David is a highly accomplished veteran in the visual effects industry and is one of the four founders of CoSA VFX. He is a pioneer of the visual effects industry, also co-founding production boutique, Motion City Films in 1987 which provided VFX, motion graphics and production services for commercials, music and corporate videos. Transitioning from compositing to CG, he segued into feature film visual effects working on notable projects, including The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005), Elektra (2005) and The Guardian (2006).

Among his many credits, David was nominated for a Primetime Emmy in 2014 for his work on Almost Human. He has also been nominated for two Visual Effects Society (VES) Awards — Almost Human in 2014 and Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. in 2015.

He is recently VFX Supervised the new Batman-based series, Gotham Knights on TheCW. Prior to this, he was also recently the visual effects supervisor for multiple hit projects including SyFy’s acclaimed series, Resident Alien, Candy, and Netflix’ Lucifer, for which he also functioned as a 2nd unit director.

John Cherniack has been working in visual effects for the last 16 years. He hails from a small town in New Hampshire where he got his start in graphic design at the age of 15. From there, he made his way to California to study animation and visual effects at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, graduating in 2005. He’s worked in advertising, film, and TV. His love for cameras and storytelling inspired him to focus more on VFX Supervision over the past 10 years.

Aside from VFX, John has always had a love for the outdoors and a thirst for speed. He grew up skateboarding and snowboarding, and will race anything with wheels and an engine. Nowadays when he's not supervising VFX for television, John volunteers his time as a Wildland Restoration Supervisor with TreePeople to help restore mountain forests in the Santa Monica Mountains.

Marina has been writing and discussing film for over 15 years, first on a personal blog, followed by a decade-long tenure on the now retired Row Three. In 2008, she joined the writing staff at Quiet Earth, becoming Editor-In-Chief in 2014, a role she still holds. Over the years, she has also produced and hosted a number of podcasts including Before the Dawn, a long-running podcast on the Twilight franchise, Girls on Pop, a podcast on film and popular entertainment from women’s perspective and After the Credits, bi-monthly film podcast with nearly 300 episodes.

Marina is a member of ACM and ACM SIGGRAPH, the Online Film Critics Society, the Alliance of Women Film Journalists, and the Visual Effects Society. She is the President of Spark CG Society and the Vancouver ACM SIGGRAPH chapter. She has also served on juries for several film festivals including DOXA, St. Louis International Film Festival, and the Whistler Film Festival. She joined the Spark CG Society in 2014.

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Sarina is a VFX Producer and has worked on Netflix’s Lucifer since Season 3. Her other credits include primetime shows such as Nancy Drew, The Last Ship, and Gotham. In addition to her production work, she is also currently teaching part time at the prestigious Art Center College of Design.

Sebastiano is an Emmy-award winning visual effects artist and supervisor and is currently the CG Supervisor on Lucifer season 6 (and part of season 5). He joined CoSA VFX in 2015 and has since contributed to shaping its CG department. Apart from his CG Supervisory roles, he was also a VFX Supervisor on Westworld season 3.

His passion for photography and computer graphics spontaneously led him through a career creating digital imagery for commercials, music videos, short and feature films, documentaries and TV shows. He is a creative problem-solver, patient teacher and an incurable technical perfectionist.

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