Digital motion
picture and post-production company PostWorks Los Angeles
today announced the hiring of two veteran pioneers of
digital technologies for key PostWorks LA staff positions.
Effective immediately, PostWorks LA's President Mike
Doggett has named Jim Houston as Senior Vice President,
Imaging, and Jeff Quinn as Vice President, Engineering.
"Jim is a well known leader in the field of digital
imaging technology, and Jeff has been an integral player
in helping leading filmmakers and major studios leverage
the world's most advanced technologies," Doggett said.
"Jim and Jeff will play key roles as we continue to
develop future looking digital solutions on behalf of our
customers. We are very proud to welcome each of them
aboard."
Jim Houston brings over 25 years of experience as a
pioneer in the application of digital imaging technology
and computer graphics to his new position with PostWorks
LA. He began his career in 1986 at Walt Disney Feature
Animation as a Technology Guru and ultimately a Senior
Technical Director. At Disney, his development of the
first digital production system for animated features
earned him a 1992 Academy Science and Engineering Award.
Over the years that followed, he held positions as VP
Digital Production for Sony Pictures Imageworks (where
he helped to grow the company during its first 20 visual
effects and animation projects), Digital Effects
Supervisor and Head of CGI for Pacific Ocean Post, and
Producer and Head of Film Projects for Mainframe
Entertainment. At Pacific Title and Art Studios, during
the company's transition to digital offerings, Houston
was Head of Image Quality and Digital Mastering, where
he developed proprietary color management, DI, digital
cinema mastering, digital subtitling and captioning
capabilities - as well as a digital YCM archival
separation process which in 2007 earned him his second
Academy Science and Engineering Award.
Houston is currently the Chair of the Academy of Motion
Pictures Image Interchange Framework committee, a
project of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and
Sciences' Science and Technology Council to improve
workflows and color management for digital productions.
An active member of ACM SIGGRAPH and the American
Society of Cinematographers' Technology Committee, he
has also been a key contributor to SMPTE standards
projects for more than 20 years.
Jeff Quinn brings over 20 years of post-production
engineering expertise to his new position with
PostWorks, after spending the past 11 years at Ascent
Media fulfilling divisional roles of Chief Engineer,
Director of Engineering and other senior engineering
positions. His many accomplishments with Ascent include
serving as the senior engineering design and
implementation team member for the 100,000 square foot
Ascent Media Digital Media Distribution Center, which
opened in 2006 as the industry's largest, most
technologically advanced independent digital post-
production network and distribution facility. Quinn
specifically oversaw multi-resolution mastering and
imaging workflows for the new facility, which
consolidated eight existing post-production facilities
under one roof.
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