Steven M. Blasini

Steven has dreamed of a career in Visual Effects since the age of 7. His older brother Tony seeded and fed his yearning by taking him to see most of the effects laden films of the time. Determined to bring his dream to life using any and all tools at his disposal, young Steven shot Super 8 movies with "visual effects" created using cardboard, Styrofoam and any other piece of cool looking "junk" he could find. Back then there were no Computer Generated effects and living in New York there was no access to the field. So through trial and error (and a bit of fate sprinkled in) he set himself up in the computer industry where he started his own successful computer consulting firm. Jurassic Park then came along and bridged the worlds of Computers and Visual Effects creating the "backdoor" he needed.

In 1998, after the unexpected demise of his 17 year marriage, he sold his computer business, packed his minivan with everything he owned and drove cross country to establish a new life in the Dream City of Los Angeles. Two months later he landed a job as an animator in a small independent film studio where he advanced in short time to Visual Effects Supervisor and Department Head.

In 2000 he met the woman of his dreams, married her in 2001 and together they founded a rapidly growing Visual Effects and Graphics Design company, BFX Imageworks. So the dream he had at the age of 7 came true some 30 years later. Never give up. Hold on tight to your dreams and never let them go. They DO come true!

Steven is a member of the Television Academy in the Special Visual Effects Peer Group and the Visual Effects Society and serves in the Awards Committee, Technical Committee, Archival Committee and the Annual Meeting Committee.