FREELANCE FLAME ARTIST
Freelance Finishing & VFX using Autodesk Flame
Sole Flame Artist on 2x Emmy Winning HBO Doc "Going Clear"
WORK EXPERIENCE
Feb 2018 - Present : Freelance Flame Artist at
Artjail
Bindery, Bonfire, Buck
Coffee&TV, CRAFT WW
DriveThru.TV
Friendshop
Harbor Picture Company
Industrial Color
LVLY
Method Studios, The Mill, MPC, Mr Wolf
Preymaker
Scholar Studios, Shepard VFX
Taylor James
Uppercut
Vayner Media, VCCP
Oct 2014 - Feb 2018 : Flame Artist/Flame Assist at Artjail
2013 - 2014 : Freelance Smoke Artist
2010 - 2013 : DP/Photographer with ADVcollective
2008 - 2010 : Photo Assistant, Lighting Assistant for various Artists;
Mario Testino - Lighting assistant
Alexander Neumann - 1st assistant & lighting, Christopher Griffith - 2nd Assistant, Chase Jarvis - PA 3rd assistant
EDUCATION
Degree in Commercial Photography & an Associate of Arts from Seattle Central College, 2008
Atacama Desert, Chile circa 2024 6x7 Kodak Porta ©2025 Ben Vaccaro