Visual Effects & Compositing Studio
Hotel Lobby
VFX
A one-artist studio working in the space between plate and pixel — clean-up, integration, and the invisible finishing work that keeps an audience inside the story instead of admiring the trick.
The Directory
A selection of film and television projects.
Sixteen years in the lobby between what was shot and what gets seen.
Hotel Lobby VFX is the studio of Nick Crist, a visual effects artist and compositor whose credits span prestige television, awards-season features, and studio comedy alike. The work is rarely the kind an audience notices — a sky replaced, a rig erased, a city extended a block further than it really goes — which is exactly the point.
Every project moves through the same small room: a plate comes in, a problem gets solved, and the shot leaves looking like it was never touched at all.
In-House
What the room is set up to do, from on-set through final delivery.
Compositing
Multi-pass CG integration, greenscreen keying, and paint work that holds up on a big screen.
Clean-Up & Removal
Rig, wire, and marker removal; set extensions; continuity fixes that never announce themselves.
CG Integration
Lighting and matching for CG elements dropped into live-action plates, lensed to feel native.
Finishing
Color-aware delivery across ACES/OCIO pipelines, built to survive the DI without surprises.