Adam C. Sager

Work History

• Visual Effects Supervisor / Owner

  The SAGERDIGITAL Company

  November 2005 - Present

  Portland, Oregon, US

  Founded in 2005, The Sagerdigital Company continues to operate as the s-corporation through which Adam works in the TV, film and commercial industries.
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  On-Set VFX Supervisor

  Refuge VFX

  February 2020 - February 2020

  Portland, OR

  Provided on-set VFX supervision for the TBS original series CHAD.
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  Compositor

  Hinge

  November 2019 - November 2019

  Portland, OR

  Animated/composited several looping load screen cinemagraphs for Warcraft3 release.
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  VFX Supervisor

  Bent Image Lab

  April 2019 - November 2019

  Portland, OR

  Supervised VFX (both on-set and throughout post) for the Facebook Watch original series The Birch.

• Compositor

  Skazka Studios

  March 2019 - April 2019

  Portland, OR

  Adam had the pleasure of collaborating with Matvey Rezanov of Skazka Studios to produce the animated backdrops for Kid Cudi's performance at the 2019 Coachella Music and Arts Festival. Rezanov is known for his unique and beautiful watercolor animation style.
  It was a tall order. The team had ~12 days to generate and deliver 32,000+ frames of 4K content to the client. Rezanov and two other talented artists generated all the watercolor elements while Adam was tasked with piecing together, programming and timing the animation to be in-sync with the provided music tracks, ensuring the content was rendered and delivered on-time and to the venue's technical specifications.
  After a successful delivery for Coachella's opening weekend, The team was hired again to produce similar content for Kid Cudi's performance during the second weekend of Coachella (which featured a guest appearance by Kanye West), requiring Adam to turn around another 16,000 frames of 4K animated content in about 36 hours.

• Visual Effects Supervisor

  Puppetcore Films

  December 2017 - March 2020

  Portland, OR

  Worked with director Jesse Blanchard to produce the VFX for the feature length puppet film "Frank & Zed".
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  Adjunct Instructor

  George Fox University

  August 2014 - Present

  Newberg, Oregon

  Recruited to develop and teach visual effects courses for the university's Cinematic Arts program.
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  Freelance Compositor

  Sockeye

  February 2014 - February 2019

  Portland, Oregon Area

  Various projects about which I am not at liberty to discuss.

• VFX Supervisor

  "Trinkets" (Netflix)

  November 2018 - December 2018

  Portland, OR

  Adam was recruited by the Unit Production Manager of the Netflix original series TRINKETS to work with episode director Hannah Macpherson to plan, previs, supervise, and composite a visual effects sequence for one of the show's episodes.

• On-Set Compositor/VFX Supervisor

  Cosmos: Possible Words

  April 2018 - June 2018

  Santa Fe, NM

  Working alongside VFX Supervisor Jeff Okun to oversee the filming of visual effects sequences for the third season of Carl Sagan's COSMOS, featuring Neil deGrasse Tyson.
  
  Executive producers Ann Druyan and Seth MacFarlane.
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  Compositor

  VFX Legion

  April 2017 - March 2018

  Portland, OR

  Remote compositing work for projects like ABC's hit drama "Scandal."

• Post Supervisor & Visual Effects Supervisor/Producer

  Four Winters / Two Balloons

  June 2015 - April 2018

  Portland, OR

  Two Balloons is a stop-motion animated short film produced in Portland, Oregon by writer/director/producer Mark C. Smith. I am fortunate to have served the production as the Post Production Supervisor and Visual Effects Supervisor/Producer. Additionally, I generate most the film's marketing and publicity materials: poster design, academy screeners, behind-the-scenes featurettes, VFX breakdowns, social media posts, etc. When my schedule permits, I've also greatly enjoyed representing the film at film festivals.
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  Freelance Compositor

  HouseSpecial

  April 2015 - March 2018
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  VFX Supervisor

  Electric Entertainment

  April 2017 - January 2018

  Portland, OR
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  Freelance Compositor

  Bent Image Lab

  May 2009 - February 2017

  Portland, Oregon Area

  Most recent—
  *Ensure commercial spot (Mar '15)
  Cadbury commercial spots (Feb '15)
  *Moods Chocolate spot (Nov/Dec '14)
  *Ensure commercial spots (Sept-Nov '14)
  Rudolph's 50th Anniversary (Aug '14)
  *Otrivin commercial spots (June-Aug '14)
  *Untitled Louis C.K./Zach Galifianakis Project (June '14)
  *Otrivin commercial spot (May '14)
  *McDonald's FIFA commercial spot (April/May '14)
  *Man Seeking Woman [TV Movie] (Apr '14)
  *IFC's Portlandia — Beaver segment (Dec '13 / Jan '14)
  Coca-Cola spots for winter olympics (Dec '13 / Jan '14)
  *McDonalds commercial spot (Oct/Nov 2013)
  Otrivin commercial spot (Oct 2013)
  Boston Pizza commercial spots (Oct 2013)
  *Ensure commercial spot (July/Aug 2013)
  Pilot episode for VH1 original series (July 2013)
  Kellogg's Frosted Mini-Wheats commercial spot (July 2013)
  Starbucks commercial spots (April-June 2013)
  *Gas-X— 8 commercial spots (Jan-April 2013)
  *IFC's Portlandia— Rats animated segments (Oct-Dec 2012)
  *Lowe's commercial spot (Dec 2012)
  Koodo Wireless commercial spot & bug (Nov 2012)
  Raley's commercial spot (Oct 2012)
  *Ensure commercial spot (Sept-Oct 2012)
  Jingle & Bell's Christmas Star [Hallmark Channel] (June 2012 - August 2012)
  hoops&yoyo;'s Haunted Halloween [Hallmark Channel] (July 2012)
  Ensure commercial spot (April 2012)
  Adventure Time ID Bumpers for Cartoon Network (December 2011)
  Prior Moonlight Projects include—
  Jingle All The Way (2011 Hallmark Christmas Special)
  Restless (2010 Gus van Sant feature)
  What's Wrong With Virginia (2010 Gus van Sant feature)
  Fruity Pebbles commercial spot
  Tinactin commercial spot
  Always/Orkid commercial spot
  Ensure commercial spot
  *lead compositor

