Ali Kocar

Current

Compositor at Digital Kitchen

Past

Dynamic Media/After Effects Teacher at The School of Visual Arts
Compositor at Nola Pictures
Compositor at Superfad

Compositor at Shilo
Compositor/Animator at Transistor Studios
Compositor at Digital Kitchen
Compositor/Animator at Brand New School
Compositor at Metaphrenie GbR
Compositor at Humble
Animator/Compositor at Curious Pictures
Compositor, GE Sweetwater at BIg Film Design
Flame Artist at Charlex
Compositor, GE Sweetwater at Merge, LLC
Freelance Flame Artist at Click3x
Flame Artist Day Assist at The Mill
Compositor, MoviStar Phone at Superfad
Flame Artist at Manic
Freelance Compositor, "Nanny Diaries" at RhinoFX
Lead Compositor, Thom Brown Fashion at Dir. Anthony Goicolea (Sole Proprietorship)
Lead Compositor, Horney Toad Clothing at Merge, LLC
Staff Compositor at Rhinofx
Lead Compositor/Animator, Plastilina Mosh Music Video at Dir. Anne Paas (Sole Proprietorship)
Staff Compositor/Animator at Eyeball NYC

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Education

School of Visual Arts

Recommended

5 people have recommended Ali

Connections

212 connections

Industry

Motion Pictures and Film

Websites

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Ali Kocar’s Summary

Ali Kocar’s Specialties:

Software: After Effects, Inferno/Flame, Fusion

Ali Kocar’s Experience

Compositor

Digital Kitchen

(Privately Held; Broadcast Media industry)

September 2009 — Present (3 months)

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Dynamic Media/After Effects Teacher

The School of Visual Arts

(Motion Pictures and Film industry)

2006 — September 2009 (3 years )
Compositor

Nola Pictures

(Privately Held; Motion Pictures and Film industry)

July 2009 — August 2009 (2 months)

Green screen keying and comping for Burlington Coat Factory commercial.
Compositor

Superfad

(Privately Held; Design industry)

June 2009 — July 2009 (2 months)

Leading the CG composites for Sci Fi Spot.
Compositor

Shilo

(Privately Held; Animation industry)

May 2009 — May 2009 (1 month)

Composited CG layer passes for Cell South Phone commercial in which the phone eats applications in the style of a modern day pacman.
Compositor/Animator

Transistor Studios

(Privately Held; Broadcast Media industry)

February 2009 — May 2009 (4 months)

Propel Water Website: Composited CG liquid elements together to create running liquid animals, water bottles exploding from below the surface, and other water animations playing throughout website. http://www.nowpropelled.com/
Compositor

Digital Kitchen

(Privately Held; Broadcast Media industry)

March 2009 — March 2009 (1 month)

Fruit 2Day Add, Live action fruit cleanup, CG Liquid Composite.
Play Film Festival: Add lighting flares and dream effect to interior shot of Brass worker's room.
Compositor/Animator

Brand New School

(Privately Held; Broadcast Media industry)

September 2008 — January 2009 (5 months)

Compositor/Animator for Ritz crackers billboard in Walgreens screen in Times Square.
Compositor

Metaphrenie GbR

(Broadcast Media industry)

June 2008 — August 2008 (3 months)

Composited CG layers for fully CG spot depicting dragons forming the Olympic Rings. Advertisement for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Al Jazeera Network.

http://metaphrenie.com/
Compositor

Humble

(Broadcast Media industry)

May 2008 — June 2008 (2 months)

Keyed and comped high-speed HD live-action foregrounds with CG backgrounds for the ESPY awards.

http://humble.tv
Animator/Compositor

Curious Pictures

(Privately Held; Animation industry)

April 2008 — April 2008 (1 month)

After Effects animation and cleanup for AT&T phone spot, dir Stefan Nadelman
Compositor, GE Sweetwater

BIg Film Design

(Motion Pictures and Film industry)

February 2008 — April 2008 (3 months)

Sex and the City (The Movie)
Burn After Reading
Temps for Doubt
Flame Artist

Charlex

(Privately Held; Animation industry)

September 2007 — February 2008 (6 months)

Verizon, Verizon, Verizon....
Compositor, GE Sweetwater

Merge, LLC

(Motion Pictures and Film industry)

December 2007 — December 2007 (1 month)

Morphing still photos over time-lapsed stills.
Software: After Effects, Photoshop
Freelance Flame Artist

Click3x

(Motion Pictures and Film industry)

August 2007 — August 2007 (1 month)
Flame Artist Day Assist

The Mill

(Privately Held; Motion Pictures and Film industry)

June 2007 — June 2007 (1 month)

Cleanup compositing and roto for JC Pennies, Zombies.
Compositor, MoviStar Phone

Superfad

(Privately Held; Design industry)

June 2007 — June 2007 (1 month)
Flame Artist

Manic

(Privately Held; Media Production industry)

May 2007 — May 2007 (1 month)
Freelance Compositor, "Nanny Diaries"

RhinoFX

(Motion Pictures and Film industry)

November 2006 — February 2007 (4 months)

Digital Fusion compositor on feature film, "The Nanny Diaries".
Lead Compositor, Thom Brown Fashion
Dir. Anthony Goicolea (Sole Proprietorship)

(Sole Proprietorship; Motion Pictures and Film industry)

September 2006 — September 2006 (1 month)
Lead Compositor, Horney Toad Clothing

Merge, LLC

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Motion Pictures and Film industry)

June 2006 — September 2006 (4 months)

Software: After Effects, Photoshop
Staff Compositor

Rhinofx

(Broadcast Media industry)

October 2004 — September 2006 (2 years )

Inferno Assist, Inferno Nights
Lead Compositor/Animator, Plastilina Mosh Music Video
Dir. Anne Paas (Sole Proprietorship)

(Sole Proprietorship; Motion Pictures and Film industry)

May 2004 — November 2004 (7 months)

Composited 30-40 shorts for Oxidados music video. Shot entirely on green screen.
Staff Compositor/Animator

Eyeball NYC

(Broadcast Media industry)

March 2004 — August 2004 (6 months)

After Effects compositing and animation.