Mercedes Paulino

Mercedes Paulino

Compositor, Designer

Senior Digital Compositor / 16 yrs

Los Angeles

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Digital Compositor

True Spirit (2023)

Magical FX Compositor

Hocus Pocus 2 (2022)

Senior Compositor

The Orville (2022)

Senior Compositor

Outer Range (2022)

Visualization Artist

Hawkeye (2021)

Senior Compositor

Made for Love (2021)

Senior Compositor

For All Mankind (2019)

Senior Compositor

Dickinson (2019)

Digital Compositor

Lucy in the Sky (2019)

Senior Compositor

Euphoria (2019)

Senior Compositor

Russian Doll (2019)

Senior Compositor

The Orville (2017)

Senior Compositor

Crunch Time (2016)

Senior Compositor

Albedo Absolute (2016)

Senior Compositor

The Librarians (2014)

Stereo Conversion Pipeline Development

Harlock: Space Pirate (2014)

Digital Compositor

Salem (2014)

Senior Compositor

The Affair (2013)

2D Artist / Lead 3D Artist

The Originals (2013)

Visual Effects Artist

Ultraman Saga (2012)

Visual Effects Artist

Revolution (2012)

Senior Stereo Compositor

The Smurfs (2011)

Senior Stereo Compositor

Green Lantern (2011)

Visual Effects Artist

Fringe (2008)

*** Please message me for link and password to my 2020 reel, as it is password-encrypted to protect client interests. The reel that I can post on Zerply is quite old. ***

I'm a Senior Nuke Compositor with 12 years of industry experience – mostly in Los Angeles (and a bit of Tokyo). I'm an expert in Nuke, and am also proficient in Maya and some Houdini. (I'm currently trying to pick up Unreal, but that's a different story!)

Since the start of 2019, I've worked on HBO's Euphoria, Orville Season 2, a Nike commercial, Senior comp at the Lil' Miquela Project, American Horror Story Season 10, tricking out space ships for Orville Season 3, and a Muse concert video. In 2020, I started out working on several SuperBowl ads at the Mill, then went on to Technicolor to work on Picard Season 1 & Westworld Season 3 - not to mention a smattering of very secret projects.

As far as rate is concerned, my typical rate depends on the nature of the project (commercials always being higher!). However, I understand things are different during Covid-19 for a lot of shops, and I am willing to work with you to reach a number with which we are both happy.
Work History
  • Chief Executive Artist • Senior Compositor • Compositing Supervisor

    Merckworks

    February 2010 - Present
    Los Angeles

    Freelance visual effects, pipeline development, graphic design and book publishing.

  • Compositor

    Moonshot Pictures

    December 2024 - December 2024
  • Senior Compositor

    Imaginary Forces

    April 2024 - April 2024
  • Compositor

    BeGrizzlee

    November 2023 - November 2023
    Playa Vista, CA

    Product commercial

  • Senior Compositor

    Scholar

    May 2023 - June 2023
    Los Angeles, California, United States · Remote
  • Lead Compositor

    Shapes & Forms

    March 2023 - March 2023
    Los Angeles, California, United States · Remote

    • US Space Force!

  • Senior Compositor

    Imaginary Forces

    February 2023 - March 2023
    Los Angeles, California, United States · Remote
  • Senior Compositor

    AFX Creative

    December 2022 - February 2023
    Los Angeles, California, United States · Remote

    • CG Cars + CG Cats!

  • Senior Compositor

    Assembly

    November 2022 - December 2022
    New York, New York, United States · Remote

    • Mrs. Davis

  • Senior Compositor

    Scholar

    August 2022 - November 2022
    Los Angeles

    • Super awesome crew! Peloton and Dovato.

  • Senior Compositor

    Imaginary Forces

    July 2022 - August 2022
    Los Angeles, California, United States

    • Magic compositing + delivery on Hocus Pocus 2

  • Compositor

    ALT VFX

    June 2022 - June 2022
    Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

    • More CG dolphins on True Spirit. Been a dolphin kinda year.

  • Compositor

    Chicken Bone FX Studios

    May 2022 - June 2022
    Los Angeles, California, United States

    • For All Mankind

  • Senior Compositor

    BREAK + ENTER

    November 2021 - February 2022
    New York, United States

    • CG/particle compositing on "Outer Range"
    • Russian Doll 2 - really nice paint work on the cistern sequence
    • The Pentaverate
    • Dexter - set extensions

  • Senior Compositor

    Powerhouse VFX

    August 2021 - September 2021
    New York, United States

    * Wild set extension work on Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Season 4

  • Senior Compositor

    Molecule VFX

    July 2021 - August 2021
    New York, United States

    • Dickinson

  • Senior Compositor

    ATKPLN

    June 2021 - July 2021
    Dallas, Texas, United States

    • Made a sweet spacetime portal using Nuke particles for a Cap'n Crunch ad.

  • Unreal Fellowship for Virtual Production

    Epic Games

    October 2020 - December 2020
  • Digital Compositor

    Technicolor

    February 2020 - May 2020
    The Universe
  • Compositor

    The Mill

    January 2020 - February 2020
    Los Angeles

    Verizon, Samsung & SodaStream SuperBowl Ads

  • Compositor

    FuseFX

    October 2019 - December 2019
    Greater Los Angeles Area
  • Compositor

    Brud Inc

    August 2019 - October 2019
    Los Angeles, California, United States
  • Senior Compositor

    Brud

    July 2019 - October 2019
    Greater Los Angeles Area

    • Lil' Miquela - cg head replacements.

