Matthew Steele Finley was born in Bozeman, Montana where he started his professional animation career at 19. He has a unique skill-set because every skill was acquired to specifically be a storyteller via filmmaking. When he started out, everything seemed off limits without massive budgets unless he learned visual FX. Like many young directors in Hollywood today, he developed those skills alongside his filmmaking and learned how they complimented his vision within any story. He knows how visual fx shouldn't be used as much as how it can be and has a solid grasp on the theory of post production to use every tool in the right doses at the right time.
He is passionate about bringing that expertise to other directors supervising and instructing on VFX on set. He has spent his life pushing the limits of what's possible entirely through creative use of computer effects in hopes that budget will never be a hindrance from letting the creative spirit thrive and imagination be truly limitless.
Lights, Camera, and the Shiny Stuff
Most people would say my job starts with a Martini.
Not the drink, the final shot of a film. The work of a video expert like me begins, after the wrap party.
Well, not quite.
My work starts when YOU have an idea. Because every idea requires the right people to pull it off.
You see I don't do this as a job, we do it because we love stories, we grew up with them and love being a part of them.
My role is looking at your idea and walking through the discovery process to empower you to execute that idea. We poke holes in the concepts until we find the perfect way to execute the idea that serves the goal of the project and gets your story seamlessly across.
I consult at the earliest stage to ensure you have a strategy in place for anything your story needs that can’t be execute practically without sacrificing quality, safety, or the part of your project that makes it fun or exciting.
I make danger more dangerous.
I make the best performances go together.
I make the story more cohesive.
I make the scene have no distractions.
I make sure that all the audience sees is the purity of your story.
Nothing more, (stuff gets cleaned up from a frame) nothing less.(stuff gets added to a scene to finish it)
It’s our honor to come along side your team and project to help you navigate the confusion and questions that come with Visual Effects and give you the confidence to power through any story, design, wardrobe, set, or safety challenge that arises from the moment the script is in first draft, to the moment the POST House delivers your print to theaters.
My consultation is free, but our expertise is priceless.
Because we are storytellers too, don’t just put your Visual Effects shots in our hands, put your story in our hands. We care about the details so you can package the big picture.
We don’t fix it in Post; we fix it in Development and perfect it in Post.
The One Ring Studios
We polish, so you shine.