Jonathan Podwil

Jonathan Podwil

Matte Painter/Nuke Comp

Senior Matte Painter / Mid-level Digital Compositor / 17 yrs

New York City, NY, United States

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Digital Matte Painter

Cabrini (2024)

Visual Effects

The Last Thing Mary Saw (2022)

Visual Effects Artist

Bully (2021)

Visual Effects Supervisor

Tesla (2020)

Digital Compositor

Love Life (2020)

Visual Effects

Joy (2019)

Digital Matte Painter

Pennyworth (2019)

Digital Matte Painter

Russian Doll (2019)

Digital Matte Painter

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)

Visual Effects Supervisor

Humor Me (2018)

Co-Executive Producer

The Edge of Humanity (2017)

Visual Effects Supervisor

Marjorie Prime (2017)

Digital Compositor

The Get Down (2016)

Visual Effects Artist

Uncaged (2016)

Digital Compositor

Billions (2016)

Digital Compositor

Marco Polo: One Hundred Eyes (2015)

Digital Matte Painter

Kristy (2015)

Visual Effects Supervisor

Experimenter (2015)

Matte Painter

Re-Kill (2015)

Digital Compositor

Blindspot (2015)

Digital Compositor

Show Me A Hero (2015)

Digital Compositor

True Story (2015)

Digital Compositor

Chloe and Theo (2015)

Digital Compositor

Popolo (2015)

Freelance Compositor

Marco Polo (2014)

Digital Compositor

Before I Disappear (2014)

Digital Compositor

Madam Secretary (2014)

Visual Effects Artist

The Longest Week (2014)

Digital Matte Painter

Veronica Mars (2014)

compositor

Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)

Digital Compositor

Jamie Marks Is Dead (2014)

Nuke Compositor

I Origins (2014)

Digital Matte Painter / Compositor

The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

Digital Matte Painter

Getaway (2013)

Digital Compositor

The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete (2013)

Digital Matte Painter

Banshee (2013)

Digital Compositor

The Mortician (2013)

Matte Painter

Life of Pi (2012)

Visual Effects

Teens Like Phil (2012)

Digital Compositor

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2012)

Digital Compositor

Tower Heist (2011)

Additional Visual Effects Artist

Our Idiot Brother (2011)

Digital Compositor

Don't Let Him In (2011)

Digital Effects

Errand (2011)

Digital Compositor

Turbine (2011)

Digital Compositor

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010)

Digital Compositor And Matte Painter

Blue Bloods (2010)

Rotoscope Artist

Did You Hear About the Morgans? (2009)

Digital Compositor

Royal Pains (2009)

Opening Title Composite

Big Love (2006)

Matte Painter

Rescue Me (2004)

Digital Effects

Long Black Lashes

NYC based digital matte painter/ compositor using Nuke/NukeX, Photoshop, and After Effects. I am also a classically trained painter and I bring a nuanced eye for color, light, and composition to my work. On or off site in NYC, or remotely.
Work History

  • Matte Painter

    The Mill

    August 2022 - September 2022
    New York

  • Matte Painter

    Break+Enter VFX

    April 2022 - June 2022

  • Matte Painter

    Break+Enter VFX

    July 2021 - September 2021

  • Digital Matte Painter

    Break + Enter VFX

    July 2021 - August 2021

    two Netflix original series

  • Digital Matte Painter

    Powerhouse VFX

    November 2019 - December 2020
    New York

    Various Episodic TV shows

  • Visual Effects Supervisor

    Self-Emplyed

    December 2019 - June 2020

    Feature film "The Last Thing Mary Saw" directed by Edoardo Vitiletti

  • Visual Effects Supervisor

    Self-Emplyed

    February 2019 - December 2019

    Feature film "TESLA" directed by Michael Almereyda

  • Digital Matte Painter

    East Side Effects

    December 2017 - April 2018
    New York

    Coen Brothers "Ballad of Buster Scruggs) Look Dev/DMP (Nuke)/ Nuke Comp

  • VFX lead

    Independent

    August 2016 - October 2016

  • Digital Compositor

    Weinstein Company

    October 2015 - April 2016
    New York

    Netflix "Marco Polo Season 2"
    In house VFX artist

  • VFX artist

    Marco Polo Season 2

    November 2015 - March 2016

    In house digital compositor/DMP. Delivered 130+ VFX shots for the second season of Netflix' original series.

  • Freelance Compositor + Matte Painter

    Zoic Studios

    August 2015 - September 2015

    Episodics "Banshee"​ and "Blind Spot"

  • Freelance nuke compositor

    Phosphene

    June 2015 - June 2015

    HBO miniseries "Show Me a Hero"

  • Freelance digital matte painter

    Framestore

    March 2015 - May 2015

    TVC ATT/U-verse "Where will you be"

  • Freelance digital matte painter

    Zoic Studios

    March 2015 - April 2015

    digital matte painting on TV pilots "Quantico" and "Frankenstein"

  • freelance matte painter

    Mythic Digital US

    January 2015 - February 2015

  • Freelance Compositor

    Mr. X

    August 2014 - August 2014

    Netflix original series "Marco Polo"; Feature film "True Story"

  • Freelance Compositor

    Perception

    February 2014 - March 2014

  • freelance digital matte painter - compositor

    Method Studios

    May 2013 - July 2013

  • freelance digital matte painter

    1stAveMachine

    April 2012 - May 2012

  • freelance nuke compositor

    Nathan Love

    February 2012 - March 2012

  • freelance nuke compositor/matte painter

    Psyop

    December 2011 - December 2011

  • freelance compositor

    Berlin Cameron

    2011 - 2011

  • compositor

    1stAveMachine

    2011 - 2011

  • freelance nuke compositor - steroscopic

    undisclosed publicly held motion picture studio (T

    September 2010 - October 2010

    Occlusion compositing for a stereoscopic conversion.

  • freelance retoucher & storyboard artist

    Showtime Networks Inc.

    2008 - 2010

    key art retouching and photo compositing. Storyboard artist for on-air promotions department.

  • freelance retoucher

    Digitas

    1998 - 2008

  • freelance retoucher

    digital color concepts

    2002 - 2005

  • Photoshop instructor

    Noble Desktop

    1997 - 2002
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Education

  • Malmö Konstskola Forum (Sweden)

    1992 - 1993

  • Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts

    1990 - 1992

  • University of Pennsylvania

    1984 - 1988

  • Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

    ? - ?