While We Render

4. Finding Balance with Ian Northrop

Episode Summary

In this episode, David chats with Emmy-nominated compositing supervisor Ian Northrop about his life and career in visual effects. Tune in to hear the story behind Ian’s Emmy nomination, how he balances work and family time, and Ian’s worst ever mistake in After Effects.

Episode Notes

In this episode, David chats with Emmy-nominated compositing supervisor Ian Northrop about his life and career in visual effects. Tune in to hear the story behind Ian’s Emmy nomination, how Ian balances work and family time, and Ian’s worst ever mistake in After Effects.

Show Notes

• Ian’s IMDb page
• Check out Ian’s most recent VFX reel here.
• Learn more about Digital Domain’s pre-visualization and post-visualization here.
• Some of the VFX software Ian mentions are After Effects, Nuke, 
• Prodman (or Production Management) was the name of David and Ian’s office lounge space, where they would often talk while waiting for renders to complete.  
• Fun Fact, the nickname actually was Café Prodman  due to the Edison bulb string lights overhead and a fresh pot of coffee always available.