Marc Bourbonnais

As an aspiring digital effects artist, technical enthusiast, project and operations manager or VFX studio founder and executive producer, Marc has fully applied himself to numerous aspects of visual effects and digital animation production during the past 30 years on over 60 feature films, series and television projects. His structured approach to production challenges made him an experienced problem-solver and pipeline expert for demanding digital productions. He later developed skills in company management, business financing, government tax credits and corporate relations. He also participated in numerous conferences as a featured speaker around the globe.

At the start of his career as a 3D artist and later as a senior technical artist, he helped develop post-production pipelines to bring forward intricate visual effects, early stereoscopic work-flows and high-volume deliveries on many feature films. Putting his focus and creative energy on reshaping business practices in the digital effects and animation industry, he contributed to the initial structure of the large scale digital hub in Montreal, Modus FX. Marc co-founded Modus FX in 2007 and took the role of President, with a desire to set up its base as a high-end digital effects and animation studio, with subsidiaries in training, R&D and production investment in development.

He then worked in the CG animation field, as Head of Technology and later as Chief Operations Officer in a large animation studio, contributing to the development of real-time pipelines in large-scale animation series projects.