Sébastien Pincin

Lead and Sr Artist Compositor VFX

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

About

After 14 years in the visual effects industry, fueled by a passion for bringing the imaginary to life through image composition and the art of detail, my growing interest in management has enabled me to position myself as a support and referent for my teams. I contribute to the continuity of know-how and ensure a pleasant, professional working environment. With a solid technical background, including template creation and Nuke script automation with Python, I facilitate the creative and artistic aspects of projects. This allows for efficiency in project delivery and management while maintaining production goals and meeting customers' qualitative expectations.

Experience

  • Sr Artist Compositor at Industrial Light & Magic
    Feb 2025 - Present · 1 yr 5 mos

    - The Mandalorian and Grogu - (2026) by Jon Favreau - Anaconda - (2025) by Tom Gormican - Superman - (2025) by James Gunn • Workflow Automation: I architect advanced Nuke scripts and Python tools to maximize production efficiency. • Visual Integration: I apply a meticulous eye for light and color to achieve seamless, high-end photographic realism. • Production Strategy: I balance elite artistic excellence with a strict commitment to budget and deadlines. • Advanced Compositing: I lead the execution of the most complex multi-layered CG and environmental shots. • Sequence Consistency: I develop standardized templates to ensure a unified visual look across entire projects. • Technical Leadership: I act as a mentor and referent, ensuring the team maintains peak professional standards.

  • MPC (Montréal, Québec, Canada)
    • Lead Compositor
      Mar 2022 - Jan 2024 · 1 yr 11 mos

      - Snow White - (2025) by Marc Webb - Mufasa - The Lion King (2024) by Barry Jenkins. - Transformers Rise of the Beasts (2023) by Steven Caple Jr. Lead Compositor • Utilize artistic and technical skills for digital compositing tasks (rotoscoping, keying, removals, matte painting integration, 3D elements, and FX) to create high-quality images that meet client requirements. • Lead a team of Compositors by providing guidance, technical advice, creative solutions, and constructive feedback to ensure quality work is delivered on time. • Adhere to production schedules and pipeline, keep skills up-to-date, learn new techniques, and contribute creatively and technically to enhance project quality and productivity.

    • Key-Artist Compositor
      Nov 2021 - Mar 2022 · 5 mos

      - Transformers Rise of the Beasts (2023) by Steven Caple Jr. - BARDO False chronicle of a handful of trusth (2022) by Alejandro G. Iñárritu - NOPE (2022) by Jordan Peele - Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers (2022) by Akiva Schaffer - Sonic the hedgehog 2 by Jeff Fowler

  • Sr Artist Compositor at Hybride Technologies
    Jun 2021 - Oct 2021 · 5 mos

    - Star Wars The book of Boba Fett (2021) Senior Compositor • Worked on Ep 1 & 2 • In charge of 15 Key shots, approved by the client. •. Integration of a nice creature and beautiful environments.

  • Framestore (Contract Full-time · 3 yrs 6 mos)
    • Sr Artist Compositor
      Dec 2017 - May 2021 · 3 yrs 6 mos

      - Tom and Jerry (2021) by Tim Story Senior compositor • Assist two leads compositors 
• Work to validate about ten reference shots and integrate cartoon characters and photorealistic CG elements, of about thirty shots on 6 different sequences
 Adjust lighting and light orientation
Improve interaction with the background 
Create 2D cartoon animations
 - Project Power (2020) by Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman Compositor • Key shot validation for a sequence
 • Animate and add photorealistic environment extensions in the rain
 Contribute to the integration of characters on a green screen 
 Improve final renderings from collaborator scripts
 - Mulan (2020) by Niki Caro Senior compositor • Assist a lead on auto-comp management for a sequence 
• Mentoring a new employee
Validate key shots for a sequence
 Responsible for a majority of retime shots
 Keying and integration of characters on green screen
 Add photorealistic background
 - Army of the dead (2020) by Zack Snyder Senior roto-paint artist 
• Paint out rigs and wires and also actor
 • Create an out-of-frame image extension
 - Artemis Fowl (2019) by Kenneth Branagh Compositor • Creation of environments: integration of a character in a snowy landscape on the quays of a Siberian industrial port 
• Building a 3D environment in Nuke from projection and allowing a slow motion transition between two plates
 • Designing particle processing for the entire project and creating tools for beauty processing for a sequence 
Integrate photo-realistic set extensions and characters on green screen 
 Work on the optimization of stereoscopic scripts

    • Digital compositor
      Dec 2017 - Jan 2020 · 2 yrs 2 mos

      The Aeronauts (2019) by Tom Harper- 5 weeks Compositor • Finalize one shoot and optimize gizmo to export the breakdown elements
 • Improve final renderings from collaborator scripts
 Dumbo (2019) by Tim Burton Compositor • Set up of stereoscopy scripts 

 Captain Marvel (2019) by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck Compositor • Keying character on green screen and improve final renderings from collaborator scripts
 Set up of stereoscopic scripts
 Contribute to the creation of breakdown elements Pokémon Detective Pikachu (2019) by Rob Letterman Compositor • Set up of 3D elements
 • Discussion on the issues of the shoots
 Mary Poppins Returns (2018) by Rob Marshall Compositor • Assisting a lead compositor on the management of a sequence's auto-comp
 • Work of color correction, light direction, interaction and animation on cartoon characters and elements 
Integrate characters on a green screen in cartoon environments
 Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018) by David Yates Compositor • Integrate the Niffler creature and these interactions on the jacket
 • Compositor Assistant: Creation of a dmp to allow a connection of a sequence shot
 Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle (2018) by Andy Serkis Compositor • Integrate Shere Khan and a hyena and other CG elements 
 • Create and add background environnement and 2D elements
Set up of stereoscopy scripts

  • Vfx Supervisor and Digital compositor at Self-employed
    Mar 2019 - Mar 2019 · 1 mo

    short drama Entre Deux by Alexis Alexis Guerchovitch Vfx Supervisor • Cooperation and agreement on a common working methodology with production and post-production • Recommendation on video file formats and compression • shooting test of smoke Compositor • Matchmove • Paint out • add smoke