Rod M. Janusch

Rod M. Janusch is a practical visual effects technician and current employee at Kerner Optical, where he is working as a visual effects gaffer on . He previously worked at Industrial Light & Magic, from which Kerner Optical spawned.
After initially working with ILM on (1989) and (1990), Janusch freelanced as a rigging grip on such films as (1993), Nine Months, and Metro. He worked with electrician Tom Cloutier on these films; Janusch and Cloutier later became co-workers first at ILM and then at Kerner Optical, collaborating on many films together. In addition, Janusch worked for Sony Pictures Imageworks on (1996, featuring Brent Spiner) and (1998, featuring Bob Gunton and Harve Presnell).
Janusch was part of ILM's practical visual effects crew on the such films as , , (which featured Erick Avari, Freda Foh Shen, Cary-Hiroyuki, and David Warner), (2001, also with Cary-Hiroyuki, as well as Pat Healy, Glenn Morshower, Randy Oglesby, Leland Orser, Steve Rankin, Raphael Sbarge, and Michael Shamus Wiles), , (starring Eric Bana), Twisted (starring Ashley Judd), (2003) and (2006, both featuring Lee Arenberg). Following his work on the second Pirates movie, Janusch took work outside of ILM, including a stint as a best boy rigging gaffer on the 2006 film The Pursuit of Happyness. Fellow ILM employee Ian Chriss joined Janusch for this project.
After ILM's former physical production company began working independently as Kerner Optical, Janusch continued working with the newly-formed Kerner. His work for this company has thus far included Evan Almighty (which starred Jimmy Bennett), National Treasure: Book of Secrets (which featured Bruce Greenwood), and (which featured Alan Dale and Pasha Lychnikoff). He was also a gaffer on Eagle Eye, which was executive produced by Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, the writers and two of the executive producers of Star Trek.
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