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Hi. I am Jesse, a VFX artist living & working in Los Angeles. I have experience with film & TV VFX, compositing, greenscreen supervision, matchmoving, broadcast design, DVD menu design, title packages and a number of other skills related to animation and design.
All of this started in advertising. I studied art and film at a small New England college, and I are a graduate with a BA in fine art and an AS in graphic design.
What Can You Do? Design stuff. Move stuff around on screen. Make things shine, match, blink or blur. Composite stuff that is green or blue onto stuff that isn’t (with clean edges!). Track stuff that is moving all over the place into other stuff. Generally, make stuff look good.
What Have You Done? Extensive design and production work in feature film, motion graphics and broadcast design.
Feature Films
- “Edge of Darkness” 2010, Digiscope (Senior artist, VFX, compositing, tracking, roto)
- “Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian” 2009, Digiscope (Senior artist, VFX, compositing, tracking, roto)
- “The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus” 2009, Peerless (Compositor)
- “Push” 2009, Digiscope (Senior artist, VFX, compositing, tracking, roto)
- “Blood Done, Sign My Name” 2009, Digiscope (Senior artist, VFX, compositing, tracking, roto)
- “Opposite Day” 2008, Digiscope (Senior artist, VFX, compositing, tracking, roto)
- “Evil Angel” 2008, Digiscope (Senior artist, VFX, compositing, tracking, roto)
- “Salomaybe?” 2008, Digiscope (Senior artist, VFX, compositing, tracking, roto)
- “Superhero Movie” 2008, EntityFX (VFX artist, compositing, tracking, graphic design)
- “Groundhog Day” 2007, The Cannery (on-set VFX supervision, behind-the-scenes DVD)
- “Zoom” 2006, The Cannery (on-set VFX supervision, compositor)
- “Untitled:003, Embryo” 2002, Belief (compositor)
TV Visual Effects
- “The Pacific” 2009, (VFX, compositing, tracking, roto)
- “Fringe” 2008-09, VES Award Winner (VFX, compositing)
- “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” 2009, (VFX, compositing, tracking, roto)
- “The Closer” 2009, (Compositing)
- “Ben 10: Alien Swarm” 2009, (Compositing)
- “Drop Dead Diva” 2009, (Compositing)
- “Dr. Horrible’s Sing-a-long Blog” 2008, (VFX, compositing)
- “Smallville” 2008, (VFX, compositing)
- “Pushing Daisies” 2007 (VFX, compositing)
- “Sports Science” 2007, Emmy Award Winner (VFX, compositing)
- “Crime 360” 2007, (VFX, compositing)
- “Pinks” 2007, (VFX, compositing)
- “Pinks All Out” 2007,(VFX, compositing)
TV Commercials
- “Celine Dion” 2007, (VFX, compositing)
- “Sony Playstation” 2007, (VFX, compositing)
- “Nissan Rogue” 2007, Rogue launch (VFX, compositing)
- “Big Screen Games” 2007, (VFX, compositing)
- “Sony Playstation” 2007, national web ad (VFX, compositing, editing)
- “Nissan Rogue” 2007, national ad (VFX, compositing, editing)
- “Nissan” 2007, national Holiday ad (VFX, tracking, compositing)
- “Noritz” 2007, national ad, Telly Award winner (VFX, compositing)
- “Strawberry Shortcake” 2007, (VFX, compositing, 3D)
- “AmEx” 2006, national ad (VFX, tracking, motion control)
- “Hagerty Insurance” 2005, (VFX, graphic design)
- “Budweiser” 2004, Superbowl ad (VFX, compositing)
- “NOPI.com” 2003, national ad, Telly Award winner (VFX, design)
Broadcast Design & Production
- “RM Classic Car Auction” 2007
- “NOPI Tunervision” 2005-06
- “Redline TV” 2005-06
- “Barrett-Jackson Car Search” 2005
- “American Thunder” 2004
DVD Menu Design & Motion Graphics
- “Groundhog Day” DVD Documentary
- “Return to Neverland” DVD
- “Lost” Blueray DVD
- “Zoom” DVD
- “Wild Hogs” DVD
- “Aquaman” DVD documentary
- “Wind Chill” DVD
- “Gilmore Girls” DVD
Who’ve You Worked With?
- Digiscope
- Peerless Camera Company
- Zoic
- EntityFX
- Belief
- Precision Post
- The Cannery
- CBS
- Yahoo!
- Spike TV, Speed Channel, ESPN, G4 (via WATV Productions)
- WATV
Technical Skills
Visual effects production, compositing, roto, animation, graphic design. I work in After Effects, Illustrator, Photoshop, Motor, Mocha, Monet, Syntheyes, PFTrack, Boujou, Motion, Final Cut Pro, and I’m currently learning Nuke and Shake.
Awards
- Emmy, 2008 (”Sports Science”, TV)
- VES Award, 2008 (”Fringe” pilot, TV)
- Summit Award, 2008 (”Noritz” commercial, TV)
- Telly, 2008 (”Noritz” commercial, TV)
- Telly, 2003 (”NOPI.com” commercial, TV)
- Reggie, 1999 (”Meow Mix” website, graphic design)
- Addy, 1996 (”Akzo Nobel” national print ad)