  • Compositor

    Brud Inc

    July 2019 - August 2019
    Los Angeles, California, United States
  • Senior Compositor

    Eight VFX

    April 2019 - May 2019
    Santa Monica, California

    • Nike - set extensions, motion graphics

  • Senior Compositor

    VanDyke VFX

    January 2019 - April 2019
    Greater Los Angeles Area

    • Euphoria - adding fog using Nuke particles, paint work
    • Lucy in the Sky
    • The Orville

  • Senior Compositor

    Steelhead

    March 2017 - December 2018
    Greater Los Angeles Area

    • So much VW

  • Compositor

    Framestore

    October 2018 - October 2018
    Greater Los Angeles Area
  • Compositor

    Deutsch/Steelhead

    September 2018 - October 2018
    Los Angeles, California, US
  • Compositor

    Ntropic

    September 2018 - September 2018
    Los Angeles
  • Compositor

    Dilated Pixels

    June 2018 - June 2018
    Los Angeles, California, US
  • Compositor

    The Molecule

    January 2018 - March 2018
  • Compositor

    The Molecule

    January 2018 - January 2018
    Hollywood, CA
  • Compositor

    MPC

    December 2017 - December 2017
  • Compositor

    MPC

    October 2017 - December 2017
    Los Angeles, CA
  • Compositor

    MPC

    September 2017 - September 2017
  • Deutsch Inc

    April 2017 - June 2017
  • Senior Compositor

    Deutsch

    March 2016 - June 2017
    Greater Los Angeles Area
  • Compositor

    Deutsch Inc

    February 2017 - March 2017
  • Compositor

    Shade VFX

    October 2016 - January 2017
    Santa Monica, CA

    "Westworld" matte painting integrations, 3d tracking, epic paint

  • Senior Compositor

    Electric Entertainment

    June 2015 - January 2016
    Portland
  • Senior Compositor

    ELECTRIC ENTERTAINMENT, INC.

    June 2015 - December 2015
    Portland, Oregon Area

    Senior Compositor, "The Librarians" Season 2.

  • Staff Nuke Compositor

    FuseFX

    November 2013 - December 2014

    • American Horror Story
    • Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
    • Halt and Catch Fire
    • Criminal Minds
    * CSI
    * SVU
    • Salem
    • Hell on Wheels
    • Glee

  • Compositor

    FuseFX

    October 2013 - December 2014
    Burbank, CA
  • Compositor

    Crazy Horse Effects

    March 2013 - July 2013
    Venice, California

    Projects:
    • Black Sails

  • Digital Compositor

    Shutterpunch

    March 2012 - April 2013
    Culver City, California

    Projects:
    • Southland
    • Breaking In
    • The Goldbergs

  • Compositor

    CoSA VFX

    August 2012 - December 2012
    Burbank, CA

    Projects:
    • Fringe
    • Revolution
    • Person of Interest

  • Compositor

    Cosa

    August 2012 - December 2012
    Los Angeles, CA
  • Nuke Instructor/Stereo Pipeline Consultant

    Q-TEC, Inc.

    September 2011 - December 2011

    Teaching people who are far smarter than myself how to do Nuke stereo and multipass compositing in Tokyo. Also consulting on stereo pipeline development.
    · Space Pirate Captain Harlock (2013)

  • Visual Effects Artist

    Graphinica Tokyo

    September 2011 - December 2011

    Conceptualizing and creating visual effects from the ground-up, using Maya, MentalRay, 3ds Max and VRay to render photoreal CG elements, and compositing them for live-action integration. Also creating and compositing 2D elements for Japanese "anime" television serials, using After Effects, Particular, Trapcode and beyond.
    Films:
    • Ultraman Saga (2012)
    Anime:
    • Penguin Drum
    • Thermae

  • Senior Stereo Compositor

    Legend 3D VR VFX

    April 2011 - June 2011
    Burbank

    Finishing stereo shots and fixing displacement errors with 2D compositing and paint techniques in Nuke.
    Films:
    • The Smurfs (2011)
    • The Green Lantern (2011)

  • Compositor

    Entity FX

    October 2010 - April 2011
    Los Angeles
  • Stereo Compositor and Digital Painter

    HTV Illuminate Hollywood

    December 2010 - February 2011

    Films:
    • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1 (2011)

  • Animator/Compositor

    Shadedbox Animations

    November 2009 - February 2010

    Character animation.

  • Compositor

    In-Three

    October 2008 - April 2009
    Los Angeles, CA
  • Rotoscoping/Compositing

    SMTV

    2009 - 2009
  • Director of Electronic Media and Communications

    Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS)

    February 2004 - April 2008
    Sarasota, Florida, United States

    Responsible for publishing the MAPS journal, website design, collating IRBs and book publishing.

    Books published:
    • LSD Psychotherapy by Stanislav Grof
    • Ketamine: Dreams and Realities by Karl Janssen (2nd edition)
    • The Secret Chief by Myron Stolaroff

Education
  • Computer Science, Electronic Music

    New College of Florida

    November 1899 - ?
  • Computer Science Engineering

    Middlesex University, London

    ? - ?
  • Visual Effects

    Academy of Entertainment Technology at SMC

    ? - ?