Bela Brozsek

Work History

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  FX Supervisor

  Double Negative

  January 2020 - September 2023
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  Creative Director & Studio Art Director

  Digic Pictures

  February 2016 - March 2018

  Budapest

  Artistic and Creative leadership of the studio, client contact and negotiations, new business development, bidding, hiring, overseeing and approving all ongoing projects.
  Projects: Final Fantasy XV Omen trailer, Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV movie, The Last Guardian Trailer, Call Of Duty Trailer, Witcher Trailer, League of Legends Trailer, Lineage Trailer
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  FX Supervisor

  Prime Focus World

  March 2015 - January 2016

  Mumbai Area, India

  Artistic and technical leadership of the VFX department. Scheduling, delegating, overseeing fx development, mentoring artists, supervising compositing team in live-action and CG integration.
  Projects: Patient Zero, Inferno, Paranormal Activity, The Grimsby Brothers, Chronicles of the Ghostly Tribe

• FX Supervisor

  Brozsek Visuals

  January 1985 - Present

  Greater Los Angeles Area

  participating in Visual Effects projects worldwide
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  FX TD

  Blue Sky Studios

  October 2011 - June 2013

  Greenwich, CT, USA

  Visual effects design, look development, prototyping, large scale dynamic fx work, tool development, mentoring artists.
  Projects: Rio2, Epic, Ice Age: Continental Drift
  
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  CTO & VFX Supervisor

  Binary Fiction

  February 2009 - June 2011

  Gangnam-gu, Seoul, Korea

  Artistic and technical leadership for TV series, technology and new business development,
  Projects: Korean TV Series, Custom 2D to 3D conversion development
  
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  FX TD

  Digital Domain

  October 2008 - February 2009

  Greater Los Angeles Area

  VFX development and shot work.
  Projects: G.I. Joe - The Rise of Cobra
  
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  FX TD

  Industrial Light & Magic

  December 2006 - April 2007

  san francisco

• CEO

  Cognitive Imaging Corp

  November 2004 - Present

  Perception based Software Tools for Medical and Defense

• Art Director & CG Supervisor

  GDC World

  February 2009 - May 2009

  Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

  Artistic and technical leadership of animated feature film project at large scale facility.
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  Technical Art Director

  Heavy Iron Studios / THQ

  April 2007 - October 2008

  Greater Los Angeles Area

  Realtime VFX tool creation, game production pipeline and tool development.
  Projects: Wall-E by Pixar, UP by Pixar, SpongeBob’s Truth or Square
  
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  Lead FX TD

  The Orphanage

  July 2006 - November 2006

  San Francisco Bay Area

  VFX design, team supervision, pipeline development and shot work.
  Projects: The Last Mimzy
  
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  FX TD

  Sony Pictures Imageworks

  November 2005 - June 2006

  visual / digital effects work for"GHOSTRIDER"
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  Senior FX TD

  Rhythm & Hues Studios

  April 2003 - November 2005

  Greater Los Angeles Area

  FX supervision, pipeline development and shot work. Training, mentoring and overseeing FX team.
  Projects: Superman Returns, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Elektra, Around the World in 80 Days, The Cat in the Hat
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  FX TD

  Asylum Visual Effects

  August 2001 - April 2003

  Greater Los Angeles Area

  Art and VFX. Designing and Creating effects and effects pipelines and animations for music videos and feature films.
  Projects: Pearl Harbor, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, Bad Boys II, Hulk, Phone Booth, The Master of Disguise, Minority Report, Black Hawk Down, Music videos for Nickelback, Nikka Costa, Aaliyah.
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  Senior Lighting Artist

  Square Enix

  2000 - 2001

  Honolulu, HI

  Ligthing, Shaders and Look Development. Lighting, shot setup and rendering.
  Projects: Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
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  Art Director

  Square USA

  August 1996 - April 1998

  Greater Los Angeles Area

  Working on 'Parasite Eve' Video Game. Hired and lead Korean and Japanese art department staff. Designed environments, wrote scripts and tools for automatic updates of game image libraries for both LA and Honolulu.
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  Art Director

  Rainmaker Entertainment

  1997 - 1998

  Greater Los Angeles Area

  Leading the art department, working on music videos, commercials, features, video games and a 3D IMAX movie.

• FX TD

  Santa Barbara Studios

  1996 - 1997

  Santa Barbara, California Area

  Designing and animating space tear effects for Startrek IX - The Insurrection.

• Creative Director / Co - Owner

  Perception Systems Inc

  May 1995 - December 1996

  Greater Los Angeles Area

  Invented, patented and demonstrated ( E3 1996 ) the world's first computer vision based video game controller 'ZON' for Nintendo , Playstation and PC game platforms. This game controller technology has been now 'adopted' by Sony ( EyeToy, Move ) as well as by Microsoft ( Kinect ). Developed high precision golf ball launch measurement system for Callaway Golf.

• Art Director

  VIFX

  1995 - 1996

  Greater Los Angeles Area

  Art Director for feature film.
  Projects: MMPR
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  Art Director

  Digital Domain

  August 1993 - January 1995

  Greater Los Angeles Area

  Storyboard, concept art, animation, corporate graphics, hiring, mentoring and training CG artists.
  Projects: T2 3-D: Battle Across Time, Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles

• Creative Director

  Sidley Wright Associates

  1993 - 1993

  Greater Los Angeles Area

  Client contact and handling, design, and VFX work for features, commercials and video games.
  Projects: Coneheads, The Trail of the Pink Panther

• Lead Computer Graphics Dept

  Videopix, Zurich, Switzerland

  August 1985 - December 1988

  Zürich Area, Switzerland

  Working on Paintbox V1, Abekas, Symbolics, ADO, GV Caleidoscope, Rank Cintel ( and many more ) and demonstrating them around Europe. Built CG department from scratch with many new and exciting technologies. This was the beginning of VFX as we know it today. Learned my first programming language, LISP.