JOSH LANGE
VISUALIZATION SUPERVISOR · SENIOR / CINEMATICS ANIMATOR
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CAREER PROFILE
Visualization Supervisor (Previs, Postvis, Techvis, Unreal, Virtual Production) with over fourteen years of production experience in the visualization industry. Using 3D animation, realtime game engines, and virtual cinematography, I work with clients to explore ideas and tell stories with the highest emotional impact. My background includes visual art, animation, and filmmaking methods that have inspired worldwide audiences in a number of the most successful entertainment releases of all time.
Core Competencies: Previs (Shot Design, Virtual Cinematography, Layout); Postvis (Camera Tracking, Compositing, Visual Effects, Roto, Paint); Character Animation (Hand-Keyed, Motion Capture, Directing Motion Capture shoots, Facial, Creature); Unreal Engine; Video Editing (Sequences, Trailers); Script Breakdowns; Leading, Managing, and Training Creative Teams Remotely; Iterating on Feedback; Project Management; Digital and Traditional Illustration.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
MPC FILM, VISUALIZATION DEPARTMENT - Culver City, CA 5/2019 to present (remote since 2020)
Moving Picture Company is the international VFX studio known for Academy Award-winning films 1917 & The Lion King.
Previs and Postvis Supervisor, Animation Supervisor
PIXOMONDO - Los Angeles, CA 3/2018 to 3/2019
International VFX studio best known for Game of Thrones and Westworld.
Layout Supervisor, Animator, Previs Lead
THE THIRD FLOOR, INC. - Los Angeles, CA 9/2010 to 3/2013, 7/2017 to 2/2018
International visualization studio best known for the Star Wars and Marvel Studios franchises.
Senior Previs Artist, Postvis Artist 7/2017 to 2/2018, 9/2010 to 3/2013
PROOF, INC. - Los Angeles, CA 6/2013 to 5/2017
International visualization studio best known for the Fast & Furious franchise.
Previs Supervisor
EDUCATION · TEACHING
EPIC UNREAL FELLOWSHIP: ANIMATION - Remote 8/2023-9-2023
EPIC UNREAL FELLOWSHIP: VIRTUAL PRODUCTION - Remote 8/2021-9/2021
LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY - Playa Vista, CA 11/2019
ESCAPE STUDIOS - Santa Monica, CA 2/2011
VANCOUVER FILM SCHOOL - Vancouver, BC 8/2001
Certificate of Recommendation, 3D Animation and Visual Effects
EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE Olympia, WA 6/2000
Visualization Supervisor (Previs, Postvis, Techvis, Unreal, Virtual Production) with over fourteen years of production experience in the visualization industry. Using 3D animation, realtime game engines, and virtual cinematography, I work with clients to explore ideas and tell stories with the highest emotional impact. My background includes visual art, animation, and filmmaking methods that have inspired worldwide audiences in a number of the most successful entertainment releases of all time.
Core Competencies: Previs (Shot Design, Virtual Cinematography, Layout); Postvis (Camera Tracking, Compositing, Visual Effects, Roto, Paint); Character Animation (Hand-Keyed, Motion Capture, Directing Motion Capture shoots, Facial, Creature); Unreal Engine; Video Editing (Sequences, Trailers); Script Breakdowns; Leading, Managing, and Training Creative Teams Remotely; Iterating on Feedback; Project Management; Digital and Traditional Illustration.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
- Visualization Supervisor/Animation Director on a fifteen minute Hive VR theme park ride, including final animation.
- Epic Unreal Engine Virtual Production and Animation Fellowships (2021 and 2023)
- Visualization Lead/Artist on six worldwide blockbusters (two $2B films, four $1B films) and eight acclaimed films and episodic series (one Emmy winner for ‘Best TV Movie;, four ‘Best VFX’ Oscar nominees, two ‘Outstanding Special VFX’ Emmy nominees, and one VES award-winner for ‘Best Animated Special Production’).
- Over twenty-one years of experience bringing to life sequences featuring martial arts/melee fights, chase sequences, animals, dinosaurs, serpents, creatures, monsters, aliens, pistols, rifles, swords, ropes, cartoon-style characters, land/air/space vehicles, FX, magic, and epic battles on over fifty projects.
