From building worlds on Hollywood soundstages ~ to enhancing the perfect location

From Virtual shoots on Volume Stages powered by Unreal Engine ~ to exquisite miniatures

All created with soulful style and creative precision…

Select Directors:

David Gelb, ®JONES, Rad-ish, Angus Wall, Kinka Usher, Taika Waititi, Carolyn Chen, Adam Pertofsky, Henrik Hansen

Select Production Companies:

Framestore, Stink Films, Hungry Man, RSA, Gorgeous, Rock Paper Scissors, Fancy Content, Logan, Park Pictures 

Select Clients:

Lucas Film, Pepsi, Nike, Lexus, Marvel, Target, Amazon, Google, Delta, Beyoncé, The Oscars

AWARDS

Emmy Winner for 2023-2024 Outstanding Art Direction/Set Decoration/Scenic Design

Stan Lee Disney+ / Marvel 

Click Here to see Acceptance Speech

Hunter & David Gelb

THE STORY OF HUNTER

Early days were spent at the groundbreaking Bay Area production company Colossal Pictures.  It was a magical era in commercial filmmaking and set the tone for his creative journey…From model-making with his Mythbuster buddies Jamie and Adam, to pyrotechnics on through to art direction and design, he became well versed in a style that encompasses live-action, stop-motion, motion control, SFX and CGI. 

Any project will be well served by his arsenal of skills. Every set is designed thoughtfully utilizing light, color and shapes to trigger emotional responses in the viewers’ senses and capture the emotional beat of a story. 

He has lived in Hollywood since 2000 and loves to travel and work in exotic and not-so-exotic destinations.

Other forays have included Model Effects Head on feature film James and the Giant Peach to a secret project with Ben Stiller as well as directing the stage and lighting for madcap burlesque and Mexican wrestling show

As of late, Hunter has been delving into XR and AR Metaverse experiences, as well as exploring the healing applications of immersive technology. Still, he considers one of the most beautiful sequences he has ever created to be a flaming Icarus feather landing in a black ocean.

He is known for crewing his department with bulletproof players fondly known as “the Art Ninjas”

and considers his decorator and scenic artists treasured keys to the universe.

Hunter & Decorator Kat Van de Bosch

Scenic Artist Michael David Thomas

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A Creative Journey

Perhaps it had happened before, but Hunter’s first memory of falling into a painting was as a child outside of Boston when he fell into James McNeill Whistler’s, Arrangement in Black and Brown: The Fur Jacket, 1877, oil on canvas. 

A possible attempt to escape his Puritanical surroundings led him to study ethnomusicology with a focus on ritual possession at Hampshire College.  Of all the skills he has accrued throughout decades of filmmaking, his most treasured and cultivated, is to recognize how something honestly makes him feel.

Unbeknownst to a young Hunter as he walked into the Clyfford Still room in Buffalo’s Albright-Knox Museum, this pioneer of the Abstract Expressionists and one of the foremost Color Painters had stipulated that his work must hang solo in a room.  Hunter was profoundly and instinctively awoken by Still and his philosophy: “I never wanted color to be color. I never wanted texture to be texture, or images to becomes shapes. I wanted them all to fuse together in a living spirit.” 

In the early 90’s a rock and roll band spirited Hunter away to San Francisco, where he promptly fell into Picasso’s Still Life With Skull, Leeks and Pitcher, oil on canvas, 1945, at the Palace of the Legion of Honor. 

Recently at his mother’s favorite haunt in Boston, the Ava Gardner Museum, he fell into John Singer Sargent’s El Jaleo, 1882, oil on canvas.

He looks forward to falling into your next project…

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