Howard Fine(II)
- Visual Effects
- Animation Department
Howard Fine was born and raised in Los Angeles. He studied writing and
literature at UCLA in the late 1980s. Spent his early professional life
drifting from one inconsequential job to another while trying to
support his writing habit. Enjoyed minor professional success
publishing short stories and poetry.
Fine was also active in the underground world of billboard manipulation and was featured in the acclaimed Dutch documentary series, "The Spirit of America", a five part series produced by the Dutch television network VPRO and directed by Bram van Splunteren. The series profiled the contemporary American cultural landscape, focusing on themes peculiar to America in the early 1990s. In addition to being featured in the episode dealing with tabloid-ism in popular culture, Fine was the L.A. producer for two of the episodes.
Fine's interest in graphic arts lead to working as an animator on some groundbreaking music videos and television commercials in the early 1990s. This experience prompted him to focus specifically on developing multimedia content for CD-Roms and later, the fledgling world wide web. Ultimately, these opportunities afforded Fine a position directing a 30 second animated interstitial, for Disney's One Saturday Morning (1997), called "Boss of the World".
Also during this time, he began designing on-screen computer playback graphics and animation for many shows, such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997), Angel (1999) and Chicago Hope (1994).
Combining his skills in the new media arts and experience in production, Fine was hired on the CBS show The District (2000) by Brenton Fletcher to help run an experimental (for network television anyway) department which operated as a kind of in-house visual effects department which oversaw the engineering of a complex system of video and computer playback for the show, in addition to creating all types of digital content which was both used in the show, and contributed to the post production process.
Fine is a member of the Motion Picture Screen Cartoonists Union, Local 839.
Fine was also active in the underground world of billboard manipulation and was featured in the acclaimed Dutch documentary series, "The Spirit of America", a five part series produced by the Dutch television network VPRO and directed by Bram van Splunteren. The series profiled the contemporary American cultural landscape, focusing on themes peculiar to America in the early 1990s. In addition to being featured in the episode dealing with tabloid-ism in popular culture, Fine was the L.A. producer for two of the episodes.
Fine's interest in graphic arts lead to working as an animator on some groundbreaking music videos and television commercials in the early 1990s. This experience prompted him to focus specifically on developing multimedia content for CD-Roms and later, the fledgling world wide web. Ultimately, these opportunities afforded Fine a position directing a 30 second animated interstitial, for Disney's One Saturday Morning (1997), called "Boss of the World".
Also during this time, he began designing on-screen computer playback graphics and animation for many shows, such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997), Angel (1999) and Chicago Hope (1994).
Combining his skills in the new media arts and experience in production, Fine was hired on the CBS show The District (2000) by Brenton Fletcher to help run an experimental (for network television anyway) department which operated as a kind of in-house visual effects department which oversaw the engineering of a complex system of video and computer playback for the show, in addition to creating all types of digital content which was both used in the show, and contributed to the post production process.
Fine is a member of the Motion Picture Screen Cartoonists Union, Local 839.