Spitfire Studios

Nate's attraction to moving images began with a Fisher Price Movie Viewer and a cartridge of Disney's Lonesome Ghosts. His first foray into filmmaking resulted in a broken collarbone and the sobering realization that blowing things up could result in harsh prison time. With a clear view of what not to do, Nate decided to stay behind the camera and learn how to blow things up virtually. After graduating from The Savannah College of Art without a single felony conviction, Nate joined Primal Screen where he worked alongside future Spitfire Director Tripp Rhame, compositing many live action and stop motion projects. Under the Primal wing, Nate developed a sharp eye for detail and expanded his skill set immensely, working on a multitude of campaigns and racking up tons of prime time experience. In 2007 he went freelance and delved even deeper into the black art of live action compositing, pushing his work to the next level and making the seams invisible. If you can see the compositor's work, then they didn't do their job right. After many successful freelance projects with Spitfire, 2009 saw Nate jump onboard and take on the official title of "Chief Science Officer", heading up the Visual Effects and Compositing team. He daily reaffirms his commitment to produce stunning work, all the while making a huge dent into the coffee supply and interjecting random bits of seemingly useless knowledge in conversation and answering strange questions such as the atomic weight of Plutonium, which by the way is 244 in its natural state.