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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