Our Team
DERMOT SHANE - VFX Supervisor
Dermot Shane has traveled the road from documentary and music videos to focus on postproduction and effects work. He has won three Much Music awards, two for director of the year, and one for editing. His documentary film Letters from Brazil, which he co-produced, directed, shot and edited, was nominated for a Gemini award. He shifted his focus in the early 90’s to being a part of the core team that created the groundbreaking 3D series ReBoot! – the first long form computer animation ever created. He helped form the tools and define the workflow that made this entire medium possible. This team has been given a place in the Smithsonian Institute in recognition of the role played in the invention of this new genre. He has since consulted, designed and built several high tech CGI facilities around the world in Seoul, Korea, Shanghai, China and Vancouver, BC. He has been highly involved with development of the tools we use, having completed beta site with many leading edge technologies and corporations. These corporations include Sony, Discreet Logic, Avid, Softimage, Alias Wavefront, among others, and has served on the CFTPA’s committee to define high definition broadcasting in Canada. Dermot has also had a hand in creating the workflow and technology for one of the first high definition shows – Please Don’t Eat The Kids. He was the Visual effects supervisor and high definition consultant on the series Flatland shot and effects work done in Shanghai, China.
Dermot manages the day-to-day postproduction operations and facility at Sepia Films. His expertise and extensive knowledge of our equipment and cutting edge technology give Sepia a considerable post production advantage, enabling Sepia to take a film through full video post production and color correction up to DI assembly and film-out ready. With our video post-production and visual effects in house, considerable savings and control over product quality are generated. All visual effects for Sepia's recent features Partition and Civic Duty were generated by Dermot in house.
Dermot rounds out the Sepia team by providing the technical and post production expertise vital to feature film production and delivery as well as overseeing the digital visual effects arm of the company and enabling the company to generate visual effects and 3D animation as well as many other post production functions in house.