Compositor

Curfew (2019)

On-Set Postvis Supervisor

Men in Black: International (2019)

Senior Compositor

Avengers: Endgame (2019)

Senior Compositor

The Festival (2019)

VFX Editorial

2036 Origin Unknown (2018)

Senior Compositor

Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

Compositing & Pipeline Supervisor

Ready Player One (2018)

Senior Compositor

Britannia (2018)

Lead Compositor & Pipeline Supervisor

Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018)

Compositing & Pipeline Lead

Johnny English Strikes Again (2018)

Lead Compositor

The fate of the furious (2017)

Senior Compositor

Sully (2016)

Senior Compositor

X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)

Digital Compositor

The Jungle Book (2016)

Digital Compositor

The Revenant (2016)

Nuke Compositor

Eye in the Sky (2016)

Nuke Compositor

Our Kind of Traitor (2016)

Digital Compositor

Fantastic Four (2015)

Visual Effects Artist

Beste Vrienden (2015)

Senior Compositor

Fortitude (2015)

Nuke Compositor

Everest (2015)

Nuke Compositor

Shaun the Sheep Movie (2015)

Prep/Nuke Arist

Jupiter Ascending (2015)

Visual Effects Artist

Centurion Resurrection (2014)

Digital Compositor

Sophie's Fortune (2014)

Stereo Compositor

Hercules (2014)

Digital Compositor

Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This (2014)

Digital Compositor

Star Wars: Threads of Destiny (2014)

Digital Compositor

Kris Kras (2014)

Nuke Artist

The Monuments Men (2014)

Nuke Compositor

Fleming (2014)

Compositing Supervisor

Yonderland (2013)

Compositor

Deception (2013)

Stereo Compositor

The Numbers Station (2013)

Lead Nuke Compositor and TD

Strike Back (2011)

VFX Pipeline Supervisor

How the Universe Works (2010)

Compositing Supervisor

Disney's Descendants

My mixed background in IT and Visual Effects gives me the right mix of skills to apply to various facilities and projects.

Besides being a Compositor with experience on small, medium and big scale productions I also have experience as Comp Supervisor/Lead Compositor/Pipeline Supervisor at small to midsize facilities on various sized projects including "Avengers", "Pacific Rim: Uprising" and "Ready Player One".
Work History
  • Senior Compositor & Pipeline Engineer

    Lola Post Production

    May 2019 - August 2019
    London, United Kingdom
  • Senior Compositor

    Nexus Productions

    April 2019 - April 2019
    London, GB
  • Senior Compositor

    Cinesite

    February 2019 - March 2019
    London, GB
  • Senior Compositor

    Automatik VFX

    September 2018 - November 2018
    London, GB
  • On-Set Compositing Supervisor

    Sony Pictures Entertainment

    July 2018 - September 2018
    London, United Kingdom
  • Pipeline TD

    Escape Studios

    July 2018 - July 2018
    London, United Kingdom
  • Freelance Senior Compositor

    Union Visual Effects

    June 2018 - July 2018
    London, United Kingdom
  • Senior Compositor & Pipeline TD

    Territory Studio

    May 2018 - May 2018
    London, GB
  • Senior Compositor

    Cinesite

    February 2018 - May 2018
  • Compositing & Pipeline Supervisor

    Territory Studio

    February 2017 - January 2018
    London, United Kingdom
  • Compositing Supervisor

    Darkside Studios

    May 2016 - February 2017
  • Senior Compositor

    MPC

    March 2016 - May 2016
    Montreal, Quebec, Canada

    - X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)
    Compositor
    DI Matte Supervisor:
    Supervised the DI matte delivery at the end of the show.
    Oversaw a team of leads, 50+ artists doing over 600 shots and making sure the DI Mattes where delivered according to client spec.
    Held presentations and set up templates and training material for this purpose.

    - Sully (2016)
    Compositing on some in-cockpit shots before take-off.

  • Compositing Supervisor & Pipeline TD

    Darkside Studios

    February 2016 - March 2016
  • digital compositor

    MPC

    October 2015 - February 2016
  • Mid Level Digital Compositor

    MPC

    June 2015 - August 2015
    Montreal, Canada Area
  • Pipeline Consultancy/Developer/Engineer

    Nodes&Layers Ltd.

