Christopher Grandel                                                                                                              BFA University of Michigan - 1986

Senior Nuke Compositor                                                                                               MFA San Diego State University - 1998




EXPERIENCE




Fuse FX 2018 Senior Nuke Compositor


American Horror Story, 911, Midnight Texas, Sneaky Peat, The Politician, FBI, Good Doctor


Zoic BC (2015-2018) Senior Nuke Compositor


Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, The Flash, Ice, Keanu, Keeping up with the Jones, Legends of Tomorrow, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Taken, Wayward Pines, When We Rise, The Hundred


Arcane, Inc.  (2005-2015)

Director of Operation

Freelance Visual Effects Artist


Coordinating and supervision of artist working on all projects brought through Arcane.

Freelance artist working with Nuke and After Effects on feature films. 

Projects include - Cell, Massacre Lake, Under the Bed, The Remnants, The Hours, Scavengers, Water for Elephants, New Line Cinema Documentary, Mortuary, Penney Dreadful, Dark Streets, In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale, Rescue Dawn


Marvel (2012-2015) In-house Nuke, After Effects Compositor


Ant Man, Guardians of the Galaxy, Marvel One-Shot: Agent Carter, IronMan 3


Big Boss (Ninja Apocalypse - 2013-2014) After Effects, Nuke Compositor


Caprica  (TV series – 2009/2010)

Digital Compositor on 18 episodes


Howard Anderson Company  (2001-2005) Freelance Visual Effects Artist


Freelance artist working with Flame and Combustion on feature films and trailers. Trailer work included conforming work to video reference and client sessions.


VFXpc Freelance Visual Effects Artist


Freelance artist working with Shake on blue screen composites.


Digiscope (1999) Freelance Visual Effects Artist


Freelance artist working on the Inferno, Combustion and Domino in composites and restoration.


CRC Digital (1998) Digital Coordinator / Visual Effects Artist / film I/O and Colorist


Responsible for work flow and client interaction for Digital Department

Staff artist in film I/O witch include lineup of original negative for scanning.

Digital artist on Domino


Digital Magic  (1996) Freelance Visual Effects Artist


Freelance artist working on Quantel’s Henry and Domino in composites and restoration.



Christopher Grandel

CGrandel@socal.rr.com

818-398-3125