Ari Reisner

Work History

• Digital Compositor

  Keep Me Posted

  September 2024 - Present

• Freelance Compositor

  Transition VFX

  November 2011 - Present

  Greater New York City Area
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  In-House VFX Compositor "Evil" Season 2

  CBS Studios

  January 2021 - September 2021

  Brooklyn, New York, United States
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  Lead Compositor

  Alkemy X

  February 2020 - September 2020

  Lead talented teams of visual effects artists working on high profile episodic shows such as Fear the Walking Dead (season 6) and Power Book II: Ghost.
  
  Job Responsibilities:
  
  Created looks, templates and tools for artists to achieve congruent results. Aided the VFX Supervisor and Producer, provided guidance to artists and was generally of service in whatever ways were best needed for the team on a daily basis. Researched and compiled references necessary for the shots/sequences we were working on. Helped team transition to working remotely. Checked in with the team on a daily basis, both in groups and individually. Reviewed all shots for technical issues and integrity before sending to client. Gave notes on shots regarding technical and artistic direction. Composited and completed shots in efforts to meet deadline targets.
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  Freelance Compositor

  Alkemy X

  October 2019 - February 2020

• Freelance Compositor

  After Party VFX

  August 2019 - September 2019

  Greater New York City Area
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  Freelance Compositor

  The Mill

  July 2019 - August 2019
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  Freelance Compositor

  The Mill

  June 2019 - June 2019

  Greater New York City Area
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  Freelance Compositor

  The Mill

  May 2019 - May 2019

  Greater Chicago Area
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  Freelance Compositor

  ODD - Office of Development & Design

  May 2019 - May 2019

  Greater New York City Area
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  Freelance Compositor

  Taylor James

  March 2019 - March 2019

  Greater New York City Area
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  Freelance Compositor

  Shade VFX

  February 2019 - February 2019
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  Freelance Compositor

  Shade VFX

  January 2019 - January 2019
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  Freelance Compositor

  east side effects, Inc.

  September 2018 - December 2018

  Greater New York City Area

• Freelance Compositor

  Spontaneous

  August 2018 - September 2018

  Greater New York City Area
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  Freelance Compositor

  Shade VFX

  July 2018 - July 2018

  Greater New York City Area
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  Freelance Lead Compositor

  loyalkaspar

  June 2018 - June 2018

  Greater New York City Area

  Lead a team of Nuke Compositors in cleanup, preparation and compositing of footage into various devices screens for a high-profile clients' upcoming promotional commercial.
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  Freelance Compositor

  Powerhouse VFX

  April 2018 - April 2018

  Greater New York City Area
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  Freelance Compositor

  MPC

  March 2018 - March 2018

  Greater New York City Area
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  Freelance Compositor

  Method Studios

  March 2018 - March 2018

  Greater New York City Area
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  Compositor

  Shade VFX

  November 2017 - February 2018

  Greater New York City Area
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  Freelance Compositor

  Taylor James

  September 2017 - October 2017

  Greater New York City Area
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  Freelance Compositor

  Scholar

  July 2017 - August 2017

  Greater New York City Area
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  Freelance Compisitor

  Big Film Design

  June 2017 - July 2017

  Remote
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  Freelance Compositor

  Imaginary Forces

  February 2017 - June 2017

  Greater New York City Area
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  Freelance Compositor

  Method Studios

  February 2017 - February 2017

  Greater New York City Area
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  Freelance Compositor

  Eight VFX

  January 2017 - February 2017

  Greater New York City Area
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  Freelance Compositor

  Los York

  January 2017 - January 2017

  Greater New York City Area
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  Freelance Compositor

  east side effects, Inc.

  October 2016 - December 2016

  Greater New York City Area
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  Freelance Compositor

  MPC

  August 2016 - September 2016

  New York, New York
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  Freelance Compositor

  Imaginary Forces

  July 2016 - August 2016

  Greater New York City Area
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  Freelance Compositor

  MPC

  June 2016 - June 2016

  Greater New York City Area
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  Freelance Compositor

  The-Artery

  June 2016 - June 2016

  Greater New York City Area
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  Digital Compositor

  Method Studios

  May 2016 - June 2016

  Greater New York City Area
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  Freelance Compositor

  Phosphene

  May 2016 - May 2016

  Greater New York City Area
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  Digital Compositor

  Zoic Studios

  September 2015 - April 2016

  Greater New York City Area
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  Freelance Compositor

  Imaginary Forces

  August 2015 - September 2015

  Greater New York City Area
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  Freelance Compositor

  ShoulderHill Entertainment

  July 2015 - August 2015

  Greater New York City Area

  Digital paint, clean-plating, particle simulation, and compositing on 2 upcoming movies.
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  Freelance Editor

  Passion Pictures

  July 2015 - July 2015

  Greater New York City Area

  Assisted editing a pre-visualization of a promotional video for a high-end client.
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  Freelance Compositor

  Industrial Color

  May 2015 - June 2015

  Greater New York City Area
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  Digital Compositor

  Humble

  May 2015 - May 2015

  Greater New York City Area

  Worked on a 30-second commercial for Jersey Boys Broadway. Responsibilities included cleanup, digital paint, 2D lighting, particle integration, and compositing. See the spot here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIa2Y8LqMcs
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  Freelance Compositor

  Juniper Jones

  May 2015 - May 2015

  Greater New York City Area
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  Freelance Compositor

  The Molecule

  April 2015 - April 2015

  Greater New York City Area
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  Digital Compositor

  Industrial Color

  November 2014 - April 2015

  Greater New York City Area

  Collaborated with a team of CG artists to digitize the entire product line of a high-end cosmetics company, compositing photorealistic CG versions of each product maintaining consistency and preparing the comps for future manipulation. Aided in the process of establishing the pipeline in efforts to optimize the efficiency of the workflow whilst functioning as the liaison between art departments.
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  Freelance Compositor

  The Molecule

  September 2014 - November 2014

  Greater New York City Area

  Worked on The Giver, A Most Violent Year, Shang Ri La, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and Return to Sender. Was responsible for compositing, matte painting, frame by frame painting, clean-plating, set extensions, background replacements, element creation, rotoscoping, match-moving, and beauty work.
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  Freelance Compositor

  The Molecule

  June 2014 - July 2014

  Greater New York City Area

  Roto, paint, tracking, and compositing for Royal Pains and 2 movies.

• Freelance Compositor

  DIVE

  May 2014 - June 2014

  Greater New York City Area

  Power - Starz : Digital paint (frame by frame)
  The Leftovers - HBO : Roto, match-moving, paint, comp

• Owner/VFX Supervisor/Mo-Graph Artist/Audio Visualizer

  Transition VFX

  November 2012 - June 2014

  Transition VFX llc is my own company. We specialize in VFX, Motion Graphics and Audio Visualization, with an ear for music, an eye for detail and a desire to collaborate with our clients. We've recently worked with Savage VFX on House of Cards, Phospene FX on Boardwalk Empire, and the band 'Big Gigantic' on creating custom content for their unique large-scale LED system they perform with live on-tour.
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  Freelance Compositor

  321 Launch

  April 2014 - May 2014

  Greater New York City Area

  Designed and built backgrounds and comped pre-visualizations of commercials.
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  Lead Compositor

  Perception

  December 2013 - January 2014

  Greater New York City Area

  Responsible for look development and delivery of a large volume of composited shots for Captain America: The Winter Soldier in a timely fashion and with high quality standards. Oversight of elements created by a team of designers for the composited shots, with attention to sequential consistency. Helped create the pipeline and workflow with mindful attention to our clients required specifications. Built templates for many shots in various sequences. Comped and fine-tuned many of the final composites.
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  Freelance VFX Artist

  The-Artery

  November 2013 - November 2013

  Greater New York City Area

  Worked on a number of shots for a high-profile music video, rotoscoped for beauty work.
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  VFX Artist

  Sirk Productions

  November 2013 - November 2013

  Greater New York City Area

  Worked on a shot for a European commercial, recreated the foreground plate, rotoscoped characters, colored and comped various elements to match the previous shots from the sequence.
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  Freelance Compositor

  Phosphene

  October 2013 - October 2013

  Greater New York City Area

  Worked on a few shots for an episode of an HBO show. Tasks included but were not limited to rotoscoping, 2d animation, element recreation and dynamic cleanup work.
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  Intermediate Compositor

  Gener8 Media Corp

  June 2013 - August 2013

  Vancouver, British Columbia

  Performed tasks such as clean-plating, tracking/match-moving, matte extraction, color correction, paint fixes, rotoscoping and assembly of live action and 3D assets such as full scene projection on geometry, digital painting (frame by frame), compositing elements, grid-warping/corner-pinning, camera tracking/3D scene projection, keying, working with disparity maps and 3D scene geometry, recreating elements, precise grain and edge management, stereo-painting & stereoscopic compositing. I also helped mentor junior artists with intermediate level tasks and problem solving. Worked closely with Compositing Supervisor and/or Lead Compositor to determine best approach to complete each shot at a high-quality standard within budget. Ability to take on mid to high complexity shots.
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  Freelance stereoscopic compositor/paint/finaling artist

  Stereo D

  February 2013 - June 2013

  Burbank, CA

  My responsibilities included: Creating clean-plates, compositing elements, 2D tracking/match-moving, camera tracking/3D scene projection, color-correction, keying, rotoscoping, creating/modifying depth maps, extracting elements, recreating elements, stereo-painting & stereoscopic compositing all at very quick turn-around times. So far I've worked on GI Joe: Retaliation, Iron Man 3, Star Trek: Into Darkness and a couple others I can't name yet. This will be updated upon release of each movie.

• Compositor

  Savage VFX

  November 2012 - January 2013

  Greater Pittsburgh Area

  Worked on House of Cards directed by David Fincher. Primary job responsibilities included but were not limited to: keying, rotoscoping, cleaning out lens flares, rig removal, screen replacement, tracking and compositing.
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  Compositor / Stereo Compositor

  Digital Domain

  February 2011 - September 2012

  Tradition, Florida

  VFX Compositor/Stereoscopic Compositor
  I functioned as a compositor for the VFX department, working on high-profile jobs pushing the boundaries of our current standards and technologies. Some of the work I did is complex projection setups, layouts, compositing, keying, clean-plating, color-correcting, and element recreation. As a stereoscopic compositor for the stereo group, my responsibilities included but were not limited to:
  2D tracking/match-moving, camera tracking/3D scene projection, clean-plates, color-correction, custom keying, extracting elements, recreating elements, stereo-painting & compositing.

• Digital Artist / Layout / Compositor

  Sunfest 2012

  March 2012 - April 2012

  West Palm Beach, Florida Area

  Worked with production company Digital Domain Media Group and client, SunFest of Palm Beach County Inc. to formulate the vision and direction of the Sunfest 2012 30-second
  commercial. Collaborated with 4 digital artists, focused on 3D camera layout, created particles and effects helped comp the final shots of this commercial slot. Created and mixed audio. You can see the final spot here: www.vimeo.com/39777432

• Freelance retoucher

  Razorback Productions

  2011 - 2012

  Retouched photographs of fashion models and new cosmetic products for a couple high-end brands in a tight deadline at a professional quality level.
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  Stereoscopic Compositor

  Digital Domain

  February 2011 - October 2011

  Port St. Lucie, Florida

  Stereoscopic Compositor on Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon.
  Stereoscopic Compositor on The Smurfs.
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  Intern at Entertainment Technology Center

  Carnegie Mellon University

  2009 - 2010

  I was part of a team working on a cutting-edge interactive multi-media system called “The Bridge.” My job included design, critique, and implementation of interactive protocols and the creation of a special outer-space animation for a 6-screen video display system.