Visual Effects Director Jonathan Hohle is the architect of Denali's vast digital mountainscapes and raging storms. With an extensive background in visual design, Jon has designed and directed numerous animated shorts and multi-element computer based projects. Jon's stunning early conceptual tests convinced Dustin and Bob of the project's feasibility and launched it into pre-production. With perhaps the most pivotal task on the production team, Jon draws all the pieces together and completes the illusion initiated by dozens of others.

"What I do is lay the visual groundwork for a shot, but I do it after it has already been photographed." Jon says, "It's a kind of retroactive set construction or production design. All the shots are storyboarded, true, but it doesn't become real until I work it. I give context to the action in the shot in the same way the writers have given context to ideas and feelings in the script."