Visual effects, production, post finishing, design and interactive studio Guerilla FX has expanded its team with the addition of creative director/effects supervisor/director John Bair and exec producer Vivian Connolly. Both Bair and Connolly come to Guerilla from Edgeworx in New York, where they worked as a team. In their new roles, they will be concentrating their energies primarily on feature film effects and titles, medium- and long-format broadcast effects and titles, and broadcast design.
Since joining the Guerilla FX crew, Bair and Connolly have begun creating visual effects for John Patrick Shanley’s feature, Doubt, and visual effects and titles for the features New York I Love You and The Messenger. They are also working on Earth 2100, a 2-hour ABC primetime special about the state of the planet in the year 2100, for which Guerilla will be producing one-third of the content.
Bair spent the last decade as creative director at Edgeworx, where his credits as animation supervisor include Prehistoric Megastorms and The Universe for History Channel, and such NOVA docs as Judgment Day, Marathon Challenge, Saved by the Sun, Monster of the Milky Way, Building on Ground Zero, Newton’s Dark Secrets, Origins and The Elegant Universe. He was design and animation supervisor for The War (Florentine Films/Ken Burns); animation director on Rx for Survival (PBS); CG animator/supervisor for Peter Jennings Reporting: UFOs’Seeing Is Believing (ABC); and creative director for SeeMore’s Playhouse 2006-2008 (APT).
Connolly, a former actress turned television and film producer and children’s story writer, was head of production at Edgeworx. For the last two and a half years, she oversaw all production and worked closely with Bair on projects including Bret Morgan’s animated doc Chicago 10 and the TV projects The Real Housewives of NY (Bravo), Prehistoric Megastorms (History), The Universe (History), Judgment Day (NOVA), Fractals: Hunting the Hidden Dimension (NOVA), Marathon Challenge (NOVA), History Detectives (PBS), and Saturday Night Live in the ’90s: Pop Culture Nation (NBC), among others.
