Brian Pohl
Overview
Brian J. Pohl has over 17 years of experience as a visual effects artist, layout artist, and previs supervisor. A veteran of George Lucas’ previs team and Industrial Light and Magic’s art department, Pohl is credited for creating or supervising previs on over 27 feature films. Pohl has also served an additional nine years within the software development industry by consulting on new tools that assist the digital artist’s production workflow. Trained in agile workflow methodology alongside multiple years of teaching and lecturing at various educational institutions, Pohl has spent a large portion of his career providing creative cinematic direction, story and technical previs supervision and educational subject matter expertise to large sized production teams and audiences in either the film or broadcast industries.
Education
Gnomon, Computer Graphics, 1999-2000
Oral Roberts University, BS in Broadcast Design Art, 1985-1989
Work Experience
Technical Program Manager, Epic Games
Previs Supervisor, Psyop
Previs Supervisor, Proof Inc.
Credits
Inversion (Previs and Technical Supervisor)
Bright (Previs and Technical Supervisor)
The Raid (TV Commercial) (Previs artist)
Clash of Clans (TV Commercial) (Previs artist)
Independence Day – Resurgence (Previsualization Supervisor)
Knights of the Round Table – King Arthur (Previsualization Supervisor)
Xbox Halo 5 TV Commercial (Previsualization Supervisor)
Target – Holiday Odyssey (Previsualization Supervisor)
Super 8 (Previs Supervisor)
Battle: Los Angeles (Previs Supervisor)
Star Trek (Previs Supervisor)
Night at the Museum 2 (Previs Supervisor)
Evan Almighty (Previs Supervisor)
Open Season (Previsualization Artist)
Van Helsing (Previsualization Artist)
Men in Black II (Previsualization Artist)
Terminator 3 (Previsualization Artist)