Ai LIVE: Tips and Insights into VFX Careers with Crafty Apesâ Chris LeDoux By: Rachel Handel Share This: And in this episode of AiLive, Crafty Apes co-founder and Senior VFX Supervisor Chris LeDoux discusses his career beginnings in Alaska and eventual move to California where he’s worked on films including La La Land, The Greatest Showman, Doctor Strange, and Captain America: Civil War. “The rush to production is a bit like a tidal wave,” LeDoux tells host E. Vincent Martinez. LeDoux started out by fine-tuning his skills in Adobe After Effects for a small company in Alaska. When a friend in California called and asked if he’d want to help with VFX for the movie Sin City, LeDoux packed up his car and made the drive to San Francisco. There, he discovered that the level of skill required to succeed in California was far more advanced than in Alaska. “It was humbling, which in the long run was a good thing,” he says.