Jeff Heusser

Current

Freelance Compositor at neonmargarita, LLC
Vice Chancellor at fxphd

Past

Freelance Compositor at Digital Domain
Inferno Compositor at The Orphanage
Compositor at Hydraulx

Compositor at Charlex
Managing Director at SOL Designfx
Senior Digital Compositor at The Post Group
Director of Digital Production at CIS Hollywood
Editor at Editel
Editor at Charlex
Director of Post Production at Instant Replay
Executive Producer at WLWT
Producer/Director at WCET

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Jeff Heusser’s Summary

I am currently a freelance Flame/Inferno compositor doing visual effects for Feature Films and Commercials. A list of feature film credits can be seen at imdb: http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0381899.

I am also a co-founder of the leading industy web site fxguide.com. Fxguide provides news, tips, podcasts, forums for the visual effects community. A sister site fxphd.com is an online film school offering over 30 courses in all areas of visual effects, at an affordable price.

After working in television for many years as a Producer, Director and Executive Producer I found myself spending a good deal of time in post production facilities doing show opens, etc. This was when the business of post production was new so when an opportunity arose to move into it, I jumped at it.

This career has led me from Cincinnati to New York to Chicago and for the last 10+ years, Los Angeles.

Jeff Heusser’s Specialties:

Compositing, Editing, Conforming, Visual Effects, on-set supervision

Jeff Heusser’s Experience

Freelance Compositor

neonmargarita, LLC

(Privately Held; Myself Only; Entertainment industry)

March 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)

Senior visual effects artist, on set supervision, Flame, Inferno for commericals and feature films
Vice Chancellor

fxphd

(Motion Pictures and Film industry)

2006 — Present (3 years)
Freelance Compositor

Digital Domain

(Privately Held; D2; Animation industry)

December 2008 — January 2009 (2 months)

Worked on commercials for Toyota and Capital One Bank.
Inferno Compositor

The Orphanage

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Motion Pictures and Film industry)

2008 — 2008 (less than a year)
Compositor

Hydraulx

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Entertainment industry)

March 2005 — March 2008 (3 years 1 month)

Freelance doing compositing for feature films as well as commercial projects. Commericals include: Starbucks, Gatorade, Fresca, Jeep, Coca Cola, Mercury. Feature film work: Shark Boy and Lava Girl, Fantastic 4, The Fog, Aeon Flux, Little Man, Xmen 3, Poseidon, 300, AVP:R, Meet Dave.
Compositor

Charlex

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Animation industry)

January 2005 — March 2005 (3 months)

DirecTV campaign, Volvo
Managing Director

SOL Designfx

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Entertainment industry)

1999 — January 2005 (6 years)

SOL Designfx is a division of Cutters, a Chicago based Editorial company. In the Los Angeles office we did national commercials and some feature film work. My areas were Flame/Inferno compositing and conforming, On-Set Supervision. I also supervised the design, construction and a move into a new 5000 sq ft facility in Venice. I left when the Los Angeles office was closed to refocus on Editorial.
Senior Digital Compositor

The Post Group

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Entertainment industry)

1998 — 1999 (1 year)
Director of Digital Production

CIS Hollywood

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Entertainment industry)

1995 — 1998 (3 years)
Editor

Editel

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Entertainment industry)

1990 — 1995 (5 years)

Editel Chicago was the leader in the Chicago market for many years. I was hired to build and operate one of the first ten D1 editing suites in the world.

We did a lot of cartoon animation with live action commercial compositing... this was before electronic ink and paint when it was all shot on film. This was very successful at meeting the goal of keeping a great deal of compositing work in Chicago that had been leaving town. We also had the strength of having sister companies in New York and Los Angeles.

Sadly, Editel was bought by Unitel and the Editel and Unitel franchises were both driven to extinction. I had moved to Los Angeles before the Chicago office closed.
Editor

Charlex

(Entertainment industry)

1989 — 1990 (1 year)
Director of Post Production

Instant Replay

(Entertainment industry)

1985 — 1989 (4 years)
Executive Producer

WLWT

(Entertainment industry)

1982 — 1985 (3 years)
Producer/Director

WCET

(Entertainment industry)

1972 — 1982 (10 years)