Nicolas Derory

Nicolas Derory

Senior Digital Compositor / 10 yrs

Lyon, France

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Compositing Artist

Transatlantic (2023)

Compositing Artist

Murder Mystery 2 (2023)

Digital Compositor / 2D FX Artist

Spirit Riding Free (2021)

Digital Compositor

1917 (2020)

Digital Compositor

Cats (2019)

Digital Compositor

Lady and the Tramp (2019)

Digital Compositor

His Dark Materials (2019)

Digital Compositor

Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019)

Digital Compositor

Avengers: Endgame (2019)

Digital Compositor

Mowgli (2018)

Digital Compositor

Christopher Robin (2018)

Digital Compositor

Thor: Ragnarok (2017)

Digital Compositor

Ghost in the Shell (2017)

Digital Compositor

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)

Digital Compositor

X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)

Work History
  • Digital Compositor

    MPC

    September 2022 - Present
    Remote
  • Director - Editor - Colorist - Digital Artist

    Freelance

    June 2012 - Present

    - Directed and edited commercial and promotional films.
    - Clients : Philippe Tournaire, S.T. Dupont, 2Saints, Vetclic

  • VFX Compositor

    Mathematic Studio

    March 2021 - July 2022

    Advertising :
    - Logitech : Defy Logic
    - League of Legends
    - Coca-Cola : Awakening
    - Discord
    - JO Paris 2024
    - Dead by Daylight - Resident Evil
    - Call of Duty Warzone

    Clip :
    Pinknoise - Sky Cry
    The Chainsmokers - High

  • VFX Compositor / 2DFX Artist (remote)

    Jellyfish Pictures

    November 2020 - March 2021
  • VFX Compositor

    Mikros Image

    January 2020 - October 2020
    Paris, Île-de-France, France

    Il était une fois à Monaco (TV)
    Maroni saison 2 (TV)
    Comédie Humaine
    Gagarine
    30 jours max
    Un si grand soleil (TV)
    Possession (TV)

  • Director - VFX - editor - colorist

    Personnal project : "The Recon", post-apocalyptic short-film

    June 2013 - March 2020

    - Personnal project set up in order to improve digital cinema skills (camera, light, post-production workflow, editing...) and to learn visual effects, VFX pipeline, compositing.

  • VFX Compositor

    MPC

    October 2019 - December 2019
    London, Royaume-Uni

    1917
    Cats

  • VFX Compositor

    Framestore

    July 2019 - September 2019
    London, Royaume-Uni

    Lady and the Tramp
    His dark materials (TV)

  • VFX Compositor

    Double Negative

    March 2019 - June 2019
    London, Royaume-Uni

    Fast and Furious : Hobbs and Shaw
    Mermaid 2
    Avengers : Endgame

  • VFX Compositor

    Framestore

    June 2017 - July 2018
    London, United Kingdom

    Mowgli
    Christopher Robin
    Thor : Ragnarok

  • VFX Compositor

    MPC

    January 2016 - December 2016
    Région de Montréal, Canada

    Ghost in the Shell
    Fantastic Beasts and where to find them
    X-Men : Apocalypse

  • Director - camera operator - editor - compositing

    Philippe Tournaire SARL

    June 2012 - December 2012
    Paris / Montbrison, France

    - Produced and directed the promotional video Paris Forever by Tournaire highlighting the inspiration of the creator and the collection Paris Forever.

  • Production assistant - editor

    C Productions Chromatiques

    January 2012 - May 2012
    Région de Lyon, France

    - Followed the development of the documentary “La dernière des abeilles” (financing, contracts, artistic file). Prepared the shooting sessions (planning, authorizations, image rights). Assisted the director on the shoots (prepared and adjusted the camera, the lights, the micros, shot some shoots) and transferred the rushes on the bench of editing.
    - Assisted the editor on the post-production of the documentary “Ce que nous avons peut-être perdu” (searched for images, followed the sound-mixing, subtitled the documentary).
    - Promoted the documentary (created and edited a trailer, created an animated DVD menu and a dvd cover, submitted the documentary in festivals).
    - Promoted cartoon movies (created animated DVD menus and DVD covers, submitted cartoon movies in festivals).
    - Duplicated and encoded tapes for TV broadcasting. Transcoded video files for web and DVD.

  • Production assistant - editor

    PureCam production audiovisuelle

    April 2011 - July 2011
    Saint-Etienne, Loire, France

    - Edited corporate films.
    - Assisted the producer/director on the shoots (prepared and adjusted the camera, the lights, the micros).
    - Developed a project of TV broadcasting in public transport (weather, traffic information, local advertising...), created a video model and prepared a file for a presentation.

  • Director - camera operator - editor

    Philippe Tournaire SARL

    June 2010 - July 2010
    Montbrison, Loire, France

    - Directed and edited six videos showing the creation of the jewels.

  • Photographer - computer graphic designer - webmaster

    Philippe Tournaire SARL

    April 2009 - February 2010
    Montbrison, Loire, France

    - Took and retouched photos of the jewelry.
    - Designed a catalog highlighting the brand and the collections.
    - Designed leaflets.
    - Launched and managed the third version of the corporate web site and the online shop.
    - Managed the online shop, updated the web site, monitored web traffic.
    - SEO.
    - E-mailing.

Education
  • Master (Master's degree) in Audiovisual and Multimedia Production - Mu

    Université Jean Moulin (Lyon III)

    2010 - 2012
  • Licence (Bachelor's degree) in Information Communication

    Université Jean Monnet Saint-Etienne

    2009 - 2010
  • Licence professionnelle (Bachelor's degree) in ICT animator (web commu

    Université Jean Monnet Saint-Etienne

    2008 - 2009
  • DUT (Higher National Diploma) in Electronic and computer engineering

    Université Jean Monnet Saint-Etienne

    2005 - 2007