• Freelance Compositor

  Juliet Zulu

  January 2012 - December 2015

  Portland, Oregon Area

  Jan '14 Puma FC
  Oct '13 Puma
  Sept '13 TBA
  Aug '13 Puma
  June '13 Nike+ Accelorator
  Jan '13 Puma
  Nov '12 LeBron LBJX
  Sept '12 Puma commercial spots
  April '12 Puma commercial spots
  Feb '12 Nike+ LeBron Basketball commercial spots
  Jan '12 Nike Kobe Adaption commercial spots

• Director / Digital Media Specialist

  Kimbra

  March 2015 - September 2015

  Portland, OR

  Directed, produced and composited "Kimbra's Wish" music video.
  
  Hired to develop and produce digital projection content for Kimbra's 2015 US Tour.

• Visual Effects

  Dark Dunes Productions

  February 2015 - February 2015

  Main title animation for feature length sci-fi fantasy puppet film "Yamasong: March of the Hollows". In talks to potentially serve as senior/lead compositor throughout post-production.

• Visual Effects Supervisor

  The Spirit Cabinet

  September 2014 - February 2015

  Burbank, California

• Freelance Compositor

  The Flock

  January 2013 - February 2015

  Portland, Oregon Area

  Oct/Nov 2013
  Composited several Cinemagraphs for upcoming Warner Bros feature film.
  Jan 2013
  Animated and Composited video transitions.
  https://jackthegiantslayer.warnerbros.com

• Visual Effects Supervisor

  Stripey Pajama Productions

  August 2013 - December 2014

  Portland, Oregon Area

  LESSONS LEARNED — a short film written and directed by Toby Froud
  #LessonsLearnedFilm
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  Freelance Compositor

  Hinge Digital

  August 2012 - December 2014

  Portland, Oregon

  Dec 2014
  Developed and animated visual effects elements for a COX Cable 60-sec commercial spot.
  Sept-Oct 2013
  Neat Cloud Scanner 2-minute motion graphics commercial spot.
  Aug 2012
  Contracted to generate and animate VFX elements, integrate CG character animation, and perform final composites for 8 interactive web banners promoting Skylanders: Giants video game.

• Freelance Compositor

  Bughouse Productions

  March 2014 - October 2014

  Portland, Oregon Area

  Worked with a small creative team to create digital courses for the University of Utah's online MBA program.

• Freelance Compositor/Animator

  Providence Health & Services

  September 2010 - June 2014

  Portland, Oregon Area

  Annually contracted to provide motion graphics and animation content for commercial broadcasts and special event media presentations.
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  Freelance Compositor

  Delirium Studio

  February 2014 - March 2014

  Portland, Oregon Area

  Feb/March 2014
  International Mastercard commercial campaign.

• Freelance Compositor

  Fashionbuddha Studio

  October 2008 - November 2013

  Portland, Oregon Area

  Oct/Nov 2013 TBA
  June 2013 Intel Interactive demo
  May 2012 Monterey Bay Interactive Billboard
  Jan/Feb 2012 Waggener Edstrom promo

• Freelance Kinetic Designer

  Ziba Design

  April 2013 - April 2013

  Portland, Oregon Area

• Freelance Compositor/Animator

  Instrument

  March 2013 - March 2013

  Portland, Oregon Area
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  Freelance Compositor

  Hive-FX

  November 2011 - April 2012

  Portland, Oregon Area

  Compositing work on NBC's Grimm doing creature morph FX, digital cleanup, and various other visual fx elements.

• Technical Director / Compositor

  Fashionbuddha Studio

  October 2008 - December 2011

  Portland, Oregon Area

  Responsible for the final composites of all live-action/animation production.
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  Ramp Agent

  DHL

  August 2003 - May 2009

  Portland International Airport

  Responsible for the loading and unloading of parcel to/from aircraft.
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  Jr. Compositor

  Laika

  March 2008 - October 2008

  Worked as a Jr. Compositor in the VFX department of Oscar-nominated stop-motion animated film Coraline. I was initially trained to digitally remove face seams, but quickly progressed to rig removal, digital clean-up, and eventually compositing VFX elements like steam, fire, and smoke.

  

• Editor/Compositor

  Fashionbuddha Studio

  November 2006 - March 2008

  Started at Fashionbuddha as an intern throughout my senior year at the Art Institute. Then had a full-time position waiting for me upon graduation.