1. Blade Runner 2049 · DNEG
  2. The Boys · DNEG
  3. Venom · DNEG
  4. Deadpool 2 · DNEG

Visual effects · Compositing · Since 2007

Jeremy Meltzer

Senior compositor on feature films and series since 2007, at studios including DNEG, MPC, Sony Pictures Imageworks, Barnstorm VFX and CoSA VFX.

Practice
Compositing, look development
Credits
49 feature films and series
Member
Visual Effects Society
Based
Atlanta, Georgia

Selected credits

Film and television

  • Blade Runner 20492017 · DNEG
  • The Boys2019 · DNEG
  • Shōgun2024 · Barnstorm
  • Deadpool 22018 · DNEG
  • Venom2018 · DNEG
  • Men in Black: International2019 · DNEG
  • One Piece2023 · Barnstorm
  • Stuart Fails to Save the Universe2026 · CoSA VFX
  • Life of Pi2012 · Rhythm & Hues
  • X-Men: Days of Future Past2014 · Digital Domain
  • Hobbs & Shaw2019 · DNEG
  • Black Panther: Wakanda Forever2022 · Barnstorm
  • Star Trek: Strange New Worlds2023 · Barnstorm
  • Man of Steel2013 · MPC
  • Karate Kid: Legends2025 · Crafty Apes
  • Pennyworth2020 · CoSA VFX
  • Suicide Squad2016 · Imageworks
  • Ted Lasso2023 · Barnstorm

Selected work

Frames from shots Jeremy worked on

K at his apartment window, silhouetted against giant sign letters and a foggy city, from Blade Runner 2049.
A crashed spinner glows amber in the surf at night as a figure crawls through wet sand, from Blade Runner 2049.
A spinner flies low over black water through fog and rain, from Blade Runner 2049.

Blade Runner 2049

2017 · DNEG · Compositor

Shots in the sea wall sequence and K’s apartment.

Homelander’s eyes glow red inside an airliner cabin, from The Boys.
An airliner cockpit with burning, melted controls and cloud beyond the windscreen, from The Boys.
Homelander and Queen Maeve among frightened passengers in the airliner cabin, from The Boys.

The Boys

2019 · DNEG · Compositor

Shots in the season one airplane sequence.

Venom 2018 · DNEG · Compositor
Deadpool stands in a concrete doorway with city towers behind him, from Deadpool 2.
Deadpool 2 2018 · DNEG · Compositor
A figure dissolves into red and blue particles as an energy beam crosses a night street, from Men in Black: International.
Men in Black: International 2019 · DNEG · Compositor
Sanji looks out at the Baratie, a ship-shaped floating restaurant in a busy harbour, from One Piece.
One Piece 2023 · Barnstorm VFX · Senior compositor

Most recent Stuart Fails to Save the Universe (HBO Max, 2026) · CoSA VFX Official trailer

Award-winning productions

Productions Jeremy worked on include two Academy Award winners for Best Visual Effects and an Emmy winner for Outstanding Special Visual Effects.

Life of Pi 2012

Academy Award for Best Visual Effects, 2013

Jeremy: Compositing TD at Rhythm & Hues

Blade Runner 2049 2017

Academy Award for Best Visual Effects and BAFTA for Special Visual Effects, 2018

Jeremy: Compositor at DNEG

Shōgun 2024

Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Visual Effects in a Season or a Movie, 2024

Jeremy: Senior compositor at Barnstorm VFX

Selected breakdowns

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Where a shot becomes one image.

Compositing is the last step of visual effects. Live-action plates, CG renders, matte paintings and simulations are combined into a single frame and matched for lens, light, colour, grain and motion until nothing gives the seams away. Jeremy has done that work since 2007, often leading sequences and developing their look.

Final shot: the twins erupt in red particle energy on a night street. Grey CG render of the twins and their particle simulation over the street.

Men in Black: International 2019 · DNEG

The twins’ particle fight. CG layers from DNEG’s published breakdown of this shot.

Final shot: a 1960s London street with a gasholder skyline, cloud and wartime posters. Original plate: a backlot street at night with a lighting rig and blank walls.

Pennyworth 2020 · CoSA VFX

Night set extension: sky and gasholder, rooflines, period posters and doorway, rig removal.

Final shot: Superman flies past brick storefronts through smoke. Untextured grey CG render of Superman and storefronts over a transparency checkerboard.

Man of Steel 2013 · MPC

From Jeremy’s earlier compositing reel.

Career

2007 — 2026

In production since 2007.

Nearly two decades of feature film and television work, from Life of Pi to Stuart Fails to Save the Universe.

  1. Early features and stereo conversion
  2. Life of Pi 2012 · Rhythm & Hues
  3. Man of Steel 2013 · MPC
  4. X-Men: Days of Future Past 2014 · Digital Domain
  5. Suicide Squad 2016 · Sony Pictures Imageworks
  6. Blade Runner 2049 2017 · DNEG
  7. Deadpool 2 2018 · DNEG
  8. Venom 2018 · DNEG
  9. The Boys 2019 · DNEG
  10. Pennyworth 2020 · CoSA VFX
  11. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever 2022 · Barnstorm VFX
  12. One Piece 2023 · Barnstorm VFX
  13. Shōgun 2024 · Barnstorm VFX
  14. Karate Kid: Legends 2025 · Crafty Apes
  15. Stuart Fails to Save the Universe 2026 · CoSA VFX
Studios
DNEG · MPC · Sony Pictures Imageworks · Digital Domain · Rhythm & Hues · Scanline VFX · Image Engine · Zoic Studios · Barnstorm VFX · CoSA VFX · Crafty Apes
Roles
Senior compositor · Sequence lead · Look development · Compositing TD
Full history
All 49 credits, with dates and roles

About

Biography

Jeremy Meltzer is a senior visual effects compositor. Since 2007 he has worked on feature films and series in Los Angeles, Vancouver and Atlanta, at studios including Rhythm & Hues, MPC, Digital Domain, Sony Pictures Imageworks and DNEG, and more recently Barnstorm VFX, Crafty Apes and CoSA VFX — often as a sequence lead and look development artist. His credits include Life of Pi, Blade Runner 2049, The Boys, Shōgun and, most recently, Stuart Fails to Save the Universe.

Alongside production he has been working in reality capture: photogrammetry, LiDAR and Gaussian splatting. He studied film at Emerson College, is a member of the Visual Effects Society, and is based in Atlanta.

Based
Atlanta, Georgia
Membership
Visual Effects Society
Education
Emerson CollegeBachelor of Visual Media Arts, film concentration, 2007
Elsewhere
LinkedIn, IMDb, Vimeo

Jeremy is not only one of those very seasoned seniors that you can throw any curveballs at, he is also a team player … I have been lucky to be Jeremy’s producer in multiple shows and studios, and he still impresses me every single time.

Jose De La Puente, producer (LinkedIn recommendation)

Contact

Atlanta, Georgia

mr.jlmeltzer@gmail.com

Archive

Older compositing reel, with shots from Man of Steel, 300: Rise of an Empire and Life of Pi and others. 2:34