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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.Background. All of this started in advertising. I studied art and film at a small New England college; 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 a client look good on screen, in print and on the web, moving or not.
What Have You Done? Extensive design and production with real-world experience designing, producing and managing motion graphics/ broadcast design & production.
Feature Films
- “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, behind-the-scenes DVD, compositor)
- “Untitled:003, Embryo” 2002, Belief (compositor)
TV Visual Effects
- “Fringe” 2008, (TV)
- “Dr. Horrible’s Sing-a-long Blog” 2008, (WWW)
- “Smallville” 2008, (TV)
- “Pushing Daisies” 2007 (TV)
- “Sports Science” 2007, (TV)
- “Crime 360″ 2007, (TV)
- “Pinks” 2007,(TV)
- “Pinks All Out” 2007,(TV)
- “Celine Dion” 2007,(TV)
- “Sony Playstation” 2007,(web)
- “Nissan” 2007, Rogue launch(web)
- “Big Screen Games” 2007,(HD gameshow)
- “Redline TV” 2007, (TV) Commercials
- “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 (VFX, tracking, compositing)
- “Strawberry Shortcake” 2007, (commercial)
- “AmEx” 2006, national ad (VFX, tracking, motion control)
- “Budweiser” 2004, Superbowl ad (VFX, compositing)
- “NOPI” 2003, national ad, Telly Award winner (VFX, design)
Broadcast package design/production
- “RM Auction” 2007
- “NOPI” 2006, 2005
- “Barrett-Jackson” 2005
- “Hagerty Insurance” 2005
- “American Thunder” 2004
- “RedlineTV” 2005-2006
DVD Menu Design Motion graphics, animation & compositing for:
- “Return to Neverland” (DVD)
- “Lost” (Blueray DVD)
- “Zoom” DVD
- “Wild Hogs” DVD
- “Aquaman” documentary
- “Windchill” DVD
- “Gilmore Girls” DVD
Who’ve You Worked With?
- Digiscope
- Zoic
- EntityFX
- Belief
- Precision Post
- The Cannery
- CBS
- Yahoo!
- Spike TV, Speed Channel, ESPN, G4 (via WATV Productions)
Technical Skills
Visual effects production, compositing, rotoscoping, animation, graphic design. I work in After Effects, Illustrator, Photoshop, Motor, Mocha, Monet, PFTrack, Boujou, Motion, Final Cut Pro, and I’m currently learning Nuke and adding beef to my skills in Shake.
Awardage
- Telly, 2003(NOPI.com national ad)
- Reggie, 1999(Meow Mix promo website graphics/design)
- Addy, 1996(Akzo Nobel national print ad)