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About
tbird
VFX etc..
Portland, Maine
Flame VFX and Shoot Supervision
28 Years In the business of Post Production & Digital Effects.
I began my career back when, to be a paintbox artist one needed a fine arts degree. I was an Environmental Science Major with a summer job moving film cans around in the National Film archive Vaults. Despite my apparent lack of qualifications some determination and luck landed me right there in 1989 when the first all digital Edit Suite was built at the Moving Picture Company, and I also was there in 1990 the day that the MILL opened the first all digital post house. I was there in 1992 when Quantel unveiled the first Henry, and in 1993 when they rolled out the first [and last] Domino. Editel, thankfully bought a flame in 1996 which I quickly mastered and then Editel sadly closed. I Quickly wrangled a green card using my “Extraordinary Abilities” and by hiring a sly Immigration lawyer who could boast no less than Salvador Dali as a past client .So I was off and running. First I worked for NBC covering the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.Then I Freelanced in New York and ran the 2d department at Image design for a while., then I moved to Los angeles for the summer and Freelanced there too. Since I could handle both Henry and Flame I was in considerable demand so I tried to clone myself by opening 13Hands Inc. a freelance Agency supplying post production talent to Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco. I then threw myself into Feature Film Effects ,which is a whole different kettle of fish. I returned to Commercial work in 2003. Quietly rebuilding my reputation, the tag “Industry Veteran” has been subsequently bandied about more than once. This is not entirely inaccurate since I have pretty much worked almost everywhere, and with almost everyone on almost everything. I have run my own enterprise, managed several large 2d departments, supervised some very odd and exotic shoots and finished hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of Commercials, Music Videos, Film Title sequences, Infomercials as well as a fair few tricky Feature Film effects shots.