A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
After graduating from the School of Film and Television at U.S.C., John began his career in the industry as a cinematographer, working on a variety of projects for television and film. In 1993, he was introduced to computer animation by a friend, and soon found a new and exciting outlet for his skills in cinematography. With his ability to translate the real world of filmmaking into the computer, John was soon discovered by Amblin Entertainment in 1993, where he began work on the visual effects team for seaQuest DSV (1993) (TV)_. John was soon promoted to Vice-President/General Manager of the newly founded Amblin Imaging, where he supervised effects on both seaQuest and Star Trek: Voyager. His work on the pilot of Voyager earned him an Emmy Award in 1995, for computer animation. With the end of seaQuest and Amblin Imaging in 1996, John moved off lot to form his own facility, Digital Muse, creating effects for shows such as X-Files, Sliders and Titanic: The mini-series, as well as continued work on Voyager and Deep Space Nine. In addition, the company branched into film and commercial work, quickly becoming a premier visual effects boutique in Hollywood. In 2000, John left Muse to found a visual effects division at Hollywood Digital West. The team he helped form would produce visual effects for the acclaimed series Invisible Man on the Sci-Fi Channel. In 2002, John moved up to Vice President of Visual Effects for Liberty Livewire Pictures, working closely with Riot Effects in Santa Monica, and Encore Effects in Hollywood. Utilizing his skills in production, post-production and visual effects, in 2003, John began his transition back into producing for feature film and television, working with CafeFX, Vinton Studios (now Laika) and many others as a producer. John has also acted as General Manager for worldwide VFX giant Pixomondo, Managing Director of supercomputer company Silverdraft and Executive Producer for Shade VFX, New York.
CG Supervisor:
2005 Sin City
Director of Photography:
1989 Tale of Two Sisters
2005 Sin City
Executive Producer:
1989 Tale of Two Sisters
2005 Sin City
2020 Alone
Producer:
1989 Tale of Two Sisters
2005 Sin City
2006 Danika
2007 Lucifer
2020 Alone
VFX Supervisor:
1989 Tale of Two Sisters
2005 Sin City
2006 Danika
2007 Lucifer
2012 The Hunger Games
2020 Alone
Visual Effects Producer:
1989 Tale of Two Sisters
2005 Sin City
2006 Danika
2007 Lucifer
2012 The Hunger Games
2017 Rough Night
2020 Alone
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.