Compositing/Matte Painting Lead

What does it mean to become a Compositing/Matte Painting Lead?

• Lead and mentor the Compositing and Matte Painting team in a fast-paced, collaborative production environment.
• Define the artistic and technical direction for compositing and matte painting work, reviewing team deliverables to ensure visual quality, consistency, and production readiness.
• Oversee the integration of CG and live-action elements, including compositing, color grading, matte extraction, cleanup, and digital matte painting to achieve seamless final images.
• Plan, assign, and monitor team workload to ensure shots are delivered on schedule while meeting creative and technical requirements.
• Collaborate closely with Supervisors and cross-functional departments to resolve creative and technical challenges throughout the production pipeline.
• Ensure consistency in color, lighting, perspective, and overall visual continuity across shots and sequences.
• Drive continuous improvements to compositing workflows, pipeline efficiency, tools, and team knowledge through R&D and knowledge sharing.
• Demonstrate strong leadership, communication, artistic judgment, and problem-solving skills while performing effectively under production deadlines.

• Minimum 5–6 years of professional experience in compositing and/or digital matte painting for VFX, animation, or film productions.
• Expert proficiency in Nuke, with extensive experience integrating CG and live-action elements into high-quality final shots.
• Strong understanding of compositing fundamentals, including color management, color grading, matte extraction, keying, roto, cleanup, and image integration.
• Excellent artistic eye for composition, lighting, perspective, color, scale, and visual continuity.
• Proven experience creating or supervising high-quality digital matte paintings and environment extensions.
• Solid understanding of VFX production pipelines and collaboration across CG, Lighting, FX, Tracking, and Editorial departments.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills with the ability to develop efficient creative and technical solutions.
• Experience with scripting, gizmo development, or workflow automation (e.g., Python or BlinkScript) is a plus.
• Experience leading, mentoring, or reviewing the work of compositors or matte painters in a production environment is a plus.