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Bryant Reif is an award winning artist with over twenty years of experience in visual effects. Bryant is proficient in all aspects of visual effects post production from bidding phase though delivery, including creative treatment, pre-production and previs, on set supervision, team building and management and 3D/2D production. An adept problem solver, he excels at finding creative and innovative solutions to challenges.

Bryant had always been interested in computers and art. His first “computer animation” was a 2D animation of a Space Shuttle launch written in BASIC on an Apple Iic in 1985 when he was 11 years old. Many years later Bryant studied Telecommunication Media Arts at Michigan State University with a focus on film and video production. While at MSU, Bryant helped introduce 3D graphics and animation to the University's cable channel, becoming one of the first to do so. After graduating magna cum laude from MSU in 1995, Bryant was quickly hired by local production companies looking to add advanced 3D animation to their offerings.

Before long Bryant captured the attention of fledgling visual effects studio Computer Cafe (CafeFX) in Santa Maria, California.  Bryant was hired to add his character animation talent to their work on the Disney film "Flubber" and other projects.  After more than a year working on feature films at Computer Cafe, Bryant moved to Los Angeles to join visual effects start-up company Station X Studios as their first artist hire.  Here Bryant was given lead, and eventually supervisor, roles in several television commercials and feature films.

In 2000, Bryant helped co-found Barbed Wire FX, a small boutique visual effects studio in Santa Monica.  There he worked with various clients including Electronic Arts, Chevrolet, Franklin Templeton, Cricket Communications and Haagen-Dazs, and various agencies and filmmakers including BBDO, Dentsu, McCann Erickson and Oliver Stone.  After dissolving his partnership in Barbed Wire FX, Bryant joined Creo Collective in Santa Monica as CG Supervisor working on commercials and music videos.  At Creo Bryant worked with many clients including Microsoft, Volvo and Sprint, and such musical acts as Celine Dion, Shania Twain and N.E.R.D.

Bryant rejoined CafeFX in 2004 as DFX/CG supervisor in their feature film division working on the films "Memoirs of a Geisha" and "The Aviator".  After the completion of Geisha, Bryant was recruited by RIOT Santa Monica to join as CG supervisor in their commercials division.  Here Bryant was responsible for the supervision of numerous television commercials for clients such as Disney, Dodge, Target, Kraft, Nutrigrain, Sony and Gillette.

In 2010 Bryant was brought in to develop and lead a visual effects department for King and Country, a small commercial production company located in Santa Monica. He helped design the hardware and software and also develop the pipeline and code custom tools necessary for tackling high-end commercial visual effects work. As the in-house VFX supervisor, Bryant was responsible for managing the visual effects on all their commercial productions. Since 2012, in addition to supervising visual effects on commercials as a freelancer, Bryant has added consulting work helping companies expand their capabilities to include visual effects.