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Los Angeles
USA

(323) 547-0702

I am a Compositing Supervisor/Senior Compositor who has also served in the capacity as the Head of the 2D Department (for both the former CIS Hollywood and Method Studios).  I am based in Los Angeles with 19 years professional experience in the industry (film, television and other media).  I have 10 years professional experience with Nuke.  For much of the first half of my career I was a 3D generalist and TD -- as such, I have previous professional experience with Maya, as well as many other (now-defunct) 3D (and 2D) applications. I also have some on-set supervisory experience, as well as experience in both feature-film development and production.

michael harbour

VFX / Image & Color Supervisor

I am a VFX / Image & Color Supervisor based in Los Angeles, CA.  I have over 25 years professional experience in the visual effects and film & television industry with extensive experience in visual effects supervision & pipeline development (management & supervision as well as application testing & development) Additionally, I have experience in both feature-film development, production, and post-production.  


Currently I am employed by Marvel Studios as a VFX / Image & Color Supervisor working under Michael Maloney, Sr. Manager of Image, Color & Lab for Disney/Marvel. Day to day duties include helping to build out full image & color pipelines for studio shows, working with productions & dailies facilities to troubleshoot issues, and working with the Production Technology Development team to plan and test applications for the overall studio image and color pipeline. In addition I am acting manager & VFX Supervisor for the VFX Lab, a subset of the Motion Picture Lab offering ‘as needed’ access to a visual effects service available to all Marvel productions, including their in-house Marketing & Finishing teams.

In my visual effect career, I was a founding member of Mammal Studios and a vfx/dfx supervisor there for its initial 7 years, assisting in the build-out of the studio’s technical pipeline, as well its business development pipeline, helping to establish relationships with Marvel Studios, Netflix, (the former) 20th Century Fox, and Sony Pictures among others.

I have also worked in visual effects as supervisor, artist & technician for many industry-leading houses, past and present, including Digital Domain, Double Negative, Method Studios, Pixomondo, Rhythm & Hues, Cinesite, Sony Pictures Imageworks, Dreamquest Images.

I have extensive experience in film & television development, production & post production. After graduating USC, I began my career as an Intern at Silver Pictures (development), then as a vault technician at The Post Group & was one of the founding members of the independent production company, Three-Headed-Monster, under representation with Endeavor Talent Agency.  While at THM I wrote & produced various short, feature & documentary films, some of which were screened at the SXSW & Sundance film festivals, and distributed on PBS Independent Lens.


I have hands-on experience with Nuke, Colorfront Transkoder & extensive experience with the film & television color pipeline, and a working comprehension of several 3D applications, Python, Unix and C/T/Bash-shell navigation/scripting as well as a solid understanding with the tools of the production (cameras, lighting, dailies, etc....) & post-production (editorial, visual effects, finishing, etc.)

For my most current list of credits, please refer to my imdb page, or my LinkedIn page. To download a copy of my resume and/or see a breakdown of my work on either of the reels (above), please refer to the resume and reel breakdown section of this website.