Sam O'Hare

I studied architecture at The Universty of Greenwich, and had a brief class in 3ds Viz 1 during my first year. I fell in love with CG and taught myself the software over the course of my degree.

I worked in architectural visualisation for 5 years, doing photoreal CG and compositing on stills, and directing and doing VFX on short films. My last 3 years in the field were with Uniform, where we won several awards for our work.

In 2008  I moved to New York, and started working as a freelancer in vfx for commercials, supervising and leading jobs. In 2010 I started directing commercials, and in 2011 co-founded Parachute, a VFX and finishing company to be able to have control over the process and pipeline of the VFX for my own directing jobs and for other directors.

In 2018, Parachute was acquired by Chimney Group, and I started working in episodic and feature films alongside the commercial work.

In 2022 I moved onto the production side as a VFX Supervisor, working in features and episodic.

Role with the VES

I'm the Co-Treasurer of the NY chapter.