VFX Artist, Brickyard VFX
Jimi Simmons’ VFX career started in 1982 at One Pass Film & Video in San Francisco helping to build King Street Studios, a state-of-the-art sound and film stage. After several years of production, he moved to the post side, bringing his passion and experience to visual effects.
In 1990, Jimi joined Western Images in SF where he would later become VP/Director of Visual Effects and create a client base that would read like a who’s who of Bay Area directors and production companies: Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, Philip Kaufman, Spaz Willims and Mark Dippe, as well as Colossal Pictures and Industrial Light & Magic. This work would garner him 2 Emmy nominations for the Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, and several film credits: Spawn, Men in Black, Rising Sun and Star Wars: Episode 1.
After leaving Western Images, fate brought him to Boston. One night after a freelance session Brickyard VFX founder Dave Waller showed up in Jimi’s Flame suite with a job offer and a bottle of tequila, and the rest is history!