About Me

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Josh Johnson is a filmmaker, visual effects supervisor, VFX Artist, and teacher with over 12 years of experience. In 2014 (RICH HILL), he worked on a documentary that required complex invisible VFX; this film won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. In 2017 (A GHOST STORY), 2018 (THE LONG DUMB ROAD), 2019 (NATIVE SON) and 2020 (OMNIBOAT: A FAST BOAT FANTASIA) he worked on films that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. He’s currently in post on his short film that was selected as Project of the Day on IndieWire. In 2019, he finished post on a feature film that he VFX Supervised called, Native Son, which was produced by A24 and was bought by HBO (Critics’ Choice Nominee) at the Sundance premiere in 2019. He was also a 2nd unit plate photographer and lead VFX artist on this film. He also worked on the Emmy Nominated HBO documentary ABORTION: STORIES WOMEN TELL.

He has given multiple presentations at SIGGRAPH, SXSW, and NAB. His work has been featured in a variety of places such as Vanity Fair, Indiewre, No Film School, 3D World Magazine, Nerdist, Studiodaily, MAXON, Its Art Mag, Post Magazine, and Digital Production Magazine. Josh also teaches an adjunct film class at Lindenwood Univsery.

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My Reel

Press/Articles

CGSociety Interview about ONE & TWO VFX
Artist Profile by Imagineer Systems
MAXON – Pyrrhosoma
Studio Daily – Pig Lady
Mograph Candy – Use the Tools that Cinema 4D Pros Use
MAXON’s YouTube – R16 Short Film Promo
Renderosity – Addy Awarding Winning Spot
Cartoon Brew – Late For Meeting

Speaking Events

SIGGRAPH 2018
SIGGRAPH 2015
SXSW 2015 for MAXON Cinema 4D (No Video)
SIGGRAPH 2014
SIGGRAPH 2012
NAB 2013 for Nvidia and Jawset (No Video)

3 Comments

  • Mpeta on Oct 25, 2016 Reply

    In youre tutorial new motion tracker with r16 you tought us how to track in C4D and pressing 3d model inside c4d but you didnt teach us how to track in c4d and importing 3d model from outside c4d.

  • AriLevinson@gmail.com on Sep 21, 2016 Reply

    Hey Josh, are you available for some compositing work ASAP? Also, where are you located?

    • Josh on Jun 20, 2017 Reply

      Hi, this comment was flagged as spam. Sorry. Just seeing it now. Please shoot me an email.

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3 Comments

  • Mpeta on Oct 25, 2016 Reply

    In youre tutorial new motion tracker with r16 you tought us how to track in C4D and pressing 3d model inside c4d but you didnt teach us how to track in c4d and importing 3d model from outside c4d.

  • AriLevinson@gmail.com on Sep 21, 2016 Reply

    Hey Josh, are you available for some compositing work ASAP? Also, where are you located?

    • Josh on Jun 20, 2017 Reply

      Hi, this comment was flagged as spam. Sorry. Just seeing it now. Please shoot me an email.

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