Steven M. Blasini

In 2004 he and his wife, Bennique, won the prestigious Telly Award in the 25th Annual Telly Awards Competition as well as the Award Of Excellence in the 2004 Videographer Awards for an in-house Music Video produced by their company BFX Imageworks.

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.