Brad Kalinoski

Brad Kalinoski, grew up in Huntington West Virginia believing for a longest time there was no way to fulfill his dream of working in the film industry. At first, he thought of completing a career in the medical field, but after almost 10 years working in 350 bed hospital, decided it was not his career choice, and not his dream. Deciding to take a chance, and as cliche as it sounds, he and his wife set out to find there dreams in Los Angeles. Two weeks after arriving in North Hollywood, he landed a job in the Visual Effect industry working with Dr. Mark Sagar (Academy of sciences Academy Award winner) and continued to work with other well known names like David Sosalla, John Knoll, just to name a few. Brad took that chance of moving to California to pursue his dream and his love of working in the movie industry as a digital artist. Today Brad, working in many aspects of Visual Effect, has been nominated for a BAFTA Award for his work on Black Swan, and Nominated for two VES Awards for one for Black Swan and one for Lost the final season as compositing supervisor. Today Brad continues his work as a freelance artist/supervisor under his company exodusfx from his office in North Carolina. Brad and his wife continue to operate and own there company outside Raleigh NC, providing various FX for film and television.