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Joseph Ibrahim

Creative Technologist & Senior Visual Effects Artist.

Sixteen years figuring out how light behaves — through cameras, through render engines, and now through diffusion models. The substrate keeps changing; the work hasn’t. How does a frame feel inevitable? What makes an image hold up? Why does this version land and that one doesn’t?

I build tools so other artists can spend their time on those questions instead of fighting the pipeline. I keep shooting film, because the camera trains the eye in ways nothing else does. I mentor through ACCESS:VFX, and contribute enthusiastically to the ComfyUI community at Zerospace Brooklyn.

Most of the tools here came out of teaching someone else how to do something I’d built three times. The pattern: solve it badly once, ship it, watch where it breaks, then write the version that doesn’t. Documentation isn’t an afterthought — it’s how a workflow survives in production.

Brooklyn-based. Available for projects.

Studios

  • MPC Montreal
  • Framestore
  • The Mill
  • Apple Marcom
  • Hornet Animation
  • Buck
  • Brand New School
  • Method Studios
  • Imaginary Forces

Select Clients

  • Walt Disney Pictures
  • Apple
  • Nike
  • Warner Bros. / LEGO
  • Hershey
  • Mac Miller Estate

Notable Projects

  • Disney's Cinderella (2015)
  • Mac Miller: Balloonerism
  • 100+ Brand Commercials
  • Lego Dimensions Cinematics

Achievements

  • 750+ Photography Assignments
  • HDAs Adopted by 3 Studios
  • Mentored 6 Junior Artists
  • Access:VFX Mentor

Offline Rendering

  • Sidefx Houdini
  • Cinema 4D
  • Solaris / USD
  • Karma XPU
  • Katana
  • Renderman
  • Nuke
  • Python

Real-time

  • Unreal Engine 5
  • Lumen
  • Nanite
  • Path Tracing
  • Niagara VFX

AI / Experimental

  • ComfyUI
  • Stable Diffusion
  • ControlNet
  • LoRAs
  • MCP
  • Medium Format Photography
  • Film Lighting Techniques

Available for freelance, consulting, and full-time opportunities.

Lighting TDLook DevelopmentReal-time RenderingProcedural WorkflowsUSD PipelineAI IntegrationTool DevelopmentMentorship
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