Joshua Crane

Joshua is a generalist visual artist, technician and educator. He first collaborated with Paul Lacombe on the Disney Channel virtual-set production of The Book Of Pooh, where he started as a compositor and quickly began supervising a crew of post-production editors and compositors. Joshua also worked closely with visual effects pioneer Douglas Trumbull for two decades, contributing to the design and development of numerous patents, mechanisms, and methods for achieving practical photographic effects and stereoscopic / high-frame-rate image acquisition, manipulation, and exhibition. Credits included feature film, The Tree of Life and commercial work for Apple, Showtime and Burger King. He has been a Visual Design and User Experience Design Educator for web apps, motion graphics and numerous installation projects. In addition to a passion for how new technologies advance storytelling, Joshua is also a figurative sculptor, Paragliding Instructor, adventure sports enthusiast, and mediocre electronic-music producer.