Visual Effects · 3D · Compositing · GenAI · Mentorship
I work across visual effects, compositing, supervision, and teaching, with a focus on visual judgment and decision-making under real constraints.
I make images. I supervise work. And I teach people how to think clearly when images have to hold together in production, not just look good in isolation.
My career has spanned production environments, accredited post-secondary education, independent training, and compliance-driven instructional contexts. Across all of them, the problem has been consistent: people are taught tools, but not how decisions compound, fail, or recover under pressure.
That gap is where my work lives.
Over the years, I’ve taught learners aged 18 to 60 from over 44 countries, spanning backgrounds that include pre-med students, former lawyers, engineers, and career-switchers with no technical foundation. Teaching across that range forces clarity. You can’t rely on style, jargon, or imitation. You have to teach judgment.
Alongside teaching, I’ve supervised compositing work and evaluated shots within real production structures, where instructional theory either survives contact with reality or exposes itself immediately. That feedback loop between teaching and supervision shapes how I design curricula, give notes, and assess quality.
This site documents that practice.
It includes authored visual work, supervised outcomes, teaching methodology, and long-form writing. Some of the work is individual. Some is collaborative. All of it reflects the same priorities: clarity, responsibility, and decisions that hold up when conditions are imperfect.
For those who want to engage more directly with this work, there are three ways to do so, depending on the level of structure and access required.
Independent learning and ongoing documentation of my teaching practice are published at HeyGanz.com, designed for self-directed study and long-term skill development.
Small-cohort, supervised visual effects training has been delivered through AlphaChromatica, a boutique training studio founded in 2023, focused on production-oriented instruction with direct supervision and curriculum ownership.
For artists seeking direct, unfiltered feedback, I also offer limited one-on-one mentorship, centered on shot evaluation, visual judgment, and career decision-making under real production constraints.
If you’re here because the work resonates, you already know which path makes sense.
I make images. I supervise work. And I teach people how to think clearly when images have to hold together in production, not just look good in isolation.
My career has spanned production environments, accredited post-secondary education, independent training, and compliance-driven instructional contexts. Across all of them, the problem has been consistent: people are taught tools, but not how decisions compound, fail, or recover under pressure.
That gap is where my work lives.
Over the years, I’ve taught learners aged 18 to 60 from over 44 countries, spanning backgrounds that include pre-med students, former lawyers, engineers, and career-switchers with no technical foundation. Teaching across that range forces clarity. You can’t rely on style, jargon, or imitation. You have to teach judgment.
Alongside teaching, I’ve supervised compositing work and evaluated shots within real production structures, where instructional theory either survives contact with reality or exposes itself immediately. That feedback loop between teaching and supervision shapes how I design curricula, give notes, and assess quality.
This site documents that practice.
It includes authored visual work, supervised outcomes, teaching methodology, and long-form writing. Some of the work is individual. Some is collaborative. All of it reflects the same priorities: clarity, responsibility, and decisions that hold up when conditions are imperfect.
For those who want to engage more directly with this work, there are three ways to do so, depending on the level of structure and access required.
Independent learning and ongoing documentation of my teaching practice are published at HeyGanz.com, designed for self-directed study and long-term skill development.
Small-cohort, supervised visual effects training has been delivered through AlphaChromatica, a boutique training studio founded in 2023, focused on production-oriented instruction with direct supervision and curriculum ownership.
For artists seeking direct, unfiltered feedback, I also offer limited one-on-one mentorship, centered on shot evaluation, visual judgment, and career decision-making under real production constraints.
If you’re here because the work resonates, you already know which path makes sense.