Jacqueline Cooper

Jacqueline Cooper

Compositor at Industrial Light and Magic

Lead Digital Compositor / 22 yrs

Los Angeles, CA

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Senior Compositor / Lookdev Artist

Shi Shen Ling (2021)

Senior Compositor

Skyfire (2021)

Digital Compositor

Crazy Alien (2019)

Senior Compositor

Pan (2015)

Senior Compositor

Jurassic World (2015)

Visual Effects Artist

The Expendables 3 (2014)

Digital Compositor

Iron Man 3 (2013)

Digital Artist

Jack the Giant Slayer (2013)

Senior Compositor

Wrath of the Titans (2012)

Digital Compositor

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)

Digital Compositor

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)

Senior Compositor

Harry Potter and Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)

Compositor

TRON: Legacy (2010)

Staff Compositor

Inferno: The Making of 'The Expendables' (2010)

Digital Compositor

Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010)

Freelance Artist

Serenity (2005)

Visual Effects Artist

Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo (2005)

Digital Compositor

Warm Springs (2005)

Freelance Artist

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)

Freelance Artist

Hellboy (2004)

Freelance Artist

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

It has been fifteen years, and I feel grateful to have had such a wealth of different projects under my belt. I have spent almost two years working on various VR projects, and worked on films such as Jurassic World at Industrial Light and Magic in San Francisco and Pan at Scanline VFX in Los Angeles. Prior to that I worked on Jack and the Giant Slayer, Ironman 3, Harry Potter, and Tron Legacy.

Before my time abroad I was working as a staff lead compositor at Digital Domain in their commercial division. I have worked at companies such as Element FX, Radium, Larry Levinson Productions, Creo, Stan Winston, and Zoic, and my projects include a slew of feature films such as Serenity, Hellboy, The Big Bounce, The Missing, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Warm Springs, and Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. I have also worked on commercials for companies such as Progressive, Gatorade, Macdonald’s, Burger King, Lexus, and Hess, as well as on high-end music videos for artists like Bon Jovi, Justin Timberlake, Jewel, Tony Braxton, Lisa Marie Presley, Santana, and KC and Jojo.

Specialties: Proficient Computer Applications: Nuke, Digital Fusion, After Effects, Photoshop, Boujou, Unity, Unreal

Additional applications: Maya, Illustrator,
Work History

  • CEO and Co-Founder

    CG Empowers

    April 2023 - Present
    United States · Remote

    Diversity non-profit for training women and people of diverse bgs cutting edge CG techniques.

  • Head of Community

    CG Pro

    January 2022 - February 2023

  • Senior Compositor

    Tau Films

    August 2018 - August 2020
    Greater Los Angeles Area

    Currently doing comp work and look development on a film

  • Senior Compositor

    Tau Films

    December 2019 - January 2020
    Remote

  • Compositor

    T・ジョイ京都

    March 2019 - November 2019
    Remote

  • Freelance

    Big Block

    November 2015 - 2016

    Senior Compositor

  • Senior Compositor

    ScanlineVFX

    April 2015 - June 2015

  • Digital Compositor

    Industrial Light & Magic

    February 2015 - April 2015
    San Francisco Bay Area

  • Freelance Digital Compositor

    Digital Domain, Zoic Studios

    February 2006 - April 2015

    Serenity, Sarah Conner Chronicles, Pushing Daisies, HP commercial

  • Compositing Supervisor

    Mirada Studios

    April 2014 - May 2014

    Doing work, keeping chill....

  • Senior Compositor

    MPC

    2011 - May 2014

    Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2, Sherlock Holmes 2, Wrath of the Titans,, Fiat Commercial Featuring Godzilla

  • Digital Compositor

    Digital Domain, Zoic Studios

    September 2012 - April 2014
    Venice, CA

    Jack and the Giant Slayer
    Iron Man 3
    A super-secret project....don't you want to know now?

  • Freelance Compositor

    Zoic Studios

    April 2013 - 2014
    Culver City

    A variety of different projects but most recently a toshiba commercial that was extended across 6 episodes of about 10 minutes each.

  • Compositor

    MPC

    January 2011 - June 2012

    Compositor working on the last of the Harry Potter movies.

  • Staff Compositor

    Digital Domain

    2008 - November 2010

  • Freelance Artist

    Zoic Studios

    2004 - 2007

  • Compositor

    Larry Levinson Productions

    March 2005 - January 2006

    Five compositors working on 800 cg shots in 3 months. Need I say more?

  • Junior Flame Artist

    Radium

    January 2004 - March 2005

    Combustion artist learning the Flame, got do work on some nice projects where I got to precomposite, composite, paint, roto etc.

  • Digital Compositor

    LLP Digital

    2004 - 2005

  • Compositor

    Custom Film Effects

    May 2003 - December 2003

    Digital Fusion Compositor

  • Technical Assistant

    Public Access Channel

    April 1996 - December 2000

    Project Highlights
    Lincoln commercial: 2d Compositing Lead
    Tron Legacy: Nuke compositor and stereoscopic technician
    Ratchet and Clank commercial: nuke compositor
    Old Spice Livewire: Digital Compositing Lead
    Gatorade's Moon: Digital Compositing Lead
    Chevy Malibu's Quiet: Digital Compositing Lead
    Kenmore Commercial: Digital Compositing
    BMW Road commercial: Digital Compositing

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Education

  • BA in Film and Digital Media; Legal Studies

    University of California at

    1998 - 2002

  • Film and Digital Media

    University of California, Santa Cruz

    1998 - 2002