Compositor • Animator • Art Director
Compositing Reel — Jess Idlehart, Lead Compositor, Motion Designeer, & Art Director
This reel contains shots I have composited, including:
• Disenchantment (2023), TV Series, Netflix - Compositor
• Pinky Malinky (2019), TV Series, Nickelodeon - Lead Compositor
• Carmen Sandiego (2019), TV Series, Netflix - Compositor
• Age of Sail (2018), Short Film, Dir. John Kahrs - Compositor
• He Named Me Malala (2015), Feature Documentary - Compositor
• We Lost Our Human (2023), TV Special, Netflix - Comp Technical Director
• CAKE (2020), TV Series, FX and Hulu - Designer, Animator, Compositor
• I’m On the List (2015), Short, VH1 - Designer, Animator, Compositor
• Making After Midnight (2025), Online Series, Youtube - Designer, Animator, Compositor
IT head compositing breakdown - We Lost Our Human (Netflix, 2023):
This brief video gives a peek at how I designed and documented the compositing technique for IT’s translucent, glitchy hologram FX, combining 2D Harmony animation with layered Fusion effects.
At first I designed the FX to be software-agnostic, ensuring our vendor team could reproduce the look without unessicarilly relying on 3rd-party plugins or overscoping the pipeline. In the end we developed macros to speed up this shading process.