The Mission has brought VFX supervisor Patrick Ferguson on board. For the past five years, he has been at Method Studios as head of 2D, working on major commercial projects for Samsung, Kia, Sonos, and Verizon to name a few. He earlier worked at such effects houses as Digital Domain, Sony Imageworks and Asylum.
Ferguson started out as a still photographer in New York in 1991. He won several national awards with his mixed media creations of Polaroid, watercolor, transfer separation, and computer enhancement. In 1995, he crossed over to the moving image, becoming a visual effects artist working in After Affects, Flint, and Flame.
Ferguson has collaborated on a range of high profile projects with some of the industry’s best directors, including Noam Murro, Nicolai Fuglsig, David Fincher and Sam Bayer. His experience also spans a number of top feature films such as Pirates of the Caribbean, Alice in Wonderland, and he was part of the Academy Award-winning team on The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. He brings with him more than 20 years expertise in visual effects and has won a number of awards including several BDA, AICP Show and Clio awards.
Michael Pardee, founder/managing director of the Mission, said, “Patrick is an immense creative talent. We’ve wanted to work together again since our mutual days at Digital Domain.”
Ferguson rounds out a talented team at the Mission that includes animation director Piotr Karwas and fellow VFX supervisor/lead Flame artist Joey Brattesani.
