CULVER CITY, CA — Zoic Studios has promoted VFX supervisor Jeffrey Baksinski to creative director. He has over 30 years of experience in post production, having worked in film and video editing, set supervision and visual effects. With continued series growth across all three Zoic offices, the promotion will allow Baksinski greater creative oversight alongside partners Chris Jones and Andrew Orloff.
Baksinski’s credits includes working on such films as Fifth Element, Titanic and X-men 2, and as a virtual production design on Avatar. He joined Zoic in 2011, has has served as a VFX supervisor on The Get Down, Hand of God, Timeless, Blindspot, The Exorcist, Blacklist, Castle and Six. He also served in a DFX role on
The Grey, Killing Kennedy, Gangster Squad and Lawless.
In 2016, Baksinski received an Emmy nomination for his work on the pilot of Amazon’s original series The Man in the High Castle. He got his start in visual effects at Digital Domain, later moving on to help to build Cinesite Hollywood. Following that, he went on to launch his own visual effects company, Furious FX. He later contributed to the first full virtual production technology for Avatar, and then returned to Digital Domain as their director of digital studio, running the features department and artists. Most recently, Baksinski was a technical designer and implemented the stereo conversion pipeline at Prime Focus before joining Zoic.