Neil Burger aka 🍔 Food Director
Neil Burger (aka 🍔) is the go-to Tabletop Director in Chicago for any motion and stills. VFX Driven? Pretty Food? Designer Drinks? Recipe Videos? 1:1’s,9:16’s & 4:5’s?
Jon Jamison
Head of Post + Technical Director
Capturing his imagination in visual forms of storytelling and animation became Jon Jamison’s passion from a young age. His experience and skill sets earned him positions on feature film productions and post-production heralded by Hollywood studios such as Warner Bros., 20thCentury Fox, and Sony Imageworks. His craft in Visual Effects has been seen by millions on projects such as four time Academy Award winner Life of Pi, the critically acclaimed Netflix Original Series Sense8, and the international box office record break hit Captain America: Civil War. The experience garnered from working in the film and commercial industry over the last decade, in all facets of the production process, has helped hone and shape his ideas for innovative original content.
Derek Goldsmith
Owner and EP - CMP was started as a solution for our design and vfx studio calls that asked for us to shoot more of the content for them. The real “nerdy and tricky stuff” was our bread and butter and to this day we push the limits on-set and in post. We love efficient methodology and investing in whats on the screen.
Executive Producer with 10+ years running live action production that focused on designed and vfx focused creative. I’ve had the opportunity to produce over 1000 commercials and three feature movies in the 900k to 4M range (VFX Post Producer) = live action and/or post production.
Myself and CMP love producing, problem solving, bidding, strategy and being on set with the crew. We have a passion for creating and growing our crew with diverse tech jobs and a healthy encouragement to grow them into DP’s, Directors, Art Department Rock Stars, etc.
Jens Wirtzfeld
Jens Wirtzfeld aka “Ze German” is a breakout young director + cinematographer with a healthy obsession in pre-visualization and advancing the creative idea. Hope you enjoy his work and seeing the brands through the lens of “Ze German”.
Neil Burger - Beverage Director
Neil Burger (aka 🍔) - the food director you know, is ALSO the go-to tabletop director for beverages. Beer, new spirit brand🍸, craft cocktail as a GIF and 1:1mp4? Recipe & mixology videos? - lets make something cool! And these shoots are so fun!
Photography & Retouching
We specialize in matching the best still photographer with our motion shoots so you can tackle the print needs at the same time. After the shoot we can help with creative retouching, CG for Print, Prototypes & Banners.
“MoMo” - Pet Director
MoMo is the #1 director for pets! Why? MoMo’s always loved two things; film & animals. Mo’s also great at collaborating with the client and agency creatives to make sure we individualizing the work for this pet brand so they own that category and look. Might be locations, pet, color of art dept, post partners, colorist selection, dog and breed training work - lets geek out! She also continues to collaborate into editorial, color, and post. #freethework
Stages
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The Pet Set - CMP Stage North
The Tabletop Stage - CMP Stage West
Just email us if you need one of our stages. We’re happy to also discuss opening the stage doors to your VFX or Food team if we’re able - just call and we can geek out.