VISUAL EFFECTS DEPARTMENT: Crew Roles and Description

Visual Effects Supervisor
The visual effects supervisor is in charge of the visual effects department.

Compositor
A compositor is a visual effects artist responsible for compositing images from different sources such as video, film, computer generated 3-D imagery, 2-D animations, matte paintings and text.

Roto/Paint Artist
Manually creates mattes for use in compositing. May also paint visual information out of a scene, such removing wires and rigs, logos and scratches.

Matte Painter
​These artists draw/paint entire sets or extend portions of an existing set.

Interested in more departments? Here are they:

CAMERA DEPARTMENT
KEY CREATIVE DEPARTMENT
LOCATION DEPARTMENT
SCRIPT DEPARTMENT
SOUND DEPARTMENT
​PRODUCTION CREW
POST PRODUCTION
INTERACTIVE MEDIA

Let us know if we missed out on any roles!