IsaAlsup

Isa's Digital Career

Isa's career in computer graphics began in 1983 as the first full-time artist on the world's first commercial 2D paint and animation system, the Oscar-winning Aurora 100.  Soon after, Isa began working as lead artist on the first commercial 3D graphics system, the Bosch fgs 4000.  in 1986 Isa work with the the ground-breaking 3d program, Wavefront Advanced Visualizer. While working at The Post Group at this time, Isa championed and helped develop tools for linear compositing, field-rate compositing, particle systems, image processing and digital disk recording.

Over the last 30 years, Isa has worked as a CG Supervisor, Comp Supervisor, Green-Screen Supervisor, VFX Supervisor and VFX Producer.

His film credits include movies like Zoolander 2, Pan, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, Oz the Great and Powerful,  The Life of Pi,  Green Lantern, Batman and Robin, Mortal Kombat and The Shadow. His extensive film credits may be viewed on IMDb.

His broadcast work includes hundreds of TV projects including visual effects for shows such as Star Trek The Next Generation, Max Headroom, Knight Rider, and Airwolf.

In addition, he has an extensive background in motion graphics titles for film and television, and in advertising projects.

As a compositor, Isa helped with the product specification, design, testing and plug-in development for the  Wavefront (later Alias) Composer software, used on many features throughout the 1990’s.  He is well versed in compositing theory and methods: Nuke is his 10th compositing software tool to work with.  He currently works in NUKE® and After Effects®.

With an avid interest in the image making process, Isa majored in both graphic design and production management. He developed leadership training programs and writes about vfx leadership online at The Art of CG Supervision.

Isa has owned and run a boutique, supervised features, and built a vfx studio for Flight 33 Productions.  He continued on as VFX Supervisor-Producer for over 300 minutes of  HDTV visual effects produced by Flight 33 for the History Channel's The Universe and other  shows for History and Discovery.

Isa has taught and mentored artists in paint, animation, rotoscopy, CG, compositing and stereoscopy. He developed programs and gave vfx training at Prime Focus, GEON Studios, Tippet Studios, Flight 33 and The Post Group.  He was an instructor under Steve's program at Reliance Media Works.  He has been a NUKE® mentor with Steve for over two years.