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Please contract me using the form to the right or, if you prefer, you may reach me by my cell (323) 547-0702 or my email: michaelharbour@gmail.com.


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.

Winter 2017 reel. Includes our work for all formats.

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.

This is the 2013 vfx (visual effects) compositing demo reel for Michael Harbour.

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.