Dave Mehrman

I've spent 25 years moving through every stage of post-production — and what I do now is run the whole pipeline at once. Color grade, VFX compositing, editing, cleanup, and final delivery. One person, one seat, from set to screen.

I'm Creative Director at 11 Dollar Bill in Chicago, where I've led post-production for national brands and agencies for over a decade. That work has taken me from the grade suite to the set and back — supervising VFX on location, shaping creative strategy with agency partners, and finishing spots for brands like Red Bull, Toyota, Dyson, Zoom, BP, and HP.

My tools are DaVinci Resolve and After Effects, daily, at a deep level — not as a checkbox but as a genuine craft. I've been using After Effects since version 4.5. I know what these tools can do before I open them. Lately that also means integrating AI into real production workflows — RunwayML, ComfyUI, and generative tooling on live projects. Not experimenting. Building.