Our Team

Jason Gem Webb - CTO

Jason Webb is an award-winning Web Designer /Multimedia and Visual Effects Designer with over 10 years of creative experience providing companies with top-level digital media solutions for strategic marketing.

Jason has his roots in multimedia designing for the web, where he has successfully developed corporate branding, from logo conceptualization and design to corporate identity solutions, marketing materials, and advertising campaigns. He has been a Lead Designer for various corporate companies in Internet Marketing, Corporate Business-to-Business (B2B) websites, and Entertainment websites.

Intent on going further in the industry, he launched the second phase of his career in Visual Effects for Film and Broadcast and worked his way up the ladder to being a lead Video Compositor. His first 3 years landed him at Cuppa Coffee Animation Studios in the video compositing department. There, he worked on such productions as the hit Disney children’s show, Jo-Jo’s Circus, as well as Little People, The Wrong Coast (MTv), Captain Mac, and recently, Life’s a Zoo (in production currently). Continuing on to film projects, he worked at IMAX supervising teams of up to 25 on such prestigious films as Harry Potter 5, Superman Returns, and the latest box office hit, Beowulf; he knows how to get the job done on tight time lines.

Jason now uses his broad knowledge of web, print, online marketing, video, and corporate branding aggressively to guide companies with a need for a corporate identity or online presence into leading positions in their industry through his foresight, management, and understanding of digital and visual communication.

Jason understands the importance of listening to the clients’ needs, combining past experience and teamwork to accomplish effective and powerful presentations that achieve their desired goals; reaching their target markets.

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Melissa Ruth - Client Support & Project Manager

Melissa’s creative background is wonderfully diverse in mediums, a true “multi-media” artist! She graduated from SheridanCollege’s world renowned Classical (drawn) Animation program and moved on to animating in Stop-Motion (think “Claymation”) at Toronto’s Cuppa Coffee Animation studio. She spent three years there on Disney’s popular children’s TV show, JoJo’s Circus, along with Mattel’s Little People. Also a Set and Prop builder, Melissa worked in such mediums as wood, metal, plastic, foam, silicone, clay, and whatever else it took to create the necessary “wild and wonderful” props for film or television. Her molding and casting skills have created everything from “dancing silicone bacon” and the “perfect” banana to decorative architectural features for homes!

Her work in the television and film industry also prompted her to learn Special Effects Makeup, along with additional training and experience in creating prosthetic appliances as well. She has worked as Head Makeup and Special Effects Artist on numerous productions, including the new “Indie” webseries (TV online), Team Epic (http://www.teamepic.tv), where her talents were put to work creating superheros of all extremes. Adding to her cinematic and theatrical background, Melissa also worked for Mirvish Productions’ Wardrobe Department, sewing costumes for the Toronto and Los Angeles productions of mega-hits, The Lion King and Mama Mia.

Melissa’s interest in different mediums also led her to enter the digital realm, learning to use high-end digital special-effects and editing programs to create solutions for those projects too dangerous, expensive, or impractical to create in physical form.

These diverse skills led her to team up with Jason to become Gemini Films, which has been providing creative solutions to the Toronto area since 2006. Now, since Melissa grew up in Grey-Bruce, Melissa and Jason have come back to the area to offer their clients an all-in-one professional resource for creating unique business and marketing solutions.

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Gustavo Fernandes // 3D VFX Supervisor

Work Experience:

Sundog Films. Toronto, Ontario, CANADA. www.sundogfilms.ca/
3D animation, character setup, character rigging, character animation, rendering and copositing.
Left Behind WW3: Feature film. Responsible for cg explosions, fire, dust, smoke, particles texturing, lighting and rendering.
It’s Me Gerald: TV Show opening. Responsible for rendering and final output for composting.
Panasonic VIERA: Commercial. Responsible for all cg elements in the first 16 seconds.
R&D in Maya fluids, cloth, partilces, and rendering with Mental Ray and Renderman.

Matrix Post. Toronto, Ontario, CANADA. www.matrixpost.com/
3D animation, logo tretement, logo design, character setup, character rigging, character animation, rendering, copositing, broadcast, graphic and web design.

Idea Immagine . Sao Paulo, BRASIL.
www.idea-immagine.com.br/
3D animation, logo tretament, logo design, character setup, character rigging, character animation, rendering, copositing, broadcast, graphic and web design.

Big Studios Animation. Toronto, Ontario, CANADA.
www.bigstudios.com/
Intership. 3D artist,and Graphic Designer. Job
description: Modeling, animation, special effects, rendering and compositing for broadcast design.

portfolio site: http://www.retro3d.net/

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Tim Gillespie / /FinalCut Pro Digital Video Editor

Education: Audio Visual and Multi-Media Production Technician, Seneca College, School of Communication Arts
Recipient of the AVP 2000, Best Animation Award. Course included Video Editing, Audio Engineering, Television Production, Corporate Theater Production, Multi-media Production (including web design, 2D graphics for Television and animation.)

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Tommy Adeniyi // Flash/php/asp Programmer/ Database Dev

Education: International Academy of Design (2001) - Digital Multimedia Design

BIO:Tommy Adeniyi is a multimedia design/ developer with a strong background in flash and Actionscript programming.

Tommy has worked on various multimedia pieces and professional sites in his experience including interactive and hybrid cd-roms, presentations, games, animations and websites including a web portal for the “United States National Guard”. His experience enables him to be a diverse developer allowing him to work freely across different types of multimedia projects using a wide range of development programs to deliver custom interactive multimedia pieces across multiple platforms. Among other things, he is also currently learning database development using ASP technology to further broaden his skill set and to make him a more rounded developer.

portfolio site: www.webfacemedia.com

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