Making separate pieces agree
A plate, a render and a light, made to behave as one photographed thing. Deep compositing, CG and environment integration, keying, cleanup, camera projection — in Nuke.
Digital Compositor
Nicolò Terranova
Ten years making shots work — feature film and premium episodic, from first render pass to final.
- 10Years
- 44Productions
Selected productions
Full credits on IMDb
The work
Making shots work, first pass to final.
Photoreal compositing
Production workflow
Shot ownership, through review to delivery
Shots carried to broadcast and theatrical standard — and a sequence that still holds together when several artists have been through it. Lead-level on episodic.
Emerging workflows
AI where it earns its place.
New models arrive every few weeks and most of them do not survive contact with a real shot. Keeping up is part of the job: reading what ships, testing it against work I already know the answer to, and separating what is usable in production now from what is interesting in a year.
Right now that means diffusion-based relighting, inpainting and digital matte painting, conditioned on reference so the result matches the plate instead of approximating it. Built in ComfyUI.
It gets the test any comp gets: does it survive review, at delivery resolution, on the schedule. Where it does not, it does not ship.
The reel is private — most of the work is under non-disclosure, so access is by individual code.