I'm Hadi Abou Ghazale, a filmmaker and VFX compositor based in Paris.
It started with sci-fi shorts shot with friends and late nights teaching myself After Effects. For my bachelor's film I spent three months learning the VFX to pull off asteroids and a spaceship, and that's where it became a craft.
At ArtFX I directed Macula and learned what it means to lead a team, creatively and technically. At Light Visual Effects I composited countless projects (John Wick 4, Napoleon, The Witcher and Toxic Town among them) and supervised the VFX on the feature Horizonte, which won Best Visual Effects at the 2026 Macondo Awards.
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
SeedanceGen video - BeebleAI relighting
- Nano BananaGen imagery
Just for fun · not pro work
Rough, amateur clips of me messing around and exploring VFX, long before I did it for a living.
Nominee · VES 2023