PETER HYOGUCHI
CEO

Peter Hyoguchi has just completed his fourth feature film, "The Tarot", an occult thriller which was shot using a mixture of traditional and virtual production techniques. 

Raised in Los Angeles by his mother, an animator at Hanna-Barbera Studios ("Scooby Doo"  and "The Flintstones"), Hyoguchi had the blessing of learning the craft of visual story-telling in the home and was creating his own cartoons by the time he was ten years-old. Peter then began his film career with a sci-fi short called “The Future’s Future” which won George Lucas’ Project 6 youth film festival in 1988.  The film was included in a special that aired on PBS. Two years later, he dropped out of high school after being awarded an art grant to direct his first feature film, an adaptation of “No Exit” by Jean-Paul Sartre at age seventeen. 

In his early twenties, Peter signed with an agent and started taking on writing assignments, including adapting a New York Times best-selling novel called "Shooting Elvis" and co-writing "The Waking" with sci-fi legend Ray Bradbury for director John Carpenter.  In 2001, he won Best Feature Film at both New York and San Francisco Independent Film Festivals for "First, Last and Deposit" which he wrote, shot and directed. The film has aired on IFC and Netflix.​

In 2012, Hyoguchi founded the VFX company Roninfilm which created CGI effects for the SyFy channel, including  "Lavalantula", "Spiders 3D" and the sci-fi pilot "The New Kind".

Last year, Peter directed the first Super Bowl spot to utilize virtual production. He is a two-time recipient of the Epic MegaGrant for “Gods of Mars” which utilized a new kind of virtual production pipeline with a team of Unreal Engine game designers and Oscar-winning visual effects artists whose credits include “Star Wars”, “X-Men”, “How to Train Your Dragon”, “Batman”, “The Dark Crystal” and “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom”.

Hyoguchi has taught filmmaking at UCLA Film and TV Extension, New York Film Academy, The Academy of Art University and FIDM. 

​Peter lives in San Marcos, Texas.

JOAN BeVaN Webb
​President

Webb brings extensive experience in business development, VC backing, representation and marketing. Her former clients include such notable figures as James Cameron, Oliver Stone, Doug Trumbull, Tim Burton, Coen Brothers, companies such as: IMAX, Pixar, Sony, DreamWorks, MGM, Disney and feature films: Shrek I, II & III; Toy Story; Lion King; and The Amazing Spider-Man.

David Stump
​VFX supervisor

ASC / Academy Award-Winning VFX Supervisor at Roninfilm/"Gods of Mars"

David Stump ASC is a working Director of Photography, Visual Effects Director of Photography, Visual Effects Supervisor, and Stereographer, (including both live action work and 2D to 3D conversion work), earning an Emmy Award, an Academy Award for Scientific and Technical Achievement, an IMAGO Technical Achievement Award and an International Cinematographers Guild Award.  His credits include projects like Little Fires Everywhere, The Morning Show, Skyfire, The Happytime Murders, American Gods, The Unwilling, Immortals, Quantum of Solace, Flight Plan, Fantastic Four, X-Men 1 & 2, Into the Blue, Garfield, Batman Forever, Hollow Man, Men of Honor, Deep Blue Sea, Stuart Little, The Sphere, Contact, Batman & Robin, Mars Attacks, Executive Decision, Stargate, and Free Willy, among many, many others.

He is currently chairman of both the Camera Committee and the Metadata Committee of the ASC Motion Imaging Technology Council. Under his guidance, the combined efforts of the Producers Guild of America and the American Society of Cinematographers produced both the ASC / PGA Camera Assessment Series, and the ASC / PGA Image Control Assessment Series, side by side comparisons of virtually all of the high end digital cinema cameras against film.

His extended credits include work in immersive media including circular and hemispherical environments, virtual cinematography of all kinds, virtual camera design, light field cinematography, multi camera photogrammetry, game engine integration, and immersive military training environment design.

David authored the book “Digital Cinematography – Fundamentals, Techniques and Workflows”, and is a contributing author to the “VES Handbook”.  He is also a RIS committee member setting VP and XR standards with SMPTE and mapping virtual lens coefficients for Unreal Engine, Cooke Optics, Arri, and Zeiss.

Kai Bzyl
​VIRTUAL PRODUCTION PRODUCER

Kai started at age 18 as a 3D and 2D Artist in the post-production industry. At 19 Bzyl produced the European High School Days in partnership with the German government, the city of Cologne and lead a team of 200 people. Kai has worked for RTL, SAT1, MTV, Sony Pictures, Warner Bros., Arri Studios and video game companies EA and Blue Box. He is a specialist in AR, VR, mixed reality, virtual production, VFX and computer games creation.

JETT GREEN
​MATTE PAINTing supervisor

Caroleen "Jett" Green has created rich, luminescent, and endlessly detailed matte paintings for film since 1984 when she began her career at Lucasfilm's, Industrial, Light and Magic. There she learned how to paint on glass along side the film industry’s greatest special effects masters.
Her long, notable career as a matte painter for both special effects and animation is matched by few, and her tireless support to every project, her professionalism, and her attention to detail have created a high demand for her work. Jett’s early credits include The Never Ending Story, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, and Star Trek.

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