    January 2017 - Present
    London, UK

    I consult clients on their VFX and Production workflows, develop pipeline tools and applications/web-apps for their needs.

  • Pipeline Engineer & Workflow Specialist

    GPL Technologies

    March 2020 - Present

    About every major Streaming/TV Production or Movie that uses ShotGrid.

  • Lead Compositor & Pipeline Consultant

    Territory Studio

    March 2017 - January 2018

    - Fast & Furious 8

  • Digital Compositor / Compositing TD

    Darkside Studios

    January 2015 - May 2015
    London, United Kingdom

    "Strike Back" Season 5 - HBO Cinemax/Sky
    I was involved as Compositor and Nuke Pipeline TD.
    The work involved taking ownership of shots from start to finish, mostly extensive cleanups, roto, keying, set extensions, compositing elements, CG integration and creating effects from reference images like underwater bullets, helicopter blades, smoke, grenades etc.
    I managed the Nuke Pipeline, assessing the need for tools/scripts/gizmo's. When needed I would code pipeline scripts and tools and I asssisted Studio-wide with any pipeline related queries.

  • Compositor

    The Brewery VFX

    September 2013 - October 2013
    London

    Prep and Comp work on "Fleming: The Man That Would Be Bond" (Sky TV Series) and "Tommy Cooper: Not Like This, Like That" (TV Film for ITV)

  • Nuke Artist on "Everest (2015)"

    One Of Us

    November 2014 - December 2014
    London, United Kingdom

    Everest: Nuke Artist ==> Roto, Paint, Cleanup and Keying / Matte Extraction / Developing workflows and pipeline toolsets / Training others in Silhouette and Nuke

  • Nuke Compositor on "Shaun the Sheep Movie"

    Axis VFX

    August 2014 - November 2014
    Bristol, United Kingdom

    "Shaun the Sheep - The Movie" (2015) - Aardman Animations
    Involves: Paint, cleanup, rig removal, 2D tracking, 3D matchmoves and comp work.

  • Nuke Artist on "Our Kind of Traitor"

    One Of Us

    August 2014 - August 2014
    London, United Kingdom

    "Our Kind of Traitor" (2016)
    Various Prep/Comp work as well as creating pipeline tools (Auto-Backdrop Gizmo).

  • Stereo Compositor on "Hercules"

    Stereo D

    May 2014 - July 2014
    London, United Kingdom

    Stereo Conversion and Finaling on Hercules (2014).

    Work involved:
    - Converting shots into multiple layered depth passes to be composited into the final image using depth maps (disparity maps)
    - Cleanplating on backgrounds and still objects as well as moving talent (such as recreating parts of the body occluded by, for example, hair/head/arm/weapon
    - Stereo Painting to fix artifacts and recreate motionblur
    - Extracting hair to composite in Stereo
    - Recreating hair using open splines and various texturing techniques within Nuke.

    Apart from the proprietary conversion techniques used by Stereo-D we heavily relied on Nuke as compositing package supported by Mocha and Silhouette.

  • Prep Artist on "Jupiter Ascending" & "The Monuments Men"

    One Of Us

    November 2013 - April 2014
    London

    "Jupiter Ascending" (2015)
    - Prep and Roto work, from removing markers to reconstructing body parts, hair etc.
    - Responsible for Conform and Quality Control of Roto coming from Stereo Vendors to be used for compositing.

    "The Monuments Men" (2014)
    - Prep Artist

  • Nuke Artist

    Electric Theatre Collective

    August 2013 - August 2013
    London, United Kingdom

    Greenscreen / Roto work on Philips TVC

  • ViewD Artist

    Prime Focus World

    April 2013 - July 2013
    London

    Depth and Stereo Conversion on Feature Films at Prime Focus Film London.

  • Nuke Compositor

    Electric Theatre Collective

    May 2013 - May 2013
    London

    Compositing & Cleanup work on Confused.com TVC

Education
  • Compositing for Profesionals

    Escape Studios

    August 2012 - December 2012
  • Game Design

    NHTV internationaal hoger onderwijs Breda

    November 2006 - November 2007