HEATH SAUNDERS

Realtime VFX & live-event visuals.

I'm the Notch Lead at Silent Partners Studio (since 2017), where I help design and run generative, interactive, and media-server-driven visuals for stages, screens, and installations, built with Notch, TouchDesigner, Disguise, Cinema 4D, Unreal, and After Effects.

My background is in cinematography and editing - camera, lighting, and composition, plus the timing, pacing, and compositing I sharpened cutting music videos. The physical and the virtual inform each other: I bring real-world camera and lighting instincts to virtual scenes to keep them grounded and believable, and the realtime work feeds back the other way, each makes the other stronger.

Before my realtime Notch work and my time with SPS, I shot and cut my first feature (Maestro, following Grammy-winning conductor Paavo Järvi) and made work with artists like Katy Perry, The Glitch Mob, The Eagles, Walk the Moon, and Stephen King — including early tour-visual work that pulled me toward live events.

Outside of client work I build small browser tools for the craft → Tools

Realtime / VFX:

Realtime and rendered content pipelines, design stage through delivery.

Notch (design, integration, programming)

Disguise (integration, programming)

TouchDesigner (design, integration, programming)

Cinema 4D (realtime optimization,UV)

After Effects (design, workflows)

Unreal Engine (design, integration, programming)

Edit / Post Workflows:

Specializing in Ableton, After Effects, Notch, Premiere, Resolve, and Unreal pipelines.