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Nathalie Comjean

Lead/Senior Compositor
Los Angeles,CA

Summary

Lead Compositor with many years of experience working in the Film and Television Industry. Passionate about the fast paced environment of VFX, with expert knowledge of Nuke and very good problem solving skills.

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Lead/Senior Compositor

CoSA VFX
01.2022 - Current
  • Establishing look and compositing hero shots, then kicking off the 2D team on how to add those effects into the rest of the sequence or show
  • Developing or expanding on bespoke tools in Nuke to help the 2D team with specific effects for a show
  • Working with the Comp and VFX Supervisors to develop strategies for the show, participating in daily reviews, marking up outsource materials and QC'ing shots before they are sent out
  • Helping junior artists and teaching them best practices and techniques they may not be aware of yet

Compositor

CoSA VFX
10.2021 - 12.2021
  • Delivering all my shots on time and to highest quality - checking for any technical issues and making sure everything matched continuity
  • Working closely with the Supervisors to address any notes
  • Taking directions from Comp Supervisors and Leads on how to add preset templates for certain effects

Lead Roto/Prep Artist and Compositor

Platige Image
01.2021 - 10.2021
  • Managing the Roto and Prep Department - assigning tasks, kicking off artists, QC'ing their work, giving notes and working with the VFX and Comp Supervisors to make sure everything is in order
  • Taking part in the hiring process and introducing new artists to our pipeline
  • Delivering my own compositing, roto and paint work on time and to the highest quality

Lead Roto/Prep Artist

Platige Image
09.2019 - 11.2019
  • QC'ing all the roto work
  • Working with the VFX and Comp Supervisors
  • Delivering my own roto and paint work

Roto/Prep Artist

Platige Image
03.2019 - 08.2019
  • Taking directions from the VFX Supervisor and working closely with the 2D team to make sure all the roto and paint was delivered on time and to highest quality

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Graphics

Kingston University
London, United Kingdom
09.2014 - 07.2017

Diploma - 3D Animation And Visual Effects

Vancouver Film School
Vancouver, Canada
10.2017 - 10.2018

Skills

  • Compositing 2D and 3D elements in Nuke
  • 2D and 3D Tracking in Nuke, Mocha Pro, SynthEyes, PFtrack and KeenTools
  • Compositing multi-pass CG elements
  • Camera Projections
  • Roto and Paint work
  • Look Development
  • Tool creation in Nuke - using TCL and Python
  • Deep Compositing
  • Scripting in Python

Software

NukeX and Nuke Studio

FTrack

Mocha Pro

Shotgrid

After Effects

Premiere Pro

Maya

PFTrack

Timeline

Lead/Senior Compositor

CoSA VFX
01.2022 - Current

Compositor

CoSA VFX
10.2021 - 12.2021

Lead Roto/Prep Artist and Compositor

Platige Image
01.2021 - 10.2021

Lead Roto/Prep Artist

Platige Image
09.2019 - 11.2019

Roto/Prep Artist

Platige Image
03.2019 - 08.2019

Diploma - 3D Animation And Visual Effects

Vancouver Film School
10.2017 - 10.2018

Bachelor of Science - Computer Graphics

Kingston University
09.2014 - 07.2017
Nathalie ComjeanLead/Senior Compositor