Growing up in a small town in Northern California as a traditional artist, Janelle Croshaw soon discovered how to create art on a computer. While taking graphic design courses at a junior college, Janelle was offered an internship where she learned the craft as a 3D Generalist.

As Janelle’s experience began to diversify, her career was taking off – having now worked for some of the greatest studios in the business including ILM, Digital Domain, Method and Zoic to name a few. Her portfolio spans across episodic television, commercials, music videos and eventually film. She learned to wear many hats as a generalist but soon discovered a natural fit and chose her specialty in Compositing.

Janelle’s credits include feature films such as Cowboys and Aliens, TRON, Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Zodiac; Commercials for Motorola, Lexus and American Express; and Music Videos for Justin Timberlake, Aerosmith and Nine Inch Nails.

Janelle’s work has been recognized with several Awards and Nominations including:

• 2009 VES Award-Best compositing in a feature film for Benjamin Button
• 2008 VES Nomination-Best Supporting visual effects for Zodiac
• 2008 VES Nomination-Best Environment for Zodiac
• 2006 VES Nomination-Outstanding Environment Music Video NIN-Only
• 2006 VES Nomination-Outstanding Environment commercial Motorola Pebl
• 2006 VES Nomination-Outstanding visual effects commercial Motorola Pebl
• 2003 Much Music Awards, Video of the year, Finger Eleven, One thing