Heath Firestone

Experience

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  Firestone Studios LLC

  Oct 1999 - now

  Producer/Director/Visual Effects Supervisor
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  Colorado Film School

  Aug 2001 - Dec 2005

  Instructor

  I taught a number of different classes at Colorado Film School, including:Introduction to Digital Effects (using Adobe After Effects)Digital Editing with Premiere ProDigital Editing with AvidAdobe Flash Animation for WebWeb Authoring with DreamWeaverAdobe PhotoShop

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  TV Technology Magazine

  Nov 2002 - now

  Contributing Editor

  http://www.firestonestudios.com/Articles/TVTechJuly-25-07IsMPEG-2Dead.pdfhttp://www.firestonestudios.com/Articles/TVTechNov-7-07ProHDVersusConsumerHD.pdfhttp://www.firestonestudios.com/Articles/TVTechNov-13-02MatroxMakesFantasiesHappen.pdf

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  To Build a Fire

  Jan 2005 - Jan 2006

  Producer/ Director of Photography

  This was a short film based on Jack London's "To Build a Fire". It is set in the Yukon, and follows an arrogant man and his dog, through the treacherous cold of the Canadian northwest, in pursuit of gold, but turns into a struggle for survival... to build a fire. It's a great story, and we had a great crew, and a lot of fun. It was some of the most demanding filming I've done, in some of the most difficult locations, but the visuals were worth it.

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  Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design

  Jan 2005 - Jun 2009

  Instructor

  I developed and taught a senior level Advanced 2D/3D Compositing for Animation Course, which was a required course for animation students. The class focused on advanced composting techniques, compositing live action elements into 3D compositing environments, primarily using Combustion and Maya. The students already had compositing and animation experience, so we focused on much more complex compositing scenarios, utilizing camera tracking, and much more advanced techniques than just traditional compositing in one application, instead creating composites in Combustion, and mapping those composites onto objects in Maya, matching virtual camera moves with physical camera moves, creating interactive layered composites within Maya projects. Show less

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  Zero Point Studio

  Jan 2006 - Jan 2010

  Co-Owner/Producer/Director/Editor
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  Post Magazine

  Jun 2007 - now

  Contributing Editor

  http://www.firestonestudios.com/Articles/PostMay08TheRealityOfMotionCapture.pdfhttp://www.firestonestudios.com/Articles/PostOct07TheTruthAboutCodecsPart1.pdfhttp://www.firestonestudios.com/Articles/PostNov07TheTruthAboutCodecsPart2.pdfhttp://www.firestonestudios.com/Articles/PostJuly07AdventuresInBlu-RayDiscAuthoring.pdf

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  CinemaTechnica LLC

  Oct 2021 - now

  Owner/Creator

  CinemaTechnica.com, is a website and YouTube Channel dedicated to those interested in the movie making process. It is a combination of a blog covering what I think is interesting that is happening in the industry, but also has product reviews, industry news, and videos on what you would have learned in film school,(had you gone to film school), film making for kids, interviews, and some forums for areas where I have a unique background.