Ron Herbst
CG Supervisor/Certified Unreal 4 Generalist/Lighting Lead
Supervisor CG Supervisor / Lead Lead Lighting Artist / 15 yrs
Los Angeles
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My early career in Los Angeles presented me with many challenging and highly creative opportunities on ultra-low budget feature films, from gun wrangling to production design to, yes, screenwriting. In 1990 I was privileged to join the IATSE Local 790, creating period movie posters on the film "Guilty by Suspicion." I worked in the 4-ward Productions model shop, then in the Apogee Productions art department until its demise in 1992. At Apogee, I learned the Video Toaster from Joe Conti, who soon after, hired me to head the Video Playback unit for seaQuest, DSV, designing and delivering computer display graphics for the futuristic sets. In the third season of seaQuest, I transitioned over to concept illustrator for the show. Some of my submarine designs can be viewed on my ArtStation page.
After seaQuest, I spent the next few years illustrating for films and TV--projects ("Dante's Peak," "George of the Jungle," "Sphere" and Hercules/Xena). In 1997 I worked a stint at Flat Earth Productions, shifting from storyboards to video graphics, and later towards straight digital effects. In 1998 Digital Domain hired me to head the Holographic Display CG team for "Supernova," and until November, 2018, I led teams at DD on mostly commercial and VR projects, but also a few features, such as "Tron: Legacy" and "Ender's Game."
In December, 2018 I left DD for CoSA VFX in North Hollywood, where I supervised CG on episodic television projects. From there, I went to Method Studios to do lighting and lookdev for a game cinematic and assorted NDA projects. Moving to Scanline VFX in 2021, I supervised CG on several sequences for the Netflix action feature, "The Gray Man," including a tentpole skydiving sequence featuring a disintegrating C-130 plane and a digital Ryan Gosling. In 2022, I went to FuseFX where I supervised several episodic shows, such as Special Ops: Lioness and the upcoming Netflix series, The Brothers Sun.
Specialties: Supervision; VR, Stereo and unorthodox formats; Lighting, Look Development and Modeling in Maya/VRay and Maya/Redshift; UE4 lighting and cinematic creation; Nuke compositing; complex problem solving.
Reel: https://vimeo.com/862108857
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronald-herbst/
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0378717/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
ArtStation: https://www.artstation.com/ronherbst7
Work History
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CG Supervisor
Digital Domain
September 2011 - December 2018Bidding, staffing and supervising teams of 3D and occasionally 2D artists on dozens of VR, game cinematic and commercial projects for high-end clients such as Google, Nike, Adidas, P&G, EA, Ubisoft, Sprint and nearly every car manufacturer, US and international. Was actively involved in the adoption, testing and refinement of new tools and technologies with the goals of improving pipeline and artist efficiency, opening up project opportunities in burgeoning new fields, and all-in-all helping keep Digital Domain at the cutting edge of VFX and VR. In between projects I would do backfill look development, lighting and compositing work for commercial, feature film and episodic projects.
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cg generalist
Flat Earth Productions
January 1997 - August 1999Burbank, CACG Direction, Graphic Displays, Compositing, Match-Moving, Lighting, Storyboarding. I created display graphics for the short-lived "Timecop" ABC series, and also did effects storyboards and some compositing work on the feature film, "Blade," and two Rennaissance shows, "Hercules" and "Xena."
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Education
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Studio Art: Design Concentration
Stanford University
September 1982 - June 1986 -
High School
Morgan Park Academy
1977 - 1982