Patrick Murphy

• Professor of visual effects, 2022–present, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA

• General manager and visual effects supervisor, 2017–22, Kappa Studios, Inc.

• Director of mixed reality, 2013–15, Radiant Images

• V.P. stereoscopic services and lead stereographer, 2010–13, Illuminate Hollywood 3D and HTV Company

• Managing director, VFX supervisor, and VFX producer, 2004–09, Larry Levinson Productions, LLC

• Stereoscopic compositing supervisor and stereoscopic technical director, 2009–10, Prime Focus, PLC

• Partner and VFX producer, 2005–08, Red Engine Productions, LLC

• Senior compositor and sequence supervisor, 2006–08, Entity FX

• Senior artist and compositing supervisor, 2000–04, OCS/Pixel Magic

• Artist and trainer, 1996–99, Quantel Inc.

Professional highlights

• Planned, evaluated, and revised training course curricula, content, materials, and methods of instruction.

• Established performance measurements and initiated employee training and development programs boosting team morale, artist motivation and contributing to a 100% employee recidivism rate.

• Led a series of purchases, upgrades and application enhancements for workstations, machine room & edit suite equipment, completing the project $300k under budget.

• Designed a stereoscopic conversion pipeline that reduced labor requirements by 41% and production timelines by 15%.

• Designed and developed a pioneering post production/animation pipeline that empowered management/production company, The Collective, and creator Dane Boedigheimer to make the leap from YouTube to TV with the online sensation "Annoying Orange."

• Effectively communicated costs/risks assessment of VFX proposals in conjunction with possible solutions to influence decisions made by Visual Effects Supervisors and Producers on over 120 film and TV productions.

• Excellent script analysis yielding highly accurate breakdowns, bids, schedules, and resource/material estimates.

• Panoramic HDRI Plate Photography for 2D/3D environments/PTEX painting workflows, design CG Pre-visualization for motion-control/live-action photography, Lighting and Camera Supervision on complex blue/green screen photography.

• Managed consecutive project timelines and proved the accuracy of EVM, Agile, SCRUM, etc. project management principles for TV/Film production environments.