- Previs Supervisor on three national ad campaigns (Target, Honda, Dick’s Sporting Goods).
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
MPC FILM, VISUALIZATION DEPARTMENT - Culver City, CA 5/2019 to present (remote since 2020)
Moving Picture Company is the international VFX studio known for Academy Award-winning films 1917 & The Lion King.
Previs and Postvis Supervisor, Animation Supervisor
- Visualization and Animation Supervisor for an undisclosed fifteen-minute, final-animation Unreal VR ride (HTC Vive Pro 2 + motion simulation). Created marketing trailer.
- Jordan Peele’s Nope: Visualization Supervisor of a twenty-five-person previs/postvis team that made over six-hundred fifteen shots on twelve sequences, over one year. On-set Unreal virtual production supervision for IMAX film and Alexa cameras. Collaborated with director, HODs, Camera Tracking company and final VFX department for integration. Created marketing reel and VES Virtual Cinematography video submissions.
- Emmy win for Chip n’ Dale: Rescue Rangers television movie.
PIXOMONDO - Los Angeles, CA 3/2018 to 3/2019
International VFX studio best known for Game of Thrones and Westworld.
Layout Supervisor, Animator, Previs Lead
- On The Orville, Season Two: Trained, mentored and led a nine-person Previs team to make over six hundred shots for eight episodes (team earned an Emmy nomination for ‘Outstanding Special VFX’).
- Broke down scripts to create over one hundred 3D shots and storyboards.
- In-house Previs Asset Art Direction and Creation. Modeled, textured, and lit select planets, star systems, FX, and vehicles.
- Previs Artist for Star Trek: Discovery, Season Two. Team earned an Emmy nomination for ‘Outstanding Special VFX.’
THE THIRD FLOOR, INC. - Los Angeles, CA 9/2010 to 3/2013, 7/2017 to 2/2018
International visualization studio best known for the Star Wars and Marvel Studios franchises.
Senior Previs Artist, Postvis Artist 7/2017 to 2/2018, 9/2010 to 3/2013
- Previs Artist and Animator for fight sequences in Avengers: Endgame and Deadpool 2.
- Keyframe and Mocap Postvis on Avengers: Infinity War for the Scarlet Witch & Vision Edinburgh fight, and the Wakanda end battle.
PROOF, INC. - Los Angeles, CA 6/2013 to 5/2017
International visualization studio best known for the Fast & Furious franchise.
Previs Supervisor
- Supervised a nine-person Previs team on Target’s 2016 holiday advertising campaign and a three-person Previs team for a Honda advertising campaign.
- As Previs Lead on Fate of the Furious: Led and collaborated with a twelve-person team to create properly-paced edits and sequences with well-realized assets.
- Previs Lead for in-house Oculus Rift VR theme park project with three-person team.
EDUCATION · TEACHING
EPIC UNREAL FELLOWSHIP: ANIMATION - Remote 8/2023-9-2023
- Chosen for Unreal Engine 5 training, animated a time-lapse stop-motion shot for a team sequence.
EPIC UNREAL FELLOWSHIP: VIRTUAL PRODUCTION - Remote 8/2021-9/2021
- Chosen for Unreal Engine 4 training to make a solo short film with Metahumans. Shot my own motion capture.
LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY - Playa Vista, CA 11/2019
- Previsualization panel member for an event hosted by the LMU Animation Club.
ESCAPE STUDIOS - Santa Monica, CA 2/2011
- Mentor chosen by The Third Floor, inc. to teach previs to an Escape Studios student while she interned at the company.
VANCOUVER FILM SCHOOL - Vancouver, BC 8/2001
Certificate of Recommendation, 3D Animation and Visual Effects
- Received festival extension scholarship (one of three students). During the extension, we were awarded a contract to create a commercial and promotional shorts for the Los Angeles International Short Film Festival.
- Student film played in several international film festivals.
EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE Olympia, WA 6/2000
- Awarded the Evergreen State College Foundation scholarship.
- Psychology, Performing Arts, Astronomy, Chinese Cinema, and Screenwriting courses.
- Ad Designer on college paper The Cooper Point Journal. Interviewed alumnus Matt Groening (The Simpsons).
- Ninjutsu and Pinoy Eskrima (Filipino stick fighting) classes.
- Tennis team
