About

The compositor behind the shot.

I'm Hadi Abou Ghazale — a VFX compositor and associate VFX supervisor based in Paris, with 4+ years on features and series for Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+ and Paramount+.

I'm a Nuke expert focused on CG/live-action integration, clean-up, tracking, complex keying and beauty work, delivering to supervisor notes on tight schedules. My credits include John Wick: Chapter 4, Napoleon, Sinners, Toxic Town, The Witcher S3 and Yellowstone — and Macula, my VES-nominated Master's film.

Alongside traditional compositing I have deep working knowledge of AI-augmented pipelines — ComfyUI, Stable Diffusion, Runway, Nuke CopyCat and Beeble — integrating generative plates into broadcast and VFX work. With a growing creative-supervision portfolio, I think about the story the shot is serving, not just the technical fix.

Specialties

  • Keying & despill
  • CG integration
  • Set extensions
  • Matte painting comp
  • Deep compositing
  • Rotoscoping / paint
  • FX integration (smoke/fire/water)
  • Beauty / cleanup

Software

  • Foundry Nuke / NukeX
  • Nuke CopyCat (ML)Training / denoise
  • Mocha ProTracking
  • PhotoshopMatte / paint
  • ShotGrid (Shotgun)Production
  • Excel / PowerPointBidding / planning

Generative AI & pipeline innovation

  • ComfyUI · Stable DiffusionPlates / gen
  • Runway · Kling
    Seedance
    Gen video
  • BeebleAI relighting
  • Nano BananaGen imagery
  • Claude · GeminiWorkflow
  • Gen plates → VFX pipelineIntegration
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Hadi on a green screen
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Experience

2022 — Now

VFX Compositor & Associate VFX Supervisor · Light Visual Effects

Quick-turnaround VFX for Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Apple TV+: John Wick: Chapter 4, Napoleon, Sinners, Toxic Town, The Witcher S3, The Serpent Queen S2. Owned trailer/teaser shots for Batman: Arkham Shadow (Meta Quest) and the Lisa “Bad Angel” music video. High-end commercial compositing — GMC, FedEx, Tekken, Corum, AMI, CS5. Advanced Nuke: CG/live-action integration, clean-up, set extensions, complex tracking, multi-pass keying, beauty work.

Mar 2025

VFX Compositor (freelance, remote) · BeloFX

Compositing shots on the series Yellowstone (Paramount+).

2021

VFX Compositor · MPC Paris

Compositing on the series Around the World in 80 Days (BBC One).

2016 — 2019

Freelance Content Creator · Beirut, Lebanon

Sugar Rush · Eye Magic Productions · Barakunan Publishing · Different Productions · The Insult (2018 Academy Award nominee).

Awards & Selections

2023

Macula — Master’s short film

Nominee · VES (Visual Effects Society) 2023 · Nominee · PIDS Genie Awards 2023 · Honorable Mention · The Rookies Awards 2023.

2018

ABOVE — Bachelor’s film

Best Director · AltFF · Best Film · End of Days FF.

2021 — 23

The Rookies

Highly Commended · The Rookies 2023 · Excellence Award · The Rookies 2021.

Education

2019 — 2022

Master’s — Digital Filmmaking & VFX (RNCP7)

ArtFX School of Digital Art · France.

2013 — 2018

Bachelor’s — Audiovisual Studies

Université Saint-Joseph (USJ) · Beirut, Lebanon.

Languages

  • French
  • English
  • Arabic

Eligibility

French citizen — eligible to work across the European Union.

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