Carbon VFX welcomes Paul O’Beirne as Senior Producer to their New York office.
O’Beirne joins Carbon from an eight-year tenure as Senior VFX Producer at Smoke & Mirrors, where he worked on projects across all forms of media, including features, shorts, music videos, broadcast and commercials. Notable work includes The Dead Weather, directed by Jonathan Glazer; music videos for Feist “I Feel It All” and “1,2,3,4"; The New Tenants directed by Joachim Back which won an Oscar for Best Short Film; and Hannibal: The Pilot directed by David Slade. Commercially O'Beirne has worked on campaigns for major brands like Coca Cola, BMW, Burger King, AT&T and Budweiser; and for multi-national agencies including BBDO, Hill Holliday, DDB, Y&R, W+K, and McGarry Bowen.
O’Beirne, originally from the UK, got his start in the business as a runner at Rushes Post Production and from there he went on to Channel 4. While with Channel 4, Paul was involved in many areas of production and post production including scheduling, studio coordinating and producing. After 2 years with Channel 4, he went on to become a VFX producer with Smoke & Mirrors in London and shortly relocated with the core VFX team to open their New York studio.
Paul brings many years of VFX producing experience in the New York market to Carbon where he will help to strengthen their VFX services as they continue to grow. Carbon recently opened offices in Los Angeles as part of their expansion.