Ari Reisner Email & Phone Number

New York City Metropolitan Area

I started Transition VFX as a means to create multimedia across various platforms. Since it's inception, we've collaborated on projects ranging from Visual Effects for big-budget and indie Films, Episodic Shows and Commercials, as well as Motion Graphics, Audio Visualization for live performance and custom-craed visualizations for large-scale LED displays. Per project requirements, I have built and managed teams of various sizes and skill-sets, in order to deliver top-quality content on-time and on-budget.

London, England, Gb

Compositing and digital paint on a high profile commercial advertisement campaign.

New York, Us

Some of the projects worked on include: What We Do In the Shadows - Season 5, The Gilded Age - Season 2, and P-Valley. Completed tasks such as Clean-Plating (utilizing 2D and 3D techniques), Rotoscoping, Keying, Compositing (Live-action and CG elements), and 2D Particles and FX, etc.

New York, Ny, Us

Transition VFX worked as an independent visual effects vendor on Mike Meyers' new mini-series "The Pentaverate", forthcoming on Netflix, starting May 5th, 2022.

Los Angeles, California, Us

Duties performed included but were not limited to: Working closely with client-side VFX Supervisor and Producer, along with the Editorial and Production teams, to provide assistance with pre-viz, post-viz, concept design, and final composited shots.

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Lead talented teams of visual effects artists working on high profile episodic shows such as Fear the Walking Dead (season 6) and Power Book II: Ghost. Job Responsibilities:Created looks, templates and tools for artists to achieve congruent results. Aided the VFX Supervisor and Producer, provided guidance to artists and was generally of service in whatever ways were best needed for the team on a daily basis. Researched and compiled references necessary for the shots/sequences we were working on. Helped team transition to working remotely. Checked in with the team on a daily basis, both in groups and individually. Reviewed all shots for technical issues and integrity before sending to client. Gave notes on shots regarding technical and artistic direction. Composited and completed shots in efforts to meet deadline targets.

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

London, England, Gb

London, England, Gb

London, England, Gb

New York, Ny, Us

New York, New York, Us

Santa Monica, Ca, Us

Santa Monica, Ca, Us

Santa Monica, Ca, Us

New York, Ny, Us

New York, New York, Us

Lead a team of Nuke Compositors in cleanup, preparation and compositing of footage into various devices screens for a high-profile clients' upcoming promotional commercial.

New York, Ny, Us

London, Gb

Santa Monica, Ca, Us

Santa Monica, Ca, Us

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

New York, New York, Us

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Santa Monica, California, Us

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Santa Monica, Ca, Us

Santa Monica, California, Us

New York, Ny, Us

New York, New York, Us

London, Gb

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

New-York, Ny, Us

London, Gb

Santa Monica, Ca, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Culver City, California, Us

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

New York, New York, Us

Digital paint, clean-plating, particle simulation, and compositing on 2 upcoming movies.

London, England, Gb

Assisted editing a pre-visualization of a promotional video for a high-end client.

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Collaborated with a team of CG artists to digitize the entire product line of a high-end cosmetics company, compositing photorealistic CG versions of each product maintaining consistency and preparing the comps for future manipulation. Aided in the process of establishing the pipeline in efforts to optimize the efficiency of the workflow whilst functioning as the liaison between art departments.

Worked on a 30-second commercial for Jersey Boys Broadway. Responsibilities included cleanup, digital paint, 2D lighting, particle integration, and compositing. See the spot here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIa2Y8LqMcs

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Worked on The Giver, A Most Violent Year, Shang Ri La, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and Return to Sender. Was responsible for compositing, matte painting, frame by frame painting, clean-plating, set extensions, background replacements, element creation, rotoscoping, match-moving, and beauty work.

New York, Ny, Us

Roto, paint, tracking, and compositing for Royal Pains and 2 movies.

Power - Starz : Digital paint (frame by frame)The Leftovers - HBO : Roto, match-moving, paint, comp

New York, Ny, Us

Designed and built backgrounds and comped pre-visualizations of commercials.

Secaucus, New Jersey, Us

Responsible for look development and delivery of a large volume of composited shots for Captain America: The Winter Soldier in a timely fashion and with high quality standards. Oversight of elements created by a team of designers for the composited shots, with attention to sequential consistency. Helped create the pipeline and workflow with mindful attention to our clients required specifications. Built templates for many shots in various sequences. Comped and fine-tuned many of the final composites.

New-York, Ny, Us

Worked on a number of shots for a high-profile music video, rotoscoped for beauty work.

New York, New York, Us

Worked on a shot for a European commercial, recreated the foreground plate, rotoscoped characters, colored and comped various elements to match the previous shots from the sequence.

New York, Ny, Us

Worked on a few shots for an episode of an HBO show. Tasks included but were not limited to rotoscoping, 2d animation, element recreation and dynamic cleanup work.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Ca

Performed tasks such as clean-plating, tracking/match-moving, matte extraction, color correction, paint fixes, rotoscoping and assembly of live action and 3D assets such as full scene projection on geometry, digital painting (frame by frame), compositing elements, grid-warping/corner-pinning, camera tracking/3D scene projection, keying, working with disparity maps and 3D scene geometry, recreating elements, precise grain and edge management, stereo-painting & stereoscopic compositing. I also helped mentor junior artists with intermediate level tasks and problem solving. Worked closely with Compositing Supervisor and/or Lead Compositor to determine best approach to complete each shot at a high-quality standard within budget. Ability to take on mid to high complexity shots.

Burbank, Ca, Us

My responsibilities included: Creating clean-plates, compositing elements, 2D tracking/match-moving, camera tracking/3D scene projection, color-correction, keying, rotoscoping, creating/modifying depth maps, extracting elements, recreating elements, stereo-painting & stereoscopic compositing all at very quick turn-around times. So far I've worked on GI Joe: Retaliation, Iron Man 3, Star Trek: Into Darkness and a couple others I can't name yet. This will be updated upon release of each movie.

Worked on House of Cards directed by David Fincher. Primary job responsibilities included but were not limited to: keying, rotoscoping, cleaning out lens flares, rig removal, screen replacement, tracking and compositing.

VFX Compositor/Stereoscopic CompositorI functioned as a compositor for the VFX department, working on high-profile jobs pushing the boundaries of our current standards and technologies. Some of the work I did is complex projection setups, layouts, compositing, keying, clean-plating, color-correcting, and element recreation. As a stereoscopic compositor for the stereo group, my responsibilities included but were not limited to:2D tracking/match-moving, camera tracking/3D scene projection, clean-plates, color-correction, custom keying, extracting elements, recreating elements, stereo-painting & compositing.

Stereoscopic Compositor on Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon.Stereoscopic Compositor on The Smurfs.

Worked with production company Digital Domain Media Group and client, SunFest of Palm Beach County Inc. to formulate the vision and direction of the Sunfest 2012 30-secondcommercial. Collaborated with 4 digital artists, focused on 3D camera layout, created particles and effects helped comp the final shots of this commercial slot. Created and mixed audio. You can see the final spot here: www.vimeo.com/39777432

Retouched photographs of fashion models and new cosmetic products for a couple high-end brands in a tight deadline at a professional quality level.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

I was part of a team working on a cutting-edge interactive multi-media system called “The Bridge.” My job included design, critique, and implementation of interactive protocols and the creation of a special outer-space animation for a 6-screen video display system.

Certificate, Compositing Supervision

B.S., Visual Effects And Motion Graphics

High School Diploma, High School Diploma

Education record