I always say I got my start in something of a creative sandbox. There were few limits on what I was allowed to dig my hands into, so I learned what it was like to work with people who had the creative vision to see entire projects through, from conception to final delivery. In 1997, I built a sandcastle of my own called Ntropic, a visual effects house founded on the premise that filmmaking should be a multi-disciplinary process: from production, editing, VFX, and post-production to music and sound.
When I was 15, I combined my passion for skateboarding with my love of filmmaking by creating videos for Santa Cruz Skateboards. Within a few years, I was working at Component Post. From the beginning, I wanted to provide clients with not just A+-level visual effects work, but with collaboration, guidance, and assistance with the entire filmmaking and post-production process for commercials, music videos, and feature films. I didn’t just want to move from job to job; I wanted to develop deep and lasting creative relationships with clients.
Three of us started Ntropic in Sausalito, but we moved the company to San Francisco after a few years. Today, Ntropic has more than 30 talented visionary artists working across our studios in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York.
We’ve worked seamlessly as a family to build a loyal commercial client roster that includes Apple, Nike, Visa, Ford, Xbox, HP, Audi, the San Francisco Giants, and many more. We still work on music videos – for the likes of Green Day, Bon Jovi, and Rihanna – and continue to also work on feature films including The Matrix, Blade Runner: The Final Cut, and the Die Hard and Underworld film franchises. Most recently, we collaborated with B-Reel Films and agency Pereira & O’Dell on the multi-award-winning social film “The Beauty Inside,” directed by Drake Doremus.
