Chris O'Connell

Work History

• Adjunct Instructor

  Springfield Technical Community College

  August 2024 - August 2025

• Compositor

  Rappid VFX

  October 2024 - October 2024

• Compositor

  Fiction City, LLC

  May 2024 - July 2024
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  Remote Compositor

  Agora Studio

  February 2023 - February 2023
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  Remote Compositor

  Mousetrappe

  September 2022 - January 2023

  Burbank, California, US

• Compositor

  Identity Creative

  August 2022 - August 2022
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  Compositor

  Opsis

  October 2021 - January 2022

  

• VFX Artist

  Rappid

  January 2021 - June 2021

• Compositor

  Rappid

  March 2020 - April 2020

  Los Angeles, California, United States

• VFX Artist

  Rappid

  February 2020 - March 2020

  Los Angeles, California, United States
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  Freelance Compositor

  FuseFX

  August 2019 - November 2019

  Greater Los Angeles Area

  Nuke and Mocha Pro artist doing CG integration, digital blood, digital fire, flyswatting/dustbusting, and other compositing work on a number of television productions such as American Horror Story, 9-1-1, and Mayans M.C.

• Compositor

  Rappid VFX

  August 2017 - July 2019

  Greater Los Angeles Area

  Dedicated 2D visual effects artist for seasons eight and nine of Hawaii Five-0 based onsite in the Hawaii Five-0/Macgyver/Magnum P.I. post-production offices at Paramount Studios in Hollywood California.

  

• vr compositor

  Radiant Images

  June 2017 - July 2017
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  nuke compositor

  Furious FX

  February 2017 - April 2017

  Greater Los Angeles Area

  
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  Freelance Visual Effects Artist

  Dakota Pictures

  September 2016 - February 2017

  Greater Los Angeles Area

  Mocha, Photoshop, and After Effects artist doing matte painting, compositing, and motion graphics work on productions for Fox television and multiple premium streaming services.
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  VFX Artist

  Dilated Pixels

  November 2016 - December 2016
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  Animator

  The Asylum

  August 2016 - September 2016

  Greater Los Angeles Area
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  Compositing Supervisor

  Exceptional Minds

  June 2016 - August 2016

  Greater Los Angeles Area

  Titles artist on The Shack and Compositing Supervisor on Marvel's Doctor Strange.

  
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  Freelance Compositor

  FuseFX

  June 2016 - June 2016

  Greater Los Angeles Area

  Nuke and Mocha Pro artist working short term on an original production for Netflix.

• Visual Effects Supervisor

  Harvest Aid

  May 2016 - June 2016
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  Compositor

  Ingenuity Studios

  March 2016 - April 2016

  Greater Los Angeles Area

  Nuke, Mocha, After Effects and Photoshop artist for several television productions, including but not limited to Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Blackish, Modern Family, Powers and The Goldbergs.
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  Nuke Artist

  Deluxe Entertainment

  April 2011 - June 2015

  Greater Los Angeles Area

  2D compositor and color team artist for 'The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water' (Paramount - 2015) and stereoscopic post-production artist for many other films.

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
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  Rotoscope Artist

  Stereo D

  September 2010 - March 2011

  Greater Los Angeles Area

  
  Post-production roto artist for the following motion pictures: Thor (Marvel - 2011), The Green Hornet (Sony - 2011), Jackass 3D (MTV - 2010), Gulliver's Travels (Fox - 2010)
  

  

  

  

• Media Manager

  Gulf Management Group

  February 2010 - September 2010

  Orlando, Florida Area

  
  Co-founder serving as broker's assistant and hands-on decision-maker for most corporate matters related to finance, record-keeping, web development, graphic design, branding and advertising.
  

• Graphic Designer

  Maui Mailer

  July 2007 - January 2008

  Digitally created (and often helped conceptualize) print advertisements for a bi-monthly publication that had an estimated readership of approximately 140,000 people.

• Lecturer of Multimedia

  Raffles Education Corporation

  September 2006 - July 2007

  Instruction of Bachelor Degree and Advanced Diploma courses for both the Interactive Media and Visual Communication curricula at Raffles Design Institute: Singapore. Monitored and enforced student attendance and punctuality. Assisted with school promotional activities as proposed by the School, both in and out of normal working hours, sometimes serving as Interactive Media Program Director by proxy. Counseled individual students and revised courses as needed.

• Lecturer of CIT (Graphics, Web and Multimedia courses)

  Elms College

  August 2003 - August 2006

  Instruction of Bachelor Degree Information Technology courses, mainly focusing in the areas of computer graphics, front-end website design, multimedia development and general computer competency. Other responsibilities included: development of seven Bachelors Degree courses, principal assistance in computer science major/minor curriculum revision, periodic course revision, academic advising, service on hiring committee for adjunct technology instructors, service on committee for student counseling, supervision of student workers, and co-supervisory participation of select campus functions.

• Computer Graphics Consultant

  Pioneer Training, Inc.

  April 2001 - August 2006

  Instruct and advise on numerous topics including, but not limited to, photo-manipulation, 2d graphics concepts, basic web animation and graphics-based website design; both in seminar and one-to-one frameworks.

• Adjunct Instructor of Fine Art

  American InterContinental University

  August 2003 - July 2004

  Instructed eight sections of an accelerated Bachelor Degree Fine Arts History course in the distance-learning program known as AIU Online - Also assisted in the revision of said course and consulted with students remotely outside of scheduled lecture times

• Professional Tutor

  Springfield Technical Community College

  September 1997 - January 1999

  Assisted students and Humanities faculty in the use and maintenance of Macintosh computers; including word processing, image editing, digital art creation, multimedia, internet browsing, and OCR scanning. Also served as teaching assistant for a number of Associates Degree courses.