Christopher Grandel

Work History

• Artist In Charge

  CgDigitalFx Inc.

  2019 - Present
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  Senior Nuke Compositor

  FuseFX

  January 2020 - April 2020

  Los Angeles, California, United States

  Work on Verious Tv projects as needed.

• Senior Nuke Compositor for "The Glorias" motion picture

  CgDigitalFx Inc.

  June 2019 - January 2020

  Work with procuction on previze of shots, acquisition of plates and elements for composite.
  Work involved green screen composite, syntheyes camera tracking, cg integration and match color.
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  Senior Nuke Compositor

  Temprimental Films, INC

  September 2019 - December 2019

  Los Angeles, California, United States

  Green screen compositer for the film Antebellum.
  3d motion tracking in Syntheyes for Tv monitor inserts and production equipment removal.
  
• 

  Senior Nuke Compositor

  Zoic Studios

  February 2019 - April 2019

  Los Angeles, California, United States

  Worked on verious TV productions as needed.
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  Senior Nuke Compositor

  FuseFX

  August 2018 - November 2018

  Los Angeles, California, United States

  Worked on the following Tv productions.
  American Horror Story, 911, Midnight Texas, Sneaky Peat, The Politician, FBI, Good Doctor
  
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  Senior Nuke Compositor

  Zoic Studios

  September 2015 - August 2018

  Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

  Worked both motion picture and Tv series which included -
  Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, The Flash, Ice, Keanu, Keeping up with the Jones, Legends of Tomorrow, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Taken, Wayward Pines, When We Rise, The Hundred

  

  
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  Senior Nuke Compositor

  Marvel Studios

  2012 - 2015

  Los Angeles, California, United States

  In-house Nuke, After Effects Compositor for
  Ant Man, Guardians of the Galaxy, Marvel One-Shot: Agent Carter, IronMan 3
  

• Digital Nuke VFX Artist

  Arcane Inc.

  January 2005 - 2015

  Los Angeles, California, United States

  Director of Operation Freelance Visual Effects Artist
  Coordinating and supervision of artist working on all projects brought through Arcane.
  Freelance artist working with Nuke and After Effects on feature films.
  Projects include - Cell, Massacre Lake, Under the Bed, The Remnants, The Hours, Scavengers, Water for Elephants, New Line Cinema Documentary, Mortuary, Penney Dreadful, Dark Streets, In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale, Rescue Dawn

• Director Of Operations / Freelance Visual Effect Ar

  Arcane Inc.

  2005 - 2015

  Los Angeles, California, United States

  Coordinating and supervision of artist working on all projects brought through Arcane.
  Freelance artist working with Combustin, Nuke and After Effects on feature films.
  Projects include - Cell, Massacre Lake, Under the Bed, The Remnants, The Hours, Scavengers, Water for Elephants, New Line Cinema Documentary, Mortuary, Penney Dreadful, Dark Streets, In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale, Rescue Dawn
  
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  Senior After Effects, Nuke Compositor

  Big Boss Creative

  2013 - 2014

  Los Angeles, California, United States

  Indepentent film Ninja Apocalypse

• Digital Compositor

  Universal Network Television - Caprica In-House VFX

  2009 - 2010

  Los Angeles, California, United States

  Digital Compositor on 18 episodes

• Freelance Flame Artist

  Howard Anderson Company

  2001 - 2005

  Los Angeles, California, United States

  Flame and Combustion Artist on feature films and trailers. Trailer work included conforming trailer to video reference and client sessions.
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  Freelance Visual Effects Artist

  Digiscope

  1999 - 2000

  Los Angeles, California, United States

  Freelance artist working on the Inferno, Combustion and Domino in composites and restoration.
  

• Coordinator / Visual Effect Artist / Film I/O and Colorist.

  Cinema Research Corp

  1998 - 1999

  Los Angeles, California, United States

  Responsible for work flow and client interaction for Digital Department. Staff artist in film I/O, included lineup of original negative for scanning. Digital artist on Domino