VFX compositing direction

Use this skill to make composite shots feel photographed together, not stacked together. Treat compositing as shot integration across color, motion, geometry, light, lens, material contact, atmosphere, artifact repair, and delivery handoff.

Do not use this skill as a substitute for legal clearance, colorist judgement, an on-set VFX supervisor, or a compositor operating a specific node graph. Use it to brief, plan, supervise, and review provider-independent compositing work.

Evidence posture

Documented facts below come from professional documentation and standards sources listed at the end. Tool-specific documentation facts were verified on 2026-07-10 and may change.

Empirical observations are repeatable checks an agent can perform by reviewing frames, scopes, mattes, tracks, and before/after renders.

Production heuristics are practical rules of thumb. They are not universal laws; override them when shot evidence, client direction, or a facility spec requires a different approach.

The compositing target

A good composite satisfies four contracts: