Senior Compositor - ILM London

Senior Compositor - ILM London Job ID:
Location: London, United Kingdom
Business: Industrial Light & Magic
Date posted: 2月. 14, 2025
Job Summary:

The Senior Compositor combines live-action and computer-generated elements into visual effects shots that realise the vision and creative direction of the client and Visual Effects Supervisor. The Senior Compositor is ultimately responsible for the aesthetic integrity and technical quality of the final image delivered to the client.

What You'll Do

• Together with the Compositing Supervisor and Visual Effects Supervisor, evaluate the creative and technical approach for assigned shots.
• Perform all tasks associated with the compositing process with minimal supervision, including layering of elements, matte extraction, tracking, and colour grading on difficult shots.
• Actively maintain the overall look, colour balance, and quality for assigned shots and sequences to create uniformity in all finished work.
• Consistently deliver excellent results with minimal supervision and good time management.
• Work proactively with other senior members of the team and across departments.
• Understand and embody the company's and the department's values of collaboration, efficiency, and problem-solving.
• Anticipate technical challenges on shots and can plan and test solutions to find the most effective, aesthetic, and technically sound result.

What We're Looking For

• Demonstrating resilience and efficiency in meeting time-sensitive goals.
• Taking ownership of own work while taking on board ideas and suggestions.
• Effective communicator with great interpersonal skills.
• Encouraging and empowering fellow artists.
• Acting as a point of contact for other artists and disciplines.
• Being aware of the wider show needs.
• Extensive experience with Nuke.
• Strong aesthetic skills in judging photo-realism and colour.
• Keen sense of composition, colour, and design.
• Familiarity with using Linux systems.
• Experience in a similar level position.

As part of your application please submit a demo reel, shot breakdown, or equivalent showcasing your work. A current resume is required.

This role is Hybrid, which means the employee will be required to work a minimum of 2 days on-site per week at a Company designated location, and occasionally from home.

About ILM:

Founded in 1975 by George Lucas, ILM is the leading effects facility in the world, serving the motion picture, commercial production, and attraction industries. ILM has created visual effects for over 325 feature films and has played a key role in seven of the top 10 worldwide box-office hits of all time and has contributed to 25 of the top 50. ILM has set the standard for visual effects, creating some of the most stunning images in the history of film. At the forefront of the digital revolution, the company continues to break new ground in visual effects, VR, AR, and Immersive Cinema.

About The Walt Disney Company:

The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading diversified international family entertainment and media enterprise that includes three core business segments: Disney Entertainment, ESPN, and Disney Experiences. From humble beginnings as a cartoon studio in the 1920s to its preeminent name in the entertainment industry today, Disney proudly continues its legacy of creating world-class stories and experiences for every member of the family. Disney's stories, characters, and experiences reach consumers and guests from every corner of the globe.

This position is with ILM (UK) Ltd., which is part of a business we call Industrial Light & Magic.

ILM (UK) Ltd. is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, colour, religion or belief, sex, nationality, ethnic or national origin, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, disability or pregnancy or maternity.