Robert House

Rob was a successful Commercial Artist /Art Director in the 1980's in Michigan (Princing&Ewend Associates) when he met Phil Beffrey, the founder of the software company Digital Arts (one of Pixar's first cross-platform developers for Renderman software). As an avid experimenter in Basic and 6502 assembly languages, Rob was found to be a good fit for the creative software startup. He left the field of Advertising to join Phil at Paragraphics, an animation venture which would serve West Coast clients such as Bruce Lyon of Lyon | Lamb, as well as regional commercial clients.

In 1993, tech entrepreneur Bo Ferger invited Rob to join Reel Effects, a Los Angeles-based subcontractor to Warner Bros Animation and vendor of visual effects services, later to be absorbed by WB as Warner Digital Studios.

In 1998, with the support of Tim Sarnoff, Rob was recruited by Sony Pictures Imageworks , where he served for many years as Compositor, Effects Animator, Lighter, Previs Animator and ultimately Character Effects TD.

In 2014, Rob began freelancing at studios such as Framestore, MPC, The Mill, Digital Domain, and again at Sony. He joined DreamWorks Feature Animation in 2018, and began freelancing again in